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Bloonose · **Joined:** Fri Jun 04, 10 3:30 am **Posts:** 80

Long time no post for me, too long a story!

Anyhow, HNY to one and all and to Tiny if you read this, hope your Missus is getting better mate!

I will be visiting the Boston Area in a few weeks time and will try to visit in Boston itself, any places I should go ? woodworking related of course !

Plus my actual question is, over here in the UK and from France we can get a type of Oak called Pippy Oak, lots of little knots all over it. I like to make things with it and want to try to make something when I'm over for a friend. So is it available there and if it is what's it called so I do not look like an edjit when in a yard asking.

Help appreciated
and here are some cabinets I made from it, plus the close up. Some nutcase thought they were marble or had some special paint effect applied when they were in the store for sale

Cheers guys

new york new york · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 12 7:39 am

Goes by the same name here , pippy oak or sometimes european oak. Very rare in solid but readily available in veneer.

Nice cabinets.

tiny · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 12 8:28 pm

Thanks for the good wishes, mate. The missus says thanks too.

Paul
the wee lad

Ronaldo · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 12 5:43 am

great expectations for "pip" oak :lol:

FLWoodRat · **Posted:** Tue Jan 10, 12 6:47 am

Perhaps, but can't you see Miss Havisham admiring those two boxes?

Bloonose · **Joined:** Fri Jun 04, 10 3:30 am **Posts:** 80

So nobody's gonna give me that look when I ask for it then? excellent ! but it's as rare as the ending to Edwin Drood...... :twisted:

No invites to workshops or visit ideas then?

The cabinets were all solid no veneer anywhere, FYI

FLWoodRat · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 12 9:13 pm

Blue,

Not sure WHEN your visit is. Of course if you are in Boston at the end of February, you definitely need to visit the WoodExpo2012 at the New England Home Show. You can find more information on the home page link.

Bruce

Bloonose · **Joined:** Fri Jun 04, 10 3:30 am **Posts:** 80

24th Jan till 7th Feb so will miss out on that which is a pity ! :cry:

Any other ideas appreciated

Gonna look for some tool stores to visit or failing that get some things sent to where I'll be staying, tools and everything else for that matter are much cheaper in the US than here, Apple make a real killing ripping us off with prices for ipads etc.

Forum has been quite low on projects being shown which is my favourite part, what gives? I have had to sell all my machines and have only hand tools left which is my excuse, hope to change all that soon....

farms100 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 12, 12 8:03 am

Sorry bloonose, I missed that your going to be in the Boston area. depending where you are, and if you have a car will determine what is feasible for you to visit.

we have a couple woodworking stores in the area, Rockler in Cambridge, and woodcraft in Woburn. While I enjoy going to woodworking stores they still just stores.

the new wing at the MFA in Boston has a lot of great furniture pieces out. Well worth the price of admission. I also hear the Peabody Essex museum on the north shore is great.

PM me if you have any questions

despite being a local, I am going to miss the woodexpo for the second straight year.

Bloonose · **Joined:** Fri Jun 04, 10 3:30 am **Posts:** 80

Thanks for those links F100, last time I was in the US I went to an exhibition in Washington DC which had Greene Bros Furniture, it was good, had been to The Gamble House in Pasadena so knew it "wood" be :lol:

I did visit, on the same trip, a makers workshop in Brooklyn NYC, who gave me a tour and had a chat, he was busy, as I just turned up to wander though the showroom, and could not spare much time, but I enjoyed that.

It was interesting to see that he classed Black Walnut as a cheaper look when making furniture and would pay for more for European woods rather than use native, works both ways I suppose.

Any other suggestions welcome, wont have a car, being "looked after" by the friend I'm staying with, non woodworker.

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