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Story: What Started Me Wood Collecting?

I had been working in a lumberyard and hardware store for about a year, it was 1983. One day I went out to the lumberyard part to snoop around. I went way back into one of the lumber storage buildings and found a large pile covered with a dirty old canvas. When I removed the canvas, I found a bunch of old, dirty and dusty lumber. Johnny J W Morlan
七月 27 2004

I had been working in a lumberyard and hardware store for about a year, it was 1983. One day I went out to the lumberyard part to snoop around. I went way back into one of the lumber storage buildings and found a large pile covered with a dirty old canvas. When I removed the canvas, I found a bunch of old, dirty and dusty lumber. 

When I started questioning and inquiring to the other employees about the lumber, no one knew very much about it, only that it had been there a very long time. One employee that had been working there for over 20 years said, " It had been there as long as he could remember." The next time the owner came into the store, I asked him about the pile. He said, "it was just odds and ends of different species of lumber from special orders for customers that they did not want." I asked him how much he wanted for the whole pile of lumber. He said, " $100.00." I bought it. 

The owner had two yard men deliver it to my house. They just kind of threw it off the truck and made a sloppy pile. The pile was 6 foot high x 8 foot wide x 20 foot long. I sorted, counted it and stacked it neater. When all was said and done, I had over 400 board foot and 32 different species of exotic wood worth about $1000.00 in retail price for that day and age. 

Those were the first 32 wood species of a wood collection that now exceeds 500! I periodically take the collection to schools and shop classes. Each piece is 3" x 6" x 1/2", specification size {International Wood Collectors Society}. I have cut each one from a larger piece of lumber and finished them.

 Presentation Eighth Grade Shop Class

 




艺术品 样式 : 功能艺术 - 当代。
艺术品 主题 : 木材加工 - 木头工作。
艺术品 媒体 : 木材。 - 木头。



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