UK exotic hardwood suplier

Building/Repair
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Just found these guys in the UK, they have a great range of exotic hardwoods and in another section they do guitar wood blanks too.

I’ll eventually get round to trying them but thought it might be a useful reference for us.

http://www.exotichardwoodsukltd.org.uk/Wood%20Shop%20Welcome/Wood%20Turning%20Index/

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A very good resource for europeans, thanks for the info! :slight_smile:

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oooo thankies amanda :slight_smile:

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hmm my favourite of those is a janka scale of 995 is that decent?

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Thanks for the great link!

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personally i think anything over 900 is nice an cool

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African Padauk is around ~1700, methinks. Kouki is… ~3900? (Bloodwood is around ~3800, so can be a decent substitute)

Ooh! They have Snakewood?? Luckkyy…
Amanda, a snakewood bachi handle… When you are ready to make your signature bachi, use that. :slight_smile:

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I like the look of cocobolo (and the name is pretty cool!) supposed to be good for instruments and easy to work with and Janka Hardness: 1136.

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that snakewood IS pretty!
The cocobolo is another scrap i have to play with along with olivewood and some wenge/african ebony
there are so many i want to try!

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anyway thanks for that link I didn’t see koa but maybe I shall settle for something else I will check it out in detail or maybe I get off my lazy ass and seek out koa seriously sometime online . . . :wink:

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Three years ago I found this timber company in London, UK:
http://www.mosstimber.co.uk/index.php/products/hardwood/
I bought sonokeling (Indian rosewood grown in Indonesia).

I know one timber company in Finland. They have 40 different kind of exotic hardwoods. Last monday I bought padauk and veneer of kingwood. I paid 25€ for padauk of 1000mm x 160mm x 52mm.

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contacted them for koa and might order something they got in store anyway funny enough their “stick maker” section got standard measurements of pieces I could use . . . :slight_smile:

so again thanks for the link and that finnish company you mentioned Nick doesn’t have a website I guess?

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B H
Yes, they have website in Finnish. Unfortunately only the summary is in English. They told me that the padauk wood I bought has been in their storage (about +16C) for 15 years.
http://www.hakalanpuutukku.fi/summary-in-english
If you click “tuotteet” you can have an idea of the timber they sell.