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Random Observations on Rosewood

I have four orders– three of them are disgracefully old. I decided to concentrate, and cut them during this Waxing moon. I get so nervous, because the wood is expensive to purchase, and I feel that each of these wands must show my very best efforts. I guess I feel that way about all of my work, but Rosewood does show my efforts. Uncompromisingly, in some cases. It was a very sensorial adventure. This is a hard wood, with a very smooth and dense grain. It cuts like butter– Difficult, pissy, arrogant butter. It polishes itself. If I keep my…

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I love the lumberyard

  • April 10, 2008
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Yesterday I gave my son a ride to school (he normally takes the train), and that put me about ten minutes from Bonhoff Lumber, down on the far south side. Instead of going home and getting my coffee like a sensible person, I went there, looking for Ash wood. Bonhoff is a wholesale yard. I love to visit; There are stacks of boards twenty feet long and forty feet high, in an enormous hangar and a vast open yard. Two forklifts zip about all the time, picking up half-stacks and moving them here and there so that customers can choose…

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Truly Purple!

  • June 22, 2004

I Just got some new Purpleheart wood to make wands from. This wood comes from South America, and it really is purple! It is also very dense and strong- in Mexico, it’s used to make the big beams for factories. It’s incredible to think of this exquisite violet wood holding up big buildings The color of purpleheart will fade in time, to a warm brown- lovely, but not as amazing. If you use a wand of this wood, you must keep it out of the sunlight. I have a special UV-protectant finish that I use on my wands, that seems…

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