Monthly Archives: January 2008

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The mystery of fiddleback maple

While I was doing some research, trying to understand the diference between fiddleback maple and curly maple, I came across this very informative text:

Demonstrating a rare depth and dimensionality, Fiddleback Maple is one of the world’s most-prized hardwoods. The Fiddleback Maple figuring is occasionally found in other hardwoods, including walnut, koa, ash and, rarely, other domestic and imported hardwoods. Continue reading this post…

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Diamond stones

There seems to be some confusion regarding diamond stones, one of the reasons being the fact that the system used to grade them is different to the one used for Japanese waterstones and many of the natural stones like the well known Arkansas stones. Continue reading this post…