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hey yall,

2 large bundles from australia arrived today, expertly packed, and containing much flamey tassie blackwood flavoured goodness, i just finished resawing the billets, and ended up with 8.5 awesome sets and headcap/binding/rosette material, really excellent stuff, i will take some photos later, just needed to get away from my saw, i was going in resaw psychosis,

just to be a PITA i also resawed a billet of ultra zoot quilted sapele, and ended up with 4 very nice sets, pics to follow.......... i know..... i am a circular muscle controlling the output of the bodies waste, but i just love wood

Man Brinks must be mad at you for knocking off all those trucks.... I'm
seriously jealous of your stash..

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Your gonna make me cry.......stop it charlie .......sniff,
Lucky duck! Good on you!

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Charlie charliewood38813.6260069444

Hi Paddy

Are you planning to sell tonewood ? Or is this for your own building ?

Russ

this is really for my own building,

i do sell sets occasionally, but to be honest it is hard enough getting hold of good stuff let alone having to constantly find it for other people,

paddy

All you Eur guys are hoping he's planning on selling tone wood I bet.

Thanks goodness for you Paddy, someone has to keep those tonewood guys in business.

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Nice score Paddy! Now please...stay out of the cider while you're on a re-sawing roll

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Napa, CA
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Love to see pictures. I'm waiting on my shipment and the waiting is killing me! Just need a quick vicarious thrill...

Kevin

Please post pic's when you can. Great score, Paddy

here come the pics



sapele first



then the black acacia



the zootcave!!



tops and archtops



mostly electric stuff, and a whole load of macassar in the front waiting to be turned into 4pc backs and sides



one messy shop!!



and this is the inlay i posted a couple of weeks ago in its final resting place, i was quite happy with it!

Paddy, no more for you. You are cut off sir. I think there needs to be an intervention.   

No seriously, that is an amazing stash of wood. You could make some termites very happy!

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Joe Breault
Merrimack, NH
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Paddy, your awesome zootcave looks more like a lumber store! Good on ya!

BTW, nice inlay job!

You make me sick - in good way .
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Charliewood

Holy smokes!

Hey Paddy, do you sticker the wood at all?

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hey arnt

i sticker fresh stuff, and then any stuff i want to build with i sticker for a few months, but i really dont have space for stickering it all, the room is kept at a constant 42-45% RH

paddy

Wow...that's some of the nicest Black Acacia I've seen. Great color and flame. Great score, and I'm sure it's a great advertisment for Australian Tonewoods!
Paddy, you really won't be able to build that many guitars in your lifetime you know......

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i'm gonna give it a shot don,


and if not i'll be having one heck of a retirement sale on the OLF in 2066!!!

Paddy, your zootcave looks like a pic from Allied or LMI's catalog. (shaking head and muttering...it's just not fair, it's just not fair)

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Dave Rector
Rector Guitars

And my wife gives me a hard time for having a lot of wood! I can't wait to show her these pictures.
Many thanks for the proof that it's not just me.

Steve

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Dang Paddy! That's one monster stash! Good on ya!

[QUOTE=John Mayes] Man Brinks must be mad at you for knocking off all those trucks.... I'm
seriously jealous of your stash..[/QUOTE]

I have to remind you guys that the biggest cash robbery in UK history, $93m, took place just down the road from Paddy, and most of the money has still not been recovered! Now I'm not saying there's any connection.

Colin

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[QUOTE=JBreault] Paddy, no more for you. You are cut off sir. I think there needs to be an intervention.   

No seriously, that is an amazing stash of wood. You could make some termites very happy! [/QUOTE]

That's the good thing, we don't have termites over here!!

Colin

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No termites perhaps, but you obviously have some pretty efficient burglars.

Say, what was your address again, Paddy?

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