Wood Magazine 71 by Larry Clayton

Author:Larry Clayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Wood, Home and hobby woodworker
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
Published: 1994-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Epoxy hook and ring to back side of buckle

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BUCKLE BLANK

FULL-SIZED BUCKLE PATTERN

FRONT VIEW

CARRIER BOARD

* 3 h" plywood

Notch width equals width of strip to be ripped. Make three carrier boards, one with W-wide notch, one 3 /e" and one V2"

Buying Guide Stock. Bocote, cocobolo, two 1x3x12" each, $23 ppd. in U.S. Calif residents add $1.72 tax. Tropical Exotic Hardwoods, Box 1806, Carlsbad, CA 92018. Or call 619/434-3030

Project Design: © Frank Aubry

Photograph:

John Hetherington

Illustrations: Kim Downing

WOOD MAGAZINE AUGUST 1994

LESSER-KNOWN

In a response to the public outcry against rain-forest destruction and concerns about endangered tree species, a trend has just begun among woodworking material suppliers to find more ecologically friendly sources of tropical hardwood. And you'll find out that there's a lot to like about this new stock offering.

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There's a relatively new term in use by the international timber trade — lesser-known species (LKS). To some experts on international economics, the term represents a solution to rain-forest destruction through the encouragement of sustained yield, an environmentally conscious form of forestry. To woodworkers, LKS represent a new range of intriguing stock to use in projects—with no guilt attached.

Placing value on all the trees

Logging accounts for about 25 percent of rain-forest destruction. The rest is due to slash-and-burn agriculture, clearing for mining, and road building. The harvest of tropical trees that does go on focuses on those species generally valued in world trade, such as rosewood, afrormosia, and others, known to woodworkers as exotics. So, with heavy machinery to move the logs and build the roads to get them out, loggers have traditionally cut a wide swath through the tropical forest. Unwanted trees are burned on site, cut into firewood, or just left behind as waste.

But if woodworkers placed a value on these also-ran tree species, more care might be taken to spare and nurture them. In fact, say many experts, if every tree in the forest had a dollar value, the forest would be managed so that every tree could be harvested at its maturity and greatest worth.

Yet, in any natural forest all trees don't mature at the same time. It can be managed, though, to yield some timber each year—forever. And that's sustained yield, an ecologically sound forestiy practice well-accepted by responsible timber producers in more technically advanced countries.

New wood from sound sources

Private and non-profit agencies have recently sprung up to certify sustained-yield timber producers around the world as environmentally sound. That's the reason for the sudden surfacing of lesser-known species on the woodworking scene—these sustained-yield lumber sources must necessarily harvest all types of trees. To encourage this environmentally friendly practice, the lesser-known species must be bought, exported, and marketed to woodworkers along with familiar ones. Although practically all of these newly imported woodworking

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Say hello to newcomers in the marketplace

Monkey Pod (Pithecellobluni samari)

A very stable, moderately hard wood that works easily. Favored for

turning, but suitable for all interior projects and applications.

Malas {Homalium foetidum)

Resembling beech with its rays, this wood has fine-textured, straight grain. Its durability, density, and hardness make it ideal for exterior furni tyre, flooring, millwork, and decking.

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