Stuff at the Sydney Timber and Working with Woood show

[graham mcdonald]

In Sydney for the weekend doing family stuff and went to the Timber/Woodworking show this arvo. One of the timber vendors selling Tasmanina timber has a few bits of King Billy and Blackheart sassafras about two guitars worth long and about 8" wide. They had a few bits of each, obviously cut sequentially and planed down to about 8-10mm thick. Two of the bits of KB were very nicely quartered and book matched and they wanted $45 each for them. What was annoying is that they seemed to have no idea that if the cut them so they finished them at 5mm, they could probably make more money selling the wood as guitar sets rather than bits for boxes. Still, worthwhile checking out if anyone is going out. There are also a couple of people I had not come across before bringing in Japanese chisels, saws, clamps and some very cool little planes who have a small stall which is well worth checking out. http://www.japanesetools.com.au if you can't get there.

Cheers

Graham