If you can’t work in the shop, you can at least shop for stuff for the shop
A few new goodies arrived this week. First, my new books about wood. If I’m going to be subject to its whims and moods, it would probably behoove me to learn something about it. My dogter is interested in them as well, but I told her I have dibs on reading them first.
My little box of wood, which I got via eBay for $5 and shipping, is delightful. It’s mostly cocobolo, with what might be a little mahogany, (I should check one of those books, eh?), and some birds-eye maple. Some of it is beveled, which is groovy. I’m going to have a really nice collection of inlaid paperweights if I keep this up.
And today, my shell came, all the way from Taiwan. The 11-year-old in me really digs getting mail from Taiwan, covered in Chinese characters and official customs stamps and all that. And better yet, it was a ganga. 100g each of gold and black MOP, for $9 per lot and totally reasonable shipping. That’s a little over 3 oz. of each. Gold usually goes for about $19-30 an ounce, black for $30-50 an ounce. I’m happy with what I got. The gold is as good as what I already had, also bought from another seller on eBay, and I haven’t used black before, so we’ll see how it shines up once I sand it. It has nice colors in it; I can tell that much already.
