Windline Pacific's Woodworks News & Articles
Dispatch from Hamakua 02/10/11
2011 has been off to great start! It’s winter time, and the visitors and waves are back. We continue to get new wood in on a regular basis. Due to the amount and quality of wood we have been receiving, we have some great new upcoming projects. Ukulele kits are one direction we plan on going. We have some quality curly KOA that we are setting aside to create ukulele fronts, backs and head stocks to have available in kit form. We also continue to collaborate with a friend in the community who makes Santa clause figures with wooden surf boards. This project has seen a growing interest in these figures, and we are excited to continue to provide the custom wood surf boards for the Santa clauses. Another friend in the Hamakua community (James Silva) who creates custom walking sticks capped with a piece of curly KOA has been collaborating with us as well. We hope to see these walking sticks up on the website soon! As always we are busy loading and unloading the kiln.
We still have wood available! A friend who has been milling Koa for some years here on the windward side of the Big Island has offered us the cutoffs from his milling operation. His prices will allow us to make them available to those woodworkers out in the world who do the type of smaller work which you see on my site, either for pleasure or profit. He has been milling on contract, deadfalls and larger limbs, thinning when necesary, with all the appropriate permits and authorizations from the private landowners, the state of Hawaii and the Federal Government.
These are what we call short shorts and are from twelve inches to twenty four inches long. Thickness is either one inch or two inches with widths from three inches to six inches. Prices will run from ten dollars ($10.00) a board foot for select to twenty two dollars ($22.00) a board foot for curly. Figured (ribbon with highlights) will be sixteen dollars ($16.00) a board foot. A board foot is twelve (12) inches by twelve (12) inches by one (1) inch thick or any variation of that total volume. The wood is slowly and carefully kiln dried.