Located in the High Desert of Central Oregon, Fiddleback Woodshack, a shop run by walnut lover Felly Smith,
sources regional species of logs and lumber, as well as certain exotics, for luthiers around the world.
The finest figured claro walnut in the known universe is cut and air dryed right here at the shop.
May your instruments ring with the true spirit of quality wood and craftsmanship.
- 541-815-4457
- 55820 Blue Eagle Road
- Bend, Oregon 97707
- felly@fiddlebackwoodshack.com
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$150 SOLD
- 8 3/4" x 21 3/4" x .145" Quarter
- 5" x 32" x .125" Quarter
Some years ago I had a run of pink maple tube quilt that all came from a bigleaf maple that was standing dead on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge and was later laying dead in some dude's barn for a lot of years before it got sawn into lumber. Maple turns all kinds of colors besides blonde when its left dead in log form and can also spalt. This is due to microbes in the wood that can't survive in dead material and impart the wood with impossible hues at the time of their passing. So those sets were long gone when I stumbled upon one last remaining slab from that log at the same mill where I had originally found the rest. So these are kind of a blast from the past, the last of the last.
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