More about wonderful wood.The library cases pictured here are made from Honduras mahogany. It is a fine wood, grows straight and tall and large. For the most part, it gets processed poorly. Getting the most stick from each log. Why is that bad? Wood, to be useful and stable and to present the best grain needs to be sawn in a manner which has the grain of the wood running perpendicular to the widest edge [quarter sawn], or with the grain running parallel to the wide edge [plain sawn]. It seems simple enough, but to get the most stick, a log can be just cut with no regard of grain orientation, which is the way most wood is sawn today. Greed is enemy again.
Many woodworkers just don't care, and will use whatever piece for whatever purpose, as lomg as it can sell, no more thought is given.
However, the best will always choose the wood wisely, and the result is a project which will be beautiful and stable, and will stand the truest test, of time.
More tomorrow.
Wow, Edwin, you are turning wood into poetry!
ReplyDeleteThis is why your guitars and mandolins are made to perfection, poetry in motion. The instrument itself become the workhorse for poetry in sound. Beautiful pictures, both today's and yesterdays'!
Edwin, thank you for your comment. Every word is true, and if it inspires just one man to be a better Dad and leave your children with those kind of memories it would make me happy.
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