I have often wondered why we never see exotic woods cut for extreme figure. For example, why do you rarely or never see a zebra wood burl or a purple heart feather crotch? Ditto for rosewood, bacote, ebony, bubinga, bloodwood, etc.
Obviously there is waterfall bubinga and certainly figured examples of some of those woods, but I've almost never seen them cut like american hard woods, e.g. crotch wood and burl. Wood is cut that way in Turkey, Europe, Austrailia, North American...why not South America?
Anybody know why? Surely a purpleheart tree has a burl right? And if waterfall bubinga sells for like a million dollars a board foot, why not dig up the burl? Wouldn't it be even better?
Even here in Colorado where hard wood doesn't grow very well, you can go to a gallery and find bowls made of burl and crotchwood from "junk" wood such as cottonwood and chinese elm.
Why are the very best parts of expensive exotic woods left in the dirt? Why wouldn't you cut a huge feather crotch from a rosewood tree and sell it as a conference table for a ton of money?
Just wondering....
Obviously there is waterfall bubinga and certainly figured examples of some of those woods, but I've almost never seen them cut like american hard woods, e.g. crotch wood and burl. Wood is cut that way in Turkey, Europe, Austrailia, North American...why not South America?
Anybody know why? Surely a purpleheart tree has a burl right? And if waterfall bubinga sells for like a million dollars a board foot, why not dig up the burl? Wouldn't it be even better?
Even here in Colorado where hard wood doesn't grow very well, you can go to a gallery and find bowls made of burl and crotchwood from "junk" wood such as cottonwood and chinese elm.
Why are the very best parts of expensive exotic woods left in the dirt? Why wouldn't you cut a huge feather crotch from a rosewood tree and sell it as a conference table for a ton of money?
Just wondering....