Can't find the link for the post now, but this is pdib's exact quote (it's on this thread) that I copied to notes:
"Size, well, let's see. Not counting the button; at it's thickest it's usually just a snigglin' under 1 1/32", it's widest is 1 15/16", and it's about 3 1/2" tall (unless you hold it way up high, over your head . . . . then it's taller)."
So minimum size is 3 1/2" x 1 1/32" x 1 15/16" assuming there's not a spot on the wood that chips off, room for polishing, etc etc. IOW, you want to go at least another inch or so for safety bigger would be my guess (pdib will hopefully chime in himself for optimal/minimal block size). But NO dimension can be smaller than the above... so when you see knife or pen blocks... most of them are like 7/8", 5/32" etc on the shortest side... and you can't use it.
Other thing Pdib has said here, is that it should be stabilized wood, and that it cannot be the hardest classed woods because you may then have to pay an additional $200 for ruining his bits and other wood tools. Sticking with burls and other wood types he's posted should be OK, but he hasn't provided a list of OK'd woods either. He did say that if you find something you fall in love with, pm and ask him BEFORE you buy it, and he will tell you if he can or cannot do it... I'd take that advice seriously, some of the pieces I've been looking at have been really expensive...
But if you were given a spot on the waiting list, he should have already told you your batch # (if he hasn't, it's time to bug him again). Well, he's going to have some premades in each batch, so my thought was to see if I fall in love with a premade before I go wood hunting
. That's not stopping me from looking and dreaming tho...
