Re: I need your help again

Prater wrote:
> Thanks for the info.
>
> Where do you get Manzanita?  From a bird store?
Parrots will eventually chew up manzanita too but it takes a lot longer 
than with most woods, especially pine.   As to where to get it, about 5 
of my 60 acres of land are covered with it.  This is southern Arizona 
about 15 miles east of Nogales.  It's native from Texas to California 
and mostly considered worthless.  It's quite hard and can polish nicely 
sometimes used for things like pistol grips.  It's hard to find a a 
straight piece so there's no logging industry for it.   The reason it's 
expensive in bird stores, even where it's native like Tucson, is that 
its such a pain to ship.  When I need a new perch it's
a 15 minute job to select a nice piece and 1 minute with the chainsaw to 
get it.   Manzanita is a "bush" with many trunks growing out of central 
location then branching into smaller limbs. It sometimes grows with 
interesting curves.   The trunks rarely exceed about 4" dia.  The whole 
mature bushes are 8-10' high and 10-15' in diameter containing (I would 
guess) 500 to 1000 pounds of wood.

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Lou Boyd