[jsalk]

We just started working with a new batch of curly walnut veneer.  I have to say, this is about the most uniformly figured walnut I have seen.  It almost looks like fiddle-back maple dyed a dark walnut color (but it isn't).

Here are a pair of SongTowers done in it...



And a close-up...




Thought you might like to see it...

- Jim

[Brad]

WOW!

[mark funk]

WOW is right!


                                                                                                                                 

[Devil Doc]

I wonder what 5/4 planks of that stuff would cost? What a trestle table top that would make.

Doc

[WGH]

I wonder what 5/4 planks of that stuff would cost? What a trestle table top that would make.

Doc

Probably about $422 plus shipping. I have two beautiful book matched walnut planks from Horizon Wood Products I'm going to use for either a side table or very nice rack for my electronics. A table would need 4 planks, the wood I bought is KD 6/4 Walnut pc 2: 22.8bdft @ $9.25/bdft = $210.90.

Even though it is extremely risky unless the wood is bone dry, about 5% moisture content, a solid wood front baffle on Salk speakers is an amazing thing to behold. I have solid mesquite but walnut should work too.

Horizon Wood Products cuts logs into flitches and planks and has some outrageous planks. I am making all my kitchen cabinet Craftsman doors from a flitch of cathedral arched 4/4 white oak, some of the planks are 16" wide so there will be no glue lines in any of the panels.

This months special is figured cherry - here is some 4/4 they have on their website:


http://www.horizonevolutions.com/eshop/

http://www.horizonevolutions.com/index.html

Wayne

[audiogoober]

Probably about $422 plus shipping. I have two beautiful book matched walnut planks from Horizon Wood Products I'm going to use for either a side table or very nice rack for my electronics. A table would need 4 planks, the wood I bought is KD 6/4 Walnut pc 2: 22.8bdft @ $9.25/bdft = $210.90.

Even though it is extremely risky unless the wood is bone dry, about 5% moisture content, a solid wood front baffle on Salk speakers is an amazing thing to behold. I have solid mesquite but walnut should work too.

Horizon Wood Products cuts logs into flitches and planks and has some outrageous planks. I am making all my kitchen cabinet Craftsman doors from a flitch of cathedral arched 4/4 white oak, some of the planks are 16" wide so there will be no glue lines in any of the panels.

http://www.horizonevolutions.com/eshop/

http://www.horizonevolutions.com/index.html

Wayne

For quilted/curly/fiddleback walnut in bookmatched sets it would be more like $2000 and up....IF you could even find it in board thicknesses. Instrument grade lumber - especially walnut, is unbelievably expensive.

http://nwtimber.net/shop-all-wood-types/nwt7146a

[-Rooster-]

My set in this awesome veneer was cut and glued today! The project tracker is a double-edged sword...

[front242]

I am excited for you, Rooster.  I have a pair of Silks coming in the same veneer.  Stunning!

-John

[-Rooster-]

Here are a few shots of the SongTowers that I picked up from FedEx two days ago! Long wait, though it was well worth it. It's hard to believe that this veneer is "standard."

[Nuance]

Nice photos.  They look fantastic!

[Bob2]

Very nice!

[dhax001]

Absolutely nothing standard on those beauties!

Congrats on your purchase.


regards,
dhax001

[front242]

Rooster, my Salk Silks are on a Fedex truck somewhere between Michigan and California as I type this.  Your speakers look fantastic.  It won't be much longer for me.

[-Rooster-]

John, It's all worth it when you (carefully) tear into the shipping box. I look forward to seeing photos of my SongTowers' more sophisticated younger siblings once you receive them.

[billmcc]

Rooster,

Where did you get those glides/pads for the spikes?

Bill

[WGH]

Looks like the same glides I use, they are from Herbie's Audio Lab, $16.89 each and they are very nice.

http://herbiesaudiolab.net/spkrfeet.htm

[-Rooster-]

Those would be the ones. I haven't done any A/Bs, but the theory is sound and they keep the hardwood floor from getting destroyed.

[strat95]

Wow, from some angles it looks like your speaker is a solid log of wood!!

May they bring you hours and hours of joy!

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