VR Wood Mods bottom feeders kiwi style

[Nautilusfan]

Well I've collected myself.....somewhat.... Vaughan you are truly an artist!! Turned my vision into a beautiful reality

 

[Doffy]

Love the dark side of that

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[Nautilusfan]

Yep Vaughan did a great job preserving the cool face patterns! One of the things that drew me to the block initially

 

[Spydro]

Well I've collected myself.....somewhat.... Vaughan you are truly an artist!! Turned my vision into a beautiful reality

Like your Key Lime VRmod Naut with its matching fancy button and DT.

 

[Sloth Tonight]

Love the dark side of that

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"Dark Side of the mod"

Congrats on 2 years Doffy my friend!

 

[2pak2zero]

Well done Dan, Congrats! Got a vapeversary pressie to go with your mod...

Here is Nauti's mod with the worlds most time consuming DT, worth every minute! View attachment 507591 View attachment 507592

I think requests for drip tips might increase after this.

"The Total Package!"

Congrats Nauti!

 

[mommabird62]

2 years a vaper for me today.

No worries on needing down time Vaughan. Everyone needs rest

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Congrats doffy! [emoji4][emoji322][emoji322]


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Mommabird62

 

[penguiness]

Well done Dan, Congrats! Got a vapeversary pressie to go with your mod...

Here is Nauti's mod with the worlds most time consuming DT, worth every minute! View attachment 507591 View attachment 507592

Nauti, are you causing everyone in line behind you to have to wait even longer and the maker frustration... again?

 

[inspects]

Well I've collected myself.....somewhat.... Vaughan you are truly an artist!! Turned my vision into a beautiful reality

Gorgeous Mod Naut.... It's business as usual in the land of the Kiwi....

That CA finish is incredible, prettiest mirror-mod combo I've ever purchased.....

 

[inspects]

Bring the list forward....!

1 houndb inbound
2 majic cloud ?
3 Loopy block received
4 nautilusfan block received
5 GillTheGrunt working on it!
6 Cadman inbound
7 Doffy wood on hand
8 coaldriller block received
9 jazzvaper
10 nautilusfan
11 Clark F
12 penguiness
13 anonymous tripp
14 NatGasMan block received
15 fatboylim
16 RobbieVape
17 supertrunker
18 distortoblotto inbound
19 LittleBird
20 Kingdal
21 inswva
22 Splatnex
23 hotsauc333
24 Uno Mas blocks received *3
25 Klav block received
26 emotionalstabilitysloth
27 AndyW block received
28 badinfluence357
29 BlueSnake
30 Doffy
31 2pak2zero
32 penguiness
33 distortoblotto
34 AndyW
35 Spydro
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37 James
38 hotsauc333
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[Spydro]

First wood on the table for a VRmod is Velvet Mesquite Burl that I have 3 burl caps of from Arizona. Another wood that I am thinking about using is more local to V having come from sawyer friends in Tasmania. It's Lophozonia cunninghamii, and goes by many common names. Among them Pinkwood Burl, Tasmanian Myrtle (commonly in the wood industry) and Rose Myrtle. An example of the misnomer of common names... Myrtlewood is in the Myrtaceae family, this is actually a Southern Beech (Nothofagaceae), and they are not even related to each other at the higher Order level of classification. I have 3 blocks of it left that I could cut up and pick a mod block from. Finished al la naturale to bring out the depth of the color, grain and figure that varies throughout these ought to make for a nice VRmod.

 

[inspects]

First wood on the table for a VRmod is Velvet Mesquite Burl that I have 3 burl caps of from Arizona. Another wood that I am thinking about using is more local to V having come from sawyer friends in Tasmania. It's Lophozonia cunninghamii, and goes by many common names. Among them Pinkwood Burl, Tasmanian Myrtle (commonly in the wood industry) and Rose Myrtle. An example of the misnomer of common names... Myrtlewood is in the Myrtaceae family, this is actually a Southern Beech (Nothofagaceae), and they are not even related to each other at the higher Order level of classification. I have 3 blocks of it left that I could cut up and pick a mod block from. Finished al la naturale to bring out the depth of the color, grain and figure that varies throughout these ought to make for a nice VRmod.

Oh WOW, Spydro....unbelievably beautiful pieces of wood....!!!

 

[penguiness]

First wood on the table for a VRmod is Velvet Mesquite Burl that I have 3 burl caps of from Arizona. Another wood that I am thinking about using is more local to V having come from sawyer friends in Tasmania. It's Lophozonia cunninghamii, and goes by many common names. Among them Pinkwood Burl, Tasmanian Myrtle (commonly in the wood industry) and Rose Myrtle. An example of the misnomer of common names... Myrtlewood is in the Myrtaceae family, this is actually a Southern Beech (Nothofagaceae), and they are not even related to each other at the higher Order level of classification. I have 3 blocks of it left that I could cut up and pick a mod block from. Finished al la naturale to bring out the depth of the color, grain and figure that varies throughout these ought to make for a nice VRmod.

I am thinking #3 (the last one) has a tight enough figure that it would be well displayed on a small mod.

 

[Doffy]

wow, i never knew rose myrtle looked like that inside. I know it as the fruit that fruit bats eat to end up poo-ing purple on cars

 

[Spydro]

I am thinking #3 (the last one) has a tight enough figure that it would be well displayed on a small mod.

What's on the surface exposed on some burl or otherwise sawed woods and what's inside them can vary considerably in figure and color contrast. Part of the fun of crafting woods is trying to figure out where to make cuts for the best a block has to offer. That is something that only gets somewhat easier from understanding how it grew and long T&E experience cutting them to confirm your speculations. IOW, some woods that look stellar on the surface may be less than that to even just Plain Jane inside. So you take a chance when paying dearly for outward appearance only on wood species that you are not very familiar with. But being the first person to ever see what treasures were hidden inside is always special if you love fine woods.

All three blocks have features that would work fine in mod size blocks.

 

[Spydro]

Another one from Taz I have is Fiddleback Tasmanian Blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), also called Acacia Blackwood, Australian Blackwood or Australian Koa because it is very similar to Hawaiian Koa (Acaia koa) when finished.

 

[Spydro]

Last one for awhile and to get off the Tasmanian wood porn now that CloudFlare London or San Francisco is letting ECF refresh again.


My first choice in Taz wood would be from blocks I have that I wouldn't be able to get past NZ customs without some fairly demanding pre-ship work that I no longer have the health, equipment or supplies for. But after that work it would pass customs, and it would be easy wood for V to work with that would make an exceptional VRmod IMO.

 

[Nautilusfan]

Nauti, are you causing everyone in line behind you to have to wait even longer and the maker frustration... again?

Hope not!! You know me Always something a little different!!

 

[inspects]

Last one for awhile and to get off the Tasmanian wood porn now that CloudFlare London or San Francisco is letting ECF refresh again.


My first choice in Taz wood would be from blocks I have that I wouldn't be able to get past NZ customs without some fairly demanding pre-ship work that I no longer have the health, equipment or supplies for. But after that work it would pass customs, and it would be easy wood for V to work with that would make an exceptional VRmod IMO.

Spydro...if you're interested in selling a piece of the Taz big enough for a 26650... I'm screaming as loud as I can (at myself)...please let me know my friend......

 

[vkiwi]

Last one for awhile and to get off the Tasmanian wood porn now that CloudFlare London or San Francisco is letting ECF refresh again.


My first choice in Taz wood would be from blocks I have that I wouldn't be able to get past NZ customs without some fairly demanding pre-ship work that I no longer have the health, equipment or supplies for. But after that work it would pass customs, and it would be easy wood for V to work with that would make an exceptional VRmod IMO.

Hi spydro, will come back with your questions tonight, but for this wood the way past customs is to simply put a layer of epoxy over the outside, it will all be taken out in the making, and if the voids are filled on the outside customs will treat it as finished wood, with no issue. Lovely selection by the way!