International Wood
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Member Listings and Requests

Members with wood specimens For Sale
600-plus different kinds of wood specimens precisely crafted and labeled, most identified from trees in the forest. I have woods from the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Australia, and others. Contact me for a list.
Alan B. Curtis,
2370 Douglas Drive,
Eugene, Oregon 97405.
I provide wood specimens from around the globe, accurately dimensioned, nicely sanded, and labeled. I maintain a mailing list and send notification when new specimens become available. Contact me for a list.
Gary Green,
9923 N 800 E,
Syracuse, IN 46567
E-mail: ,
website: www.woodsbygwgreen.com.
I buy, sell, and trade wood specimens. Offering more than 1,000 species from around the world, including many from the Guyana Shield region of South America. For a list, which changes constantly, please contact
Tim Heggaton,
10910 Kenmore Drive,
New Port Richey, FL 34654;
Phone: 727-841-8511
Over 1,000 different wood specimens around the world. Over one third are specially figured like blistered, curly, fiddle back, quilted, bird eye, mottled, burled and others.
Réjean Drouin
333, 19 e rue, Québec, Canada G1L 2A5
Phone: 418-529-5466
E-mail:
I am interested in doing some swaps. I have 2200 specimens 60 x 60 x 90 mm of all sorts of imported and home-grown woody plants.
Lionel Daniels,
Windy Heights High,
Hampshire UK GU321EK,
Phone: 01730827472.
I provide a wide variety of woods in standard and other sizes, including blanks for pens, knife handles, bows, pistol grips, etc. I also have a lot of highly figured snakewood.
David Persram,
Persram's Woods, Crafts, and Pens,
24 Belvoir Court,
Bel-Air, Georgetown, Guyana, South America;
Phone: 011-592-226-1757.
I have over 1,000 species in samples form for sale or trade. Many are extras received over the years so I only have one of many. Contact for my list and send me your list.
Dennis Wilson,
12008 Andresen Dr.,
South Lyon, MI 48178-9109, USA.
email: .


I'm looking for a used 1½" spigot collect No. CH196 for a Precision Collet Chuck. Or possibly the whole collet chuck No. CH845. Thread size is not an issue.
Ron Odegaard,
1508 North Eugene Street,
Appleton, Wisconsin 54914, USA.
email: .


Looking for wood to use in research - I'm looking for species of Acer, Juglans, Buxus and Olea and the fruit woods - Pyrus, Prunus and Malus, - for my PhD project. (I'd need to have trunk wood only and know where it came from if possible). Will pay for specimens and shipping.
Katy Levings,
Department of Forest Sciences;
School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences,
University of Alaska-Fairbanks
PO Box 757200,
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7200
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Canadian Official Trees wood specimen sets.
Standard size specimens of the wood of all 13 of Canada's official trees or arboreal emblems - each properly labeled. Comes in a finely crafted maple case with clear sliding lid and a 32 page descriptive booklet.
Contact: Chuck Holder,
Phone 403 282-2743
I am looking for hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana), yellow buckeye (Aesculus octandra), Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) and eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides). Need equivalent of 1-2 bf each. If you have any of these for sale or trade, please let me know.
Contact: Richard H. Smith, Jr.;
McDaniel College/Chem.
2 College Hill,
Westminster, MD 21157;
Ph 410-857-2491;
Wood Needed
I am looking for Arbutus unedo, Buxus sempervirens, Crataegus laevigata, Juniperus communis, Populus tremula, Prunus padus, Prunus spinosa, Quercus petraea, Salix pentandra, Sorbus aria, Sorbus domestica, Tilia platyphyllos, Ulmus glabra. If you have any of these for sale or trade, please let me know.
Stan Hunter,
9303 Iron Stone Ct,
Laurel, MD 20723-1386;
Phone: 301-725-5731;
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IWCS wood specimen kits for sale. Check the website for wood specimens currently available: $50 for 36 shipped anywhere within Continental USA.
Please contact:
Marven Smith,
1256 Moffett Road,
Lucedale, MS 39425-7803
Phone: 601-947-3014
Booklet For Sale
Carving the Woods of the World, Volume 2 is now available. It features 310 more species carved and evaluated. For a copy, contact:
Howard Russell,
53 Bodkin Street,
St. Thomas, ON N5R 6H5 Canada
Phone: 519-633-2788
e-mail:
Books for Sale
Send for an updated list of books on trees and timbers. Write:
Ken Bassett
1805 58th Street NE,
Tacoma, WA 98422
e-mail
My company, Linden Publishing, is always looking for wood and woodworking authors. Currently I need an author for a book on wood and another for a book on making residential doors. We publish books and also sell other publisher's titles.
Richard Sorsky #1894,
Linden Publishing Inc.,
2006 S. Mary, Fresno, CA 93721
Phone: 559-233-6633
FAX: 559-233-6933
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