Matthew Morris
08-27-2012, 5:41 PM
Friends and fellow wood butchers, I need your help.
After 10 years away from dad's (aka Don Morris) woodshop I've decided to get back into it and build a couple of cigar humidors (one for me and one for a close friend getting married). I am planning to build them based on the plans provided by Rick Allyn at Fine Woodworking...in short, nothing too advanced.
I would like to make them out of Spanish Cedar veneered with some type of darker wood with figures (for example, burled walnut).
I can find decent supplies of Spanish Cedar local to me here in Rockville, MD. Unfortunately, it doesnt look like it is kiln-dried and that scares me for future sap release. No worries though, I can deal with that. What is harder to find is a good supply of burl veneers to choose from. I can buy them from Woodcraft on-line but there is no guarantee the sizes will be large enough for me to use. I can buy large 2x8 sheets from the local exotic lumbar yard but then I'm paying a lot for veneers that arent figured.
So where are people buying from these days? Are there on-line specialists or some other avenue I'm missing?
Warm regards,
Matthew
After 10 years away from dad's (aka Don Morris) woodshop I've decided to get back into it and build a couple of cigar humidors (one for me and one for a close friend getting married). I am planning to build them based on the plans provided by Rick Allyn at Fine Woodworking...in short, nothing too advanced.
I would like to make them out of Spanish Cedar veneered with some type of darker wood with figures (for example, burled walnut).
I can find decent supplies of Spanish Cedar local to me here in Rockville, MD. Unfortunately, it doesnt look like it is kiln-dried and that scares me for future sap release. No worries though, I can deal with that. What is harder to find is a good supply of burl veneers to choose from. I can buy them from Woodcraft on-line but there is no guarantee the sizes will be large enough for me to use. I can buy large 2x8 sheets from the local exotic lumbar yard but then I'm paying a lot for veneers that arent figured.
So where are people buying from these days? Are there on-line specialists or some other avenue I'm missing?
Warm regards,
Matthew