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As the name implies, i am an avid wood collector / woodworker. I have been in the Luxury furniture and wood art making business for several years. Recently i got bitten by the Bitcoin bug and over dinner with my wife tonight we figured out that since Bitcoin'ers are all over the world, and love making bitcoin, that mixing my passion with my new obsession might be a fruitful and fun adventure.

What i am looking for:

Exotic wood from; Africa, Hawaii, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, India, Morocco, Laos, Central America, South America, and many other places.  
Domestic featured wood from the USA: Naturally Spaulted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalting), Ambrosia Maple, Burl, or other "featured/figured" hardwoods woods.


What i am proposing;

In America where i live there are few suppliers that have ready access to a lot of exotic woods that i like to use, as where knowing people in the regions where these trees grow puts them within reach. I learned quickly a few years ago when i made a few old friends in Hawaii that it was 300% more cost effective for me to have them simply cut down a tree in the woods behind their house and ship me a chunk of it to the mainland then it was for me to go through a broker. A list of the woods i use most often can be found HERE (http://www.exoticwood.biz/woodchart.htm) and if you live somewhere in the region any of them grow i probably have a use for your services.

As most of the products i make are turned on a lathe, it makes more sense for me to have round chunks of tree rather than boards as there is a lot of work in matching grain when gluing boards. So literally what i am looking for is chunks of trees, or "logs" as we call them here. Usually 24" in length with an average diameter of 6-12".

What i would like do do is pay you in BTCitcoin for a chunk of wood that probably grows less than a few miles from your house if not right in your back yard and have you ship it to me. Escrow is required for both your protection and mine until we have done enough transactions that we feel comfortable in trusting each other, and any trusted forum escrow is fine by me.

A few stipulations;

1: some trees are protected in certain regions and not in others, i will not buy logs from protected trees in protected regions.
2: as freight charges are based on weight i ask that you find a dry cool place to store the log chunk for 1-2 weeks until some of the moisture drys out of it to reduce its weight.
3: If you have bulk access to a species of exotic tree, ( Like Mango wood in Hawii ) i am very much interested in buying bulk lots and having them freighted in.
4: On occasion if the wood i am purchasing from you is a higher end exotic wood, i may request a photo of the end grain from both sides of the cut.
5: If you wont agree to escrow, it had better be because you are sending me free wood as i will not transact in BTC on this forum without escrow unless i have known you and been doing business with you for a long time.

For transparency and to avoid answering the same questions multiple times, lets please keep communication in this thread not PM's for the most part.

Oak
Birch
Pine
Cedar
Maple
Hornbeam
Hemlock
Spruce
Hickory
Aspen
Alder
Ash
Basswood
Walnut
Poplar
Beech

i have steady access to them if i needed them but as they are not rare i do not use them often

Wood i will only buy domestically.

Plum
Osage Orange
Mango
Lemon
Lime
Cherry
Palm

By chance do you sell items made from these exotic woods?

Sure do, also make things custom to order, Vases, Bowls, Lamps, Tables. Even made a chandelier for a celeb last year out of Grade 5A KOA wood. Did you have something you were looking for? or were you just Inquiring as a generality?

I would love a BTC made of some exotic wood...something to hang on my office wall or on my desk etc..

Do you have a site or gallery of your past work? Esty?

I live in New Zealand, let me know what woods you are after and I can arrange shipment when funds are in escrow.

I can also help you source from Laos & South East Asia as I lived there for a time.

I live in Sweden. Don't really know anything about wood.

But let me know if I can help you

Did you have a particular wood in mind? What size would you like it? What sort of budget do you have? I have a LARGE selection of woods on hand from something that would cost you $25 usd, all the way up to Bois de Rose which would run you about $500. for a 1 foot tall BTC. If you can give me rough dimensions on how large you want, and a budget i can send you a list of woods that i can do it for in your budget.

i can get you some Good Viking SWEDISH wood :)
PM for what you want and i'll check if i can get it :)

Are you interested in kiln dried smaller pieces of milled material at all? I have some Teak, Wenge, Lace, and Zebra Wood laying around. Most of it is .75" thick with varying widths.

I am always looking for Kauri from NZ, The living Kauri is protected, but fallen Kauri are fair game, and buried or ancient Kauri would be a serious strike if you could find some.

Any Burl from Laos is always a nice treat, although sourcing them is near impossible due to shipping, so if you have an inside track on that i would be greatful.

From the Southeast Asia region comes one of my two favorite woods, Red Narra and my absolute favorite wood in the world Beeswing Narra, i have found the  Beeswing Narra from Vietnam has the best coloring.


There are not a lot of exotic wood species that grow in Sweden. About the only one i have ever imported is either figured or burl Olivewood. If you have access to some i may be interested.


It's going to sound crazy but i have spent years building a sort of "brand" by being hard to gain access to, the only reason i get people seeking me out and paying top dollar for my work is because its one of those you have to know somebody deals. The more out of reach something or someone is the more desired their work is if that makes sense.

I do however have a giant collection of photos of my work saved, i just dont publish them for the above reason. i would be more than happy to send you some images if you are interested.


Possibly depends on the endgrain's. Would it be possible for you to take a picture of what you have so i can look through it? Where do you live so i can calculate shipping if there is anything i am interested in.

This looks like a great thread. Wouldn't you need a lot of wood if its for woodworking?
How would you be taking care of shipping?

Yes, i go through roughly 1.1 million a year in exotic woods, so to say the least its a lot although sometimes a single piece of rare wood can cost upwards of $30,000.

Shipping depends on the quantity, 1 piece 6" by 24" is small enough to be boxed up and shipped via, UPS, DHL, FedEx or whatever is in your country. If you have access to bulk quantities i would look into the cheapest freight service i can find to transport it. I would by anything from a piece up to a ISBU shipping container load if the wood was right so shipping varies depending on quantity   

How can you ensure the wood you are selling hasn't been obtained illegally?

He is not selling, but buying wood from people all over the world.
Even if it was obtained illegally and he made products  from it,  I don't see why he would get into trouble for selling them.

I'm from South Africa :) I can try to help.

Not sure about the legality question, but just came across an article, about someone being fined from importing wood from Madagascar and India.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-08-07/news/33083866_1_gibson-guitar-corp-exotic-wood-india-and-madagascar

If a wood species falls under the protected list, i would require a copy of the permit used for harvesting it, if it is protected in only certain regions i would require a copy if you were shipping from that region. If not shipping from that region, just a signed statement that you did not obtain the wood from a region where it is illegal to harvest.  


Not entirely true, If i knowingly bought a piece of wood which is protected and did not have a copy of the permit used to harvest it, i could be in serious hot water. Gibson guitar and Lumber Liquidators have both felt the wrath of the Lacy Law which protects against import of illegal harvested wood. Although if i had a copy of the permit, and the seller faked it, although the wood would be confiscated, the seller would be facing charges i would only get a fine for possession of it which in most cases is rather small.



You sir just became my favorite forum member, about 80% of my favorite woods come from south Africa. Are you familiar with your local trees and know whats legal to harvest or do you need a list? Do you own a chainsaw? and are you close to someplace to ship from?

Well I don't chop trees myself  ;D I do live near a place where I can DHL goods, but it's quite pricy. As for the wood, I know someone that might be able to get whatever sort of wood you're looking for, so do let me know :)

http://www.exoticwood.biz/woodchart.htm

^ check that list, if it comes from Africa and you can get it legally i am interested. Especially in any dark red Padauk you can find.

Well I won a charity auction and got Casascius's Orange BTC several months back (The one you see in every picture/video of him). I would like it to be similar in size. Here are some links to what I am talking about:

http://www.wired.com/2013/12/casascius/

http://bitcoinexaminer.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/mike_caldwell-1.jpg

It is 12" tall and around 9" wide

I am thinking price wise around 1BTC or so? I am not really sure what wood I want, but I want it to be really unique!

https://i.imgur.com/4FjOk8W.jpg

okay cool. I will definitely let you know! Just a bit slammed with work, but as free time picks up I'll look out for you. Well keep in touch ;)

How much would something like that be with "Cocobolo" wood?

Absolutely can be done!

In your price range i could do something in any of the following

Bloodwood (http://www.wolfandtiger.com/sitebuilder/images/bloodwood_bowl-550x377.jpg)
Padauk (http://www.jtpercussion.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/padauk2.jpg)
Cocobolo (http://www.beckerguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/cocobolo-roller-front-body-angle.jpg)

I think the above 3 would make the best end result because of their natural turning.

I would do something a little more decorative besides just a plain BTC cutout though, some rounding and edging, maybe a little scroll work or carving. Something to make it art, not just a shape. Let me know if any of the above woods strike your appeal and i will work on getting something done in the next two weeks. If you end up not liking it yourself i am sure someone else will buy it so i wont require the funds in escrow until you decide that you like the piece.
 

I am thinking Cocobolo with that nice finish on it. I agree it needs to be a little more fancy. I bought the orange BTC because it is a one of a kind signed item from Mike/Casascius (plus it is pictured all over).

Consider it done, i will head out to the warehouse tonight and find a good piece of Cocobolo with deep grain, give me about two weeks and i will have some pictures for you. I have a new found obsession with BTC so being the first bitcoin themed piece i have ever done i want it perfect and working with such a hard wood that means it takes time for intricate details. Please message me your contact info so i can keep in touch with updates for you.

I love this idea.  Unfortunately I don't think there is much exotic wood here in western Canada. 
That said, WoodCollector, have you thought about selling exotic wood for bitcoin on here as well?

I spend 90% of my days looking for exotic wood for myself to use in art pieces, the thought of letting any go after the time spent getting it is hard to bear.

I have received a ton of messages though of people interested in commissioned pieces related to bitcoin and bitcoin themed works, so i think i may spend a month or two and design some Bitcoin inspired pieces to auction off here on bitcoin talk. Maybe donate some of the proceeds to Seans Outpost and Satoshi Forest or another reputable charity.

What do you guys think would be a good target price range if i were to do something like that? I have wood ranging from $25 Padauk to $40,000 a foot legally obtained Mpingo so i could make pieces from $200 to 1 million dollars. Although i highly doubt anybody would pay a million dollars for a bitcoin themed art piece.

I think it's a good idea to show a portfolio in your first posting as a proof for your skills.

Not a bad idea. I think later i am going to start a new thread for some sort of auction or something like that. This thread was really to find people around the world who can get access to exotic wood and ship it to me.

This would be my suggestion, we recently set them up to accept bitcoin.

http://www.womenscentrecalgary.org/donate/donate-with-bitcoin/ (http://www.womenscentrecalgary.org/donate/donate-with-bitcoin/)

Excellent! If you want to get real fancy an do some sort of inlay using 2 types of wood that might cool also. I don't want any details until it is done...just keep it $200 - $400 range and impress me.

I've been sketching for over 30 minutes now, being my first commissioned bitcoin piece it will for sure be over the top and impressive.

Do you need any wood from Romania? Let me know and I might help you:)

Sounds good...I can also offer up a Silver Wallet to store some coins on too!

I'll take a nice wooden BTC that I can hang on my office wall, too.
Let me know if you have a list of wood (with pics) that I can choose from and an estimate for each.

Thanks.

Romania consists 40% of birch trees, and other common species make up the other 60%. But if you can find any good spaulted hardwood or nice burl chunks i am always buying those from the world over.

The most complete list of woods on the web with pics that i have ever found can be found HERE (http://www.wood-database.com/)

One of the best lists of exotic woods i have found is HERE (http://www.exoticwood.biz/woodchart.htm)

It would take a month to list prices on all of them. If you can give me a rough estimate on size, height and width i can narrow it down, further if you want exotic wood, rare wood, or common wood that narrows it down more, then if you can tell me what colors of wood you like and grains (burl, spaulted, turned, eyed, long grain, fine grain, etc.) i can narrow it down further, then finally a budget you want to stay within, then i can give you a more reasonable list to select from that should allow you to find something you'll love in the price you want to pay.

Updated OP to include

Domestic featured wood from the USA: Naturally Spaulted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spalting), Ambrosia Maple, Burl, or other "featured" hardwoods woods.

Hi

I am in Vietnam, have a friend who owns a wood work factory - what wood do you want from Vietnam, quanities etc

Thanks

Are you interested in any irish bog oak? i have seen people make some nice things with it.  i have a big piece about 3 feet tall ??

Hell yes !!!, is it a board, log, live edge? can you send me a picture?

its a big log and is very heavy i think shipping would be dear but i will upload pics very soon and you can see and we can talk then :)

Sounds great, if it is a good log i can have it freighted, if you live in Ireland i have a friend who can meet you at the ulysses car ferry with a truck and he will add it to a shipment he is sending me. 

Heres some pics , there off my mobile not the best quality  :-\

its roughly 4-5 feet tall.

https://i.imgur.com/j1dXzb6.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/t9IUZB7.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/m1XKyWN.jpg

Beautiful, Not as wide as i would have expected though, but still usable. Small enough it should be able to be sent via DHL or FedEx at least. Could you get a shipping quote from your local service? How much do you want for the log? i'll message you my details so you can get a quote.

Thanks to all who got me wood last week, most of it has arrived already  :) !!!!!!!

I am back buying again and am especially interested in wood from Africa, Central or South America, or Hawaii this week as my stock levels are getting very low.

I am very excited for the piece that I have being created. At first it was going to be a nice and simple BTC, but now...something really special. I cannot wait to see it completed and post some pics! This should be an AMAZING piece of art...be prepared to be amazed!

Anything from Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma?

What do you have access to? Its impossible to say without knowing what you can get. There is not much in the way of exotic wood in Vietnam, but Thailand, Cambodia and Burma have a ton of species of exotic trees some quite valuable if you have the permit to cut them. If you can get me a list of things you can get either yourself or through your friends shop i can tell you what i would like to buy.


I think i may be more excited than you are at the moment, Its not every day that i get to cut into a chunk of one of the rarest pieces of wood on the planet and i am even more excited that it is getting turned into Bitcoin art. This will for sure go down in history as one of the most expensive pieces of Bitcoin art ever created and it couldn't belong to a better person than you. I cant wait for the day to see a picture of it on display in your house and maybe years down the road in a Bitcoin Museum.

I just wish I had the impulse control to not go way way over my "oh lets keep it to around 1BTC budget"  :P I can not wait...like I said no more details until it is done!!

Interesting proposal, WoodCollector!

Like Miffman, I'm in South Africa but the northern part. I'll see what wood I can get and let you know.

They're not on your list of exotic woods, but would you be interested in Imbuia or Jacaranda? We have these Brazilian species here.

That would be awesome, i have worked with the Rose Jacaranda before, Imbuia would be nice too if you could find some figured pieces.

I'd be interested in commissioning your services in the near future for a few smaller jobs. If you're willing, please send me some image samples of your work.  :)

There will be a few examples on BTCtalk soon as a few people have commissioned work from me including a $14,000 amazing art piece for Blazedout419. If you want something sooner send me a message with your e-mail address and i can get you some pictures.

Just so you are aware, i ONLY work in exotic wood, and "smaller jobs" for me is usually $500 - $1000, although i have done a few $150 pieces that required little time or effort and were made out of the lower end of exotic woods. My typical commission is between $1,000 and $250,000, and i have just been commissioned by a dozen guys on this forum to make them BTC wall art and one of them an exotic wooden bong with a bitcoin theme so i am now booking out two months from now for work.

Oh my. Well then I guess that leaves me no longer needing examples. I'm just a poor boy from a poor family.

Great, I'll see what's available locally. My city, Pretoria, is famous for its Jacarandas although I believe they're considered an invasive species. I'll see what can be had!

In my search for more exotic types, I got in touch with Fungayi, a woodcarver in Zimbabwe. I've worked with him previously and displayed some of his handiwork in this thread. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=266217.msg2847364#msg2847364)

Fungayi recommends and works mostly in Mahogany, Ironwood (not sure of specific tree) and Kiaat (Pterocarpus angolensis) and can get these woods in quantity if you want them.

As for the varieties on the Griffin Exotic Wood page; he can get Tambootie pretty easily. Mopane he can get but must travel further for it. Olivewood he thinks he can get but will have to check. Pink Ivory he doesn't know at all but may be able to find it if he makes enquiries.

Please let me know which types are of most interest to you and in what quantity - I'd suggest a smallish quantity to start. If you make an offer in USD that will also help me greatly in my negotiations with Fungayi. He wants partial payment upfront for transport, labour and equipment - I'll happily cover these costs once the Bitcoin are in escrow. I don't forsee any major logistical problems as Fungayi has been transporting carvings from Zim to sell at the Union Buildings in Pretoria for many years.

Lets get a list together of what you for sure have access to and we can work on pricing and getting an order in. Its hard to just give a price as different figure and grain determines price a lot so to just give a price would have to be the lowest possible price for the lowest grade of that spices.

Usually for people to have a regular supply i have them milled down to either 4"x4" by 14" pieces of stock or 8"X8" by 24" pieces of stock, as they are easier and more cost effective to ship larger quantities. That requires either someone with a large band saw, or their own saw mill. Also for larger orders the wood must be air dried out of the sunlight for 2-3 weeks prior to shipping as the water weight alone on even a small order can add $400 to the shipping cost.

As for pink ivory, you will not find any. Firstly its protected as it is on the top 4 list of most expensive and rarest woods on the planet, secondly it requires a few thousand dollars in permits to harvest legally. This i know as i just ordered an $8,000 piece of Watermelon Ivory ( an even more rare form of pink ivory) from south west Africa and the paperwork required to get it through customs was INSANE. Its not illegal to posses, you can get permits to harvest it for a pretty price tag, but it is very illegal to ship without paying about 4 different duties, 3 different taxes, half a dozen permits, and you have to provide a 1" square sample of the wood being shipped as customs requires it to be lab tested to verify its origin, age, legality.

I have more Mahogany than i could ever use as it is not ultra rare, unless you can get Indian Mahogany, I use some Ironwood, but only the darkest and closest to black as i can get. I do use Kiaata a bit mainly in turned wood projects. Only the reddish spices of it though, the blonde and yellow variants are as common as northern pine in America. Here (https://i.imgur.com/iIu9hn1.jpg) is a bowl made from Jacaranda, Mahogany, and Kiaata. The bowl on top is the Type of Kiaata i would be interested in. The darker the better, This piece (https://i.imgur.com/JUNQPK0.jpg) is made from a prime example of the type of Kiaata i would purchase.

Work on getting me a total list of what you can get. Let me know if you have someone who can mill it down to the lengths listed above, and then we will work on getting some prices together. If you can get high quality well figured cuts i would be willing to purchase $5k to $50k of product once i figure out the most cost effective shipping options.

can you make me a bitcoin symbol sculpture out of some fancy exotic wood blocks and gloss em up. if you can build it and make it look incredible (maybe the base to a lamp?) then i'll buy it.

I can, but i would need more specifics. I dont do complete lamps myself due to insurance regulations and all that added expense but i could make a base for one and you could purchase the "guts" and assemble the lamp portion of it yourself with the pre-drilled wholes i can make for you.

I do have to warn you my inbox on BTCtalk is filling daily with requests for custom works so depending on the size, spices and budget of your project it could impact how soon i could get it done. I never anticipated that i would get so many commissions when all i really set out to do was buy some wood. If it keeps up like this i am going to have to hire someone to make me a website and just start cranking out bitcoin pieces. Personally if it were going to be a lamp i think rather than a sculpture, having a turned than carved base would give it a better overall durability and appeal.

If you can give me the info below i can work up something more specific for you.

Budget:
Preferred colors: (i.e. whites, yellows, reds browns, oranges, purples) that helps me narrow down the wood types
How soon you want it done:

Thanks again to all of you both selling me wood and commissioning custom work.

I can get all NZ woods, but do you mind PMing me the prices you are paying

shipping is bloody expensive

Let me know what you have access to and in what quantity and i will get you pricing. Unless you are a logger with a lot of permits some of the wood i use a lot from NZ will be off limits to you, so i need to know more about what it is you can get if not yourself, from someone you know who has all the stuff needed to get it legally.

Some parts of NZ have small clusters of Narra which is a wood i love to use and does not require a permit to harvest in NZ as it is considered invasive and they have tried many times to remove it from the country. It grows harder in NZ than Asia but is ultra rare because they have been trying so hard to eradicate it. 

I would also be interested in some Paulownia if you can find CLEAN well figured pieces, i would require that these be milled down to 4X4X14" pieces of stock as they hold a lot of water and shipping a log with bark still attached is not feasible. Also if you live near a coastal region i would be interested in some Pepper Tree blanks in the same size as above. I do have a regular shipping company in NZ so if you lived near the Waikato or Hamilton you could just drop them off and they would ship them and bill my account, otherwise we could work something out

Thanks

Would you be interested in any wood from Nova Scotia Canada. We have Betula Alleghaniensis or yellow birch here and a few other rare hardwoods and my parents own almost 100 acres

Things i do not buy include (unless it is burl, spalted, curled, birds eye, or highly figured)

Oak
Birch
Pine
Cedar
Maple
Hornbeam
Hemlock
Spruce
Hickory
Aspen
Alder
Ash
Basswood
Walnut
Poplar
Pine

If it is not one of those, or it is spalted, burl, curly, birds eye or other high figure, i would be interested for sure.

I am meeting my friend for lunch this week - will see what he can get for you and let you know next week. He is collecting this wood at his workshop soon as well:

http://saigoneer.com/saigon-development/3162-photos-hcmc-begins-to-chop-down-old-trees-on-ton-d-c-th-ng

WOW!!!!! Red Indian Mahogany and the one photo has a giant burl growth in it. I would buy almost all of that. I have more Mahogany than i know what to do with but very little Red Indian. If you could have him mill out some 6"x6"x18" pieces of stock from that i would for sure buy some. Going market price on turning blanks in RIM is $36 a blank. I would pay $42 a piece and arrange shipping. If he can cut them, please ask him to spray paint both ends of the blanks with latex paint for me so they do not crack or check during shipment. Let me know how many he can cut.

OK, got it. I can certainly have it milled if we trade in bulk. I'm still searching for a good local source of Jacaranda and Imbuia, perhaps I'll also find other varieties. Here is the current list of woods I can get from Zimbabwe, in order of the easiest to hardest to acquire and transport to South Africa for international shipping:

Kiaat (red)
Ironwood (black)
Mopane & Tambootie
Olivewood

I've made it clear that you're only interested in specific, dark colours of Kiaat and Ironwood. Fungayi says this is assured if he sends only the heartwood, which will be free of other colours and imperfections ("checks?").

Some trees are on national park land and some on privately-held farms. Fungayi will obtain paperwork for any wood he cuts. He has the necessary permit to then bring the wood over the border into SA.

Fungayi has been working with wood for over 20 years so knows how to select only the best quality material.

He does not have his own transport or power tools. For larger quantities, he'll have to buy or rent a truck, pickup or even "scotch cart" (animal-drawn cart) and purchase a chainsaw and other tools. Finding labourers won't be a problem.

I suggest we start small and see how it goes. If everything runs smoothly, we can expand to shipping a container of any of the above woods (and perhaps source other varieties), milled to your stated dimensions. All these woods can be found in abundance.

To begin, Fungayi can bring me a log of Kiaat as darkly red and close to your dimensions of 24" x 6-12" (61cm x 15 - 30cm) as he can find. I will then dry it out and ship it to you, probably via DHL as I've worked with them before. The SA Post Office is not an option for shipping, as they're currently on strike (and unreliable in general).

Would you prefer a raw Kiaat log with the bark still on or the heartwood only? Given that, could you please let me know roughly what you'd pay for such a piece (excluding shipping) over the range of 6 to 12 inches in diameter? This will help me greatly in concluding a deal with Fungayi. I'll send a photograph before shipping and won't insist on the quoted price if the wood doesn't meet your expectations.

Hi, he text me back and said 6"x6"x18 are fine and he can provide as many as you need, he is buying the majority of the wood being chopped down by the city - drop me a PMH with details and I will discuss further with him when I meet him for lunch Wednesday. Thanks

I prefer milled stock for larger quantities, square cut to 4"x4"x14", 6"x6"x18" or 8"x8"x24" Below is some pricing assuming it is FAS grade lumber in order of size 4" 6" then 8" square cut

Red Kiaat: $14.85, $16.95, $19.71
Ironwood: $12.45, $15.88, $21.21
Mopane & Tambootie: Each piece needs to be graded to be priced so i would require a photo on each piece to grade it
Olivewood: He would have to have access to at least 50 trees in order to make it profitable for him to cut this. so lets leave this one out for now.

If you can have him square cut a piece of Kiaat to one of the above dimensions i will pay a little extra for a single sample just so i can ensure quality, Then if the quality is up to par i would like to order a small ISBU load of Red Kiaat which is roughly  1,000 pieces at 6x6x18" which would be $17,000 USD and i would arrange delivery of the container for him to fill and arrange having it picked up.

Both end grains on each cut would need to be spray painted with latex paint to ensure they do not crack during shipment, and each piece of stock would need to air dry for 3-4 weeks before being loaded into the container to cut back on shipping roughly 80 gallons of ground water from Africa to the United States.

If you live close to, or know someone who owns an orange or mango farm i am looking for mango and osage orange wood. Mango farmers typically cut down the trees every 7-15 years and orange trees when they get over grown. Please contact me and let me know if you have access and in what quantity and we can work out pricing on it. i would be interested in anything from a few pieces to a truck load.

This must be the most unique offer I've seen.

I live in Greece, I can get you any kind of wood you can think of from here. We have some of the nicest olive trees where I live.

Can you mill 6"x6"x18" square stock? If so i would be interested in some Olive Wood,  Also some Rose Wood if you have some that grows close to you.

Hi,

Have you made any work with black & white ebony that you can show?

I think I'm in love with that wood  ;D

How expensive is it?

Do you also make furniture or just smaller pieces?

I have worked with black and white ebony before, i did a few pool cue's for a clients sons birthday gift, and a dildo for a female client and her husband. I am sure i can dig up some pictures over the next few days.

Pricing varies, the wood alone depending on grade and size can get rather expensive. If you were talking you wanted a Pen or a Cigar tube for storing your cigar you would be talking $150 or so, A pool cue would run about $500-$800. A guitar body would run around $4,500, small table - about $8,000. Exotic species don't sell by the b.f. in most cases as it is harder to find larger pieces so the price of a larger single piece of the wood could fetch as much as 600% per b.f. than one half its size in some cases.

I have made functional art for clients in the past, Dining tables, Desks, end tables and coffee tables, Wine racks, etc. but again i only work in exotic wood and prices for functional art start at $5,000 for the most basic like a end table.

Ok all my South America friends, I need some blood wood (http://www.bellforestproducts.com/bloodwood/#.VGp9r8lAdNo) within the next 3 weeks, Let me know if you got some growing close to you, i will buy it wet if you can get it cut and milled to size.

So I was just shown my piece I commissioned...and WOW...just WOW. I had started out wanting a plain old BTC with a cool looking wood, and this is way more than I would have ever thought of! I will show it off once it is all the way done, but I am really happy with how it turned out.

What kind of wood have you chosen?

I told him to just surprise me and he selected Watermelon Ivory for it. The intricate designs on it are really amazing...I can only imagine how much time it must have taken him.

87 hours of carving to be exact  ;)

I'm getting it set up in the photo booth now, then it will be on its way to your front door.

Awesome!!

How much would you charge for an 10-12" tall about 1.5" thick BTC with a small base so it can sit on a desk probably want it out of zebrawood or white and black ebony with alot of black lines through the ebony?

Pics please!

I could do a roughly 12" by 9" by roughly 1.25" thick BTC out of zebra wood with a base for between $400-$500. That would be fully finished to1,200 grit with Anti UV sealer so the grain never fades and 2 coats of Polycrylic finish. That would be just for a standard BTC. If you want an Art piece, fully carved with fine detail it would be roughly $600-$1,800 depending on how extravagant you want it. Which blazedout419 will tell you is a hell of a deal as i did a full detailed art carving on his $14,000 piece made from the rarest wood on earth.

For black and white ebony, a standard 12" BTC will run you about $900-$1,000 If you live outside the USA shipping it to you is going to be expensive as most all forms of Ebony wood now require documentation when going through customs. For a fully carved in fine detail art piece in black and whtie ebony it would be $1,500 up to $3,000 depending on how extravagant you want it.

As with all pieces you will get a certificate of authenticity which uses the blockchain and vanity address to verify that it is authentic and made by me. The certificate normally ships 2-8 days after the piece does as it takes time to generate the private keys to match the address signed on the piece.

All funds must be placed in escrow prior to me starting work on the piece. I am ok with Blazedout419 or Tomatocage as escrow. 

Hmmm decisions decisions.  I could go either way tbh.  Do you have any pics of what your standard piece vs an art piece looks like just to see the differences?  I will probably go with an art piece though.  I will take this to PM after this message to not clutter up your WTB thread.

Thanks for that :)

Not cluttering up the WTB thread that is, much appreciated.

Hey WoodCollector, hope to have dry samples of each type of wood (including Rose Jacaranda and Imbuia) for you by the first week of December.

Thanks a ton Lagsalot, Let me know when they are dry and their dimensions and we can figure out a price / shipping arrangements.

Just commissioned a BTC art piece from WoodCollector.  

It will be a 12" Cocobolo piece with some carving detail.  The work will convey motion through space and time, will be able to stand on its own and as such should be viewable and enjoyable from 360 degrees.  

Transaction details can be viewed here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=865155.new#new).

Confirmed.

Thank you :)

Close to me are ohia trees. Got a mango tree and up in the mountains there are Koa trees. The Koa trees I believe people are not allowed to cut down. But I could look into it.

I'm on the big island of Hawaii.

PM me if interested.

Would love some mango wood, you are correct about KOA, you can only take the wood if the tree has fell on its own. Let me know if you can cut the mango, i would for sure like to get some.

Hi WoodCollector, some good news! Seems the guys he hired had pieces already cut and drying. Samples have been cut from these logs to your size of 8" square by 24" long.

Fungayi tells me has these logs: 5x dry Jacardanda, 5x almost dry Ironwood, 5x almost dry Kiaat and 2x wet Mopane.

Perhaps you'd be interested in a sample of the first 3? I think he'll also be able to arrange a picture of the Mopane when it's dry. Would you also want a pic of the Jacaranda for grading?

As for transport, DHL Zim said he'd need to bring the wood to their office in Harare (he is about 140 km away). This could be a small problem as he doesn't have transport.

DHL also mentioned the wood may need a fumigation certificate, although it seems to me this only applies to wooden shipping containers. Anyway, I think Fungayi will know where to have the wood fumigated but that might also present a transport problem.

It sounds like you have a good relationship with shipping companies, so if it's possible to arrange for a courier to collect the wood as well as check the size and type, that should guarantee everything goes smoothly.

As for the exact price, perhaps it's better discussed in private?

I would be interested in a sample of the Jacardanda and the Kiaat. The Ironwood is not high on my list right now but time to time i purchase some so i will take a sample of it now for future reference but i do not need it in bulk right now. Mopane i would be interested in dry.

I need an exact address as to where the 3 samples would be located at so i can call and see about shipping them, and when we get into larger orders i can have them picked up at that same location with larger trucks.

As for fumigation, it is not needed on Kiln dried wood, but if his is air dry he would probably have a better change of getting it kiln dried than fumigated. The bacteria and fungus they are worried about dies at 160 degrees F and a document from the kiln will get it through customs.

Send me the location of the wood in a PM and i will see what we can do to get it picked up, Once i get the shipping situated i will place the $65 in escrow with any trusted forum escrow of your choosing to be released upon confirmation of pickup. If the samples are up to par, i might make a flight over there after the first of the year to check out the operation and purchase a small vessel load of wood to be shipped back in person while i am there.

The vessel i have access to holds 20, 8x20' ISBU containers and i would need to be able to have all of them filled to make it profitable for me. The price on leasing the ship as a whole is the same no matter the weight so the wood could still be wet so long as the bark was removed (invasive spices act requires the bark to be gone to prohibit the transportaion of bark dwelling insects) If we were to divide the load equally 50% Kiaat, 25% Tambootie, 20% jacardanda and 10% ironwood, my estimate is the load would pay you guys $81,250 and would require cutting between 200 and 600 trees then squaring them up for shipment.

How much do you want?

How do you want it packed? I've never shipped wood I've cut down.

I'd take a dozen pieces @ 6"x6"x18" if you could get them. You have to either paint both ends heavily with latex paint, or melt some wax and paint it on with a paint brush to keep it from cracking, and if it hasn't been cut down for at least 6 months i would appreciate it if you could leave them to air dry once cut to size for a week or two.

For shipping, let me know the address of where you would be shipping from and i can check with all my freight companies i use to see who can get me the best deal. Typically people just package them all in a box for me and it helps if you load the box with dry sawdust so the wood does not split during shipping. You can PM me the address it would need to be picked up at.

Thanks

OK, that all sounds good. I'll contact him tomorrow morning my time and get his exact address and find out about the kiln drying. The wood is currently air drying in a shed but hopefully there's a kiln available.

I'd like to go with TomatoCage as escrow agent.


Sounds like an adventure! I don't think the number of trees or the work would be a problem, I'm more concerned about the security situation in Zim for foreign travellers. Looking into that.

Dont worry about security, i have my own and they will meet me in Johannesburg where i will be flying in to. I have made quite a few trips to Africa to pick up large shipments of exotic wood.

Ok. Assuming I can do all of that for you to your liking what would you be willing to pay (not including shipping costs)?

$17.50 each if they are just standard

$38.50 each if they are curly ( i would need to see photos of the curl to pay this price )

Transcendence is complete and can be viewed here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=868931.0

Transaction details can be viewed here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=865155.0

All shipments have arrived. Thanks guys!!!!

Looking for fruit woods this week. Mango wood, Apple wood, Apricot wood, Black palm and Banana Wood, Orange wood and any other fruiting tree you have access to.

Also looking for Blood wood & Black walnut as well this week.

BUMP !!!

Still looking for fruit woods this week. Need them to make some Bitcoin bongs with. Let me know if you can get some for me. Florida, California, Oregon, Hawaii. You guys have a lot of fruit trees growing in your regions.

I live in Hawaii. What kinds of wood are you looking for and the price?

Need anything from the north?  (Ontario)

Yes, Koa, Mangowood, Amboyna. ALWAYS


Maybe, do you have access to redwoods up there? There are not many in your area but they are there, and if you can get some i would be interested.

I will take a gander.

Still looking for fruit wood's guys, This is a great chance for some of you in the USA to make some BTC. There are a lot of fruit trees in Florida and California if you live in that area.

Anyone in central america? I am running low on Katalox. I need to get a few pieces of Figured Katalox out of your region and am willing to pay top dollar for it. $110 for a 6" x 6" x 18" turning block.

What kind of wood you want sourced from Sweden? I'm heading there for the new year :)
ps I love that transendence woodart !

do you need any woods from romania, we have lots of forest with many different woods, and what kind of woods your looking for?

It's best just to tell me what you can get and i'll let you know if i need it and how much i need.

Edit: Sent you a pm

romanian beech wood

Beech is the same on every continent it grows on. It takes a microscope to tell the difference. Have access to anything else?

hwave walnut trees and plum trees

Welll?

Those are again all trees domestic to the USA, The list of trees i do not buy is listed in the OP. Walnut is on that list. Plum is a domestic hard wood to the USA and i will only buy it domestically as there is no sense in paying a fortune in shipping for something i can drive a few hours and cut myself or have someone the next state over cut and ship for 1/10th the cost. .

I saw you do custom work.

I'd like a wood figurine of user Vod (will supply his facebook link so u can make it look like him) with nails, gasoline, on the wood and everything blowing up / burning up HUGE in a video that is made viral. I'll provide the SEO and viral-making of the video.

I want the Vod figurine made in wood to be of the worst and shittiest quality but most explosive / burning wood material out there. Please PM if you can do this and a price.

I HATE Vod.

I can make you a sculpture of someone, what you do with it after i make it is up to you. Starting price would be around $1,500 for a 8" tall head.

What about a demon or monster small wood head, simply carving nothing too detailed, and with the name Vod engraved to forehead? Using shit wood, wood that rots after a month would do.

LOL

I would just like to say thank you and happy holidays to all of you who have helped supply me with wood this past 2 months. Unfortunately at least for the next few weeks i am unable to get the BTC to place any significant orders. Coinbase has closed my account as they said that it is "suspicious" for me to have bought $1.5 million usd worth of Bitcoin on an account that is only 2 months old. I tried explaining to them that i buy wood from all over the world with it and even gave them my business info and they still ruled that i did not satisfy the KYC requirements.

As i do not trust any of the other exchanges like circle or bitstamp further than i can throw a Volkswagen and i have twice had people try and scam me on LocalBitcoins i am left dealing only with the few contacts i have made who will deal in cash and face to face transactions. At current i am barley able to exchange $20k a week into bitcoin which is heavily hindering my buying power from you all. I am in the process of trying to work out a deal with a large off book broker who lives relatively close to me through the dark market which will resolve this issue in the future but as part of due diligence i have hired a team of top investigators to try and track a small test transaction we have made via the dark market to see if it is traceable as if they cannot trace it, neither can the fed.

In the mean time for any of you whom would like to help out i have started a buying Bitcoin thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=903713) in which i will buy as much bitcoin as you can sell via Vanilla Reload cards. I am paying stamp rate for BTC only as i do not believe that i should have to pay a premium to be able to use bitcoin for commerce as that defeats the purpose of using bitcoin all together.

Unless i have messaged you and let you know already that i still need orders filled from you, i will have to suspend all other purchases until i can resolve the Bitcoin acquisition issue unless you are able to provide Kauri in large volume from NZ as i am still in desperate need of a supplier.

Again i would like to thank all of you involved whom have helped me acquire rare and exotic wood over this past 2 months, Thanks to you i have been able to re-stock one and a half of my 2 warehouses and purchase almost $1.7 Million USD worth of wood via this forum saving myself over $1 Million usd if i would have had to use Fiat and go through a broker. This truly is a great community and Bitcoin truly can be the future of commerce once someone solves the exchange issue with a confident solution.

Ok all you folks from NZ, i am looking for some Swamp Kauri wood and have about $80,000 in BTC to spend on it. Message me if you have access.

Do you think it would be viable to bring wood home from vacation overseas?
I'm not good with imperial units but if I have converted it correctly, the length of the logs should be around 60cm, correct?
60cm fits in a suitcase. But I suspect you are looking for larger quantities right? Not just one log.

Been traveling to Asia and Africa but never thought wood had any value.

Depends on what kind of wood, and if they are charging you by the pound for your luggage. There are some woods that would be very profitable for you to bring back if you got them at a reasonable enough price. Others it would take a truck load to be worth while.

You can always message me when you are there and let me know what you found and i can tell you if its worth it. I assume you live in the USA and you would be bringing it back here not shipping it from somewhere to the USA correct? Shipping a single piece of wood from anywhere outside the USA to me is seldom worth while.

I'm in Europe, I'm afraid.
I suppose it would make more sense to ship the wood from the country of origin directly to you. That way I could send more than one piece also.

Correct, most countries you will need a fumigation certificate to ship it to the USA, also some woods you will need to get a copy of the Forestry Permit if it is required for a particular species of wood.

Still looking for Swamp Kauri from NZ !!!!! Message me if you can get it in quantity.

Would you buy Koa and mangowood slabs or is it all logs?

Sorry i'm not exactly a Wood expert heh.

What is your price again as well?

Regular or curly?

Yes i would buy Cants or "slabs" as you called them if they were curly or flamed. I already have a good supplier in Hawaii for regular Koa and a fair amount of Mangowood.

Pricing on figured wood always varies by the amount of figure and the grade. If you can get large quantities (shipping container loads) i will fly out to meet you to inspect and grade the wood then give you a price and BTC payment in person. If you are talking smaller quantities i will buy on a Cant by Cant basis and will need a photo of each Cant to grade it and give you a price.

would you buy really old wood? my parents have a 200 yearold table which they get from their parents and they want to sell it

95% of the wood i buy ends up being turned on a lathe. Tables are usually not much more than 1" to 1 1/2" thick and by the time i were to plane it down to remove all the finish and get to the core wood which is still usable there is usually nothing left.

I buy cants, turning blanks,  live edge and whole logs. I really dont have much use for old furniture for recycling unless it is made out of something extremely rare like an African Blackwood piano that is scrap or a pink ivory chair or something along those lines.

Thanks for the offer though, it was nice that you were thinking of me when they mentioned it.

I have a farm in Putumayo region of Colombia. It is near Puerto Asis, so typically Western Amazonia flora. Are there any woods in that area that interest you? A lot of stuff comes from up from down-river too, since it is the last town with a road that connects to a port on the edge of the jungle.

I need this made. The red I would prefer if you can use manufacturered blood or use a redish wood to inscribe the letters V-O-D where placed in a fiery red color.

I would like the wood to be the cheapest wood you have and can make it detailed enough using such wood, it has to be flammable/burnable too. My goal is to make a video of me burning it and post it here to bitcointalk. If you could include a hole in the back so that I can put a firework or something cool too that'd be neat. Let me know via PM what the price would be for this devil sculpture and for shipping to the United States. This is a serious request. Thank you.

https://i.imgur.com/IEdfEnb.jpg?1

I'm pretty sure I can't help you out with anything in Northern Texas, but if there is let me know.

Looking for the following woods in bulk quantity for the next few weeks or until i find enough to fill the empty slots in the warehouse.


Mango Wood (http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/mango/): Can be found domestically in Florida or far southern California.
Tilia (http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/european-lime/) (AKA common lime wood): Can be found domestically in southern Florida in grove country.
Osage Orange Wood (http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/osage-orange/): Can be found in southern and central United States. (Not interested in any grown in Texas, Lousiana, or New Mexico due to the invasive species restrictions from the ICC)

NOTES:

Paying $15-$30 a pound for Burls from any of these tree species.
Paying $4-$12 extra per square foot for any of these species if you can find figured wood.

Standard prices are from $14.00 to $25.00 per blank @ 6x6x14 depending on quality.

Not interested in buying less than 10 blanks at a time.

All wood must be air dried for 3-4 weeks prior to shipment to dry off some of the moisture content to save on shipping.

All wood must be palatalized for shipment on a standard pallet.

Bonus "brokerage" fee paid if you can provide any of these woods in large quantity on a regular basis (more than 100 blanks at a time every 3-6 months)

I live in southern California, where would I go to collect/find/purchse Mango wood?  I'd be happy to supply you if I am able.

A lot of Vineyards have mango trees growing all over the place. Some of them might actually pay you to remove a few of them as they spread rapidly if not maintained and the fruit is allowed to fall. Also you can check with some of the fruit groves as well. Last time i found a forum member to get me some mango from South Cali he said he just went to a farmers market, found someone selling fresh mangos and asked them if they had any trees they wanted cleared. They actually put him to work for about 5 days cutting trees and let him keep the wood in place of paying him (mango trees are cut down every 7-15 years) He then found a local mill to cut the blanks from the fell trees that didnt charge him much and he ended up squeezing over $3,500 in BTC out of me for the haul. There are not a lot of Groves that have mangos in California but if you want to make a sizable profit from it finding one is a good way to go. Otherwise the vineyards are your best bet to find a small amount. Just keep in mind, i need at least 10 pieces of stock for it to be worth my while, and you need to have a place to let them sit to dry for a few weeks prior to shipment unless you find kiln dried wood or previously fell trees.

Right on, thanks for the info.  There are a lot of old vineyards around here, I'll poke around and see if any is around here.  I've got some land, plenty of room to dry wood.

Awesome, while your poking around you should see if any have Apricot, Lime, Orange, Fig, or Redwood trees too. I dont need them this month, but i go through a lot and might need some in the near future

Good luck ;)

Pricing:

Grade AAAA: $75usd a pound
Grade A:     $42usd a pound
Grade FS:     $24usd a pound

5 pound minimum.