Unboxing cut offs from NWTimber. Best Cut offs purchase yet. Beautiful wood for beautiful projects 

Wow! Skyler you're amazing!! Thank you so much for doing this video, we appreciate your shout out and support. As for the species of wood in the boxes, we only carry a few native species, they are going to be western "Claro" walnut, eastern cherry, myrtlewood and Western Big Leaf maple.

I feel so fortunate we have the most wonderful hardwoods store just a mile from my house. Every exotic you could ever ask for. And a whole section of smalls and cutoffs at very reasonable prices.

Skyler, you really have a knack for finding beautiful wood, can’t wait to see how you transform them!

I bought a box of exotics online, rather disappointing for the money laid out, then I discovered church- run thrift stores. They usually have a good selection of exotics that are fashioned into shelfs, plaques, awards, etc. You can pretty much tell you've got a nice hunk just by the heft alone, and the fun part is they are usually $1-2 bucks each.

That "flash of light" is called "Chatoyance" which is a French word for the effect of Tiger Eye gems.

Thank you for the nice and informative video!

Great job. Thank you 😊

Very nice wood Skyler.

😅I just watched this post and enjoyed it. Thank you for posting it. I will need to check out thier site

thanks

really nice pieces, i ordered 2 thank you

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I really would like a video detailing how you would really pop the figure on that quilted maple.

Skyler that maple is absolutely gorgeous. Also on cleaning the wood, I am in Texas and was given some very dirty mesquite that I cleaned with a brush and some compressed air. Good luck 👍

Looks to be big leaf maple an abundant species in the nw

I just checked their website. The mystery boxes have increased to $150. 😮

That is super-cool. I didn't know such a thing existed. Beautiful wood.

Beautiful wood.Thank You😇😇😇

Believe that more open grain wood with the ribbon may be Anigre. had to identify some of those without actually evaluating the cell structure on the end grain. But some very nice quilted maple!

may sound weird, but I find that smelling the wood often helps ID the species of tree

It's hard to believe they used to burn quilted wood instead of use it. They thought that the figuring made the wood unusable for furniture.

Mystery wood.. mahogany maybe?

At $135 per box, that's kinda pricey per board foot, especially for the box that's mostly black walnut. The quilted maple is stunning. 8)

Those are beautiful pieces! Hope the store is doing well ☺

That maple looks stunning I’m looking forward to seeing what it looks like with finish on it

How long where those pieces?

Hey Miss Sky! I know you usually use thinner pieces of wood. With these thicker pieces will you mill them down or resaw them? I went to their website and the prices of "Mystery Wood" seemed pretty affordable. Thanks for the info! One more question though... where's Grover!

Quilted maple box with walnut trim would look cool.

Handsome woman.

To clean the wood you have a few options, you can use high pressure hose and dry the wood again( I wouldn’t go that way because they are too small) Or you can sand blast it with glass bead, probably the best way (the way I do it) or you can sand it/ use a die grinder or just leave it the way it is. Depending on what you want to do with it. If you’re using it with resin, I’d recommend a pressure pot to shrink the bubbles and to seal the burl first so you don’t get a heap of bubbles.I find clear resin to be the best as colour resin hides all the goodness in the burl. Everything i said is just my opinion and you should do what you think is best.

Thanks for the tip. I had not found this supplier yet. Also, the fancy name you were looking for is "chatoyance". 🙂

Very nice wood! I might get one of those boxes myself….also hope you’re doing better after your surgery! 😊

I do quite a bit of epoxy. I recommend beginning with something small, like filling a crack, or knot hole, or void. I just use masking tape on the back side, well overlapping the hole or void. If on an edge I use masking tape backed with a strip of wood. Epoxy is like trying to contain thick water, It will find every little crack or hole to run out. If it is thick or deep hole do it in steps. Epoxy is full of bubbles after its mixed. I use a heat gun to pop the bubbles. If you pour to thick some of the bubbles get trapped, or worse come to the surface long after you think it is all good. I try to limit it to about 1/4 to 1/3 inch thick, pop the bubble and then add more. Be sure to put it all on a sheet of throw away plastic, good idea when mixing. The color dye is added after you mix, It takes a good 12 hours to set, so you have quite a bit of time to work with it. I let the surface be messy as it can be sanded or planed much like wood, but wait 24 hours before you do that. Be sure to work in a well ventilated area at the fumes are pretty bad, at least for me. Lots of good ideas on Utube.

the wood your wondering about is myrtle wood, very very pretty. I have made some tables out of much bigger pieces, but all the little noods on there, i have always left alone, poured epoxy right over them. Not saying thats what everybody should do, just one guys thoughts.

Thanks!

I forget the details, and I could remember it all wrong. You'll need to put the wood in a vacuum chamber, in a bath of a special type of resin, which will replace all of the air with resin. Then, I think you bake it for a bit. You'll need to look it up. But you want to get all of the air out of the wood, or you'll have those annoying bubbles.

Beat the Grover this time!

I'm sure we will see you use up all that wood within the next six months or less. Would hate for you to join our club of those who buy wood only to sit around for years. Ha

That yellowish could be poplar... I can't really tell...

$135 a box ? No thanx !!

tiger maple?