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What you're ordering:----------------------------------------------------------------
A custom hardwood wrist rest. You can choose the wood species and a few optional extras like finishing, engraving, or dyeing.
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How to order:----------------------------------------------------------------
Send me a PM with what size rest and species of wood you want. I'll send back a quote/price of that rest. Feel free to ask questions, I'm more than happy to answer them
All pre-made rest are finished and ready to ship within a day or two. Since I do most of my woodworking on the weekend and finish them during the weekdays most custom rest should ship on a the following Wednesday or Thursday depending on how long it takes to finish them.
Unless you tell me otherwise, custom order rests will be finished with the "3 coats General Finishes "Arm-R-Seal" Oil & Urethane Topcoat Satin". If you don't want it finished, tell me in the first few PMs.
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Dimensions (Unless otherwise noted or requested):----------------------------------------------------------------
Length: Fullsized = 17 5/16", TKL = 14", Poker = 11 1/2"
Width: ~3 1/2"
Height of back edge: ~5/8"
Height of front edge: ~1/4"
Angle: ~8 degrees
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Optional extras:----------------------------------------------------------------
All rest will ship varnished unless you order it un-varnished:
3 coats General Finishes "Arm-R-Seal" Oil & Urethane Topcoat Satin - Free
- In between coats the rests are sanded with 320 grit sand paper to remove any dust that may have fallen in the coat while drying. On the last coat I "sand" with #0000 steel wool to remove any dust/particles and remove any brush strokes. Allow ~4 days for me to finish these since it take 6-8 hours to dry at optimum conditions and 24 hours at less than optimum conditions and adequate time to fully cure the final coat.
3 coats Cabot Super Clear Satin Lacquer - $1
- It's super clear lacquer, as in it looks like it's just been sanded. If you want this finish, let me know right when you order since I can lay down 3 coats within 2 hours, instead of 3 coats over 3 days like the varnish.
All orders will ship with 4 feet but if you want extra feet:
2 extra feet - $0.50
Custom sizes:
Give me a size and I'll make the rest that length. However this may take some extra time. I can cut down full sized rest to TKL, TKL to poker... but that to will take extra time.
Engraving:
Minimum of $8. May be more considering how many characters you have.
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Species (This is to show general grain pattern, your piece may look different in grain and color):----------------------------------------------------------------
Acer rubrum - Soft Maple - Grown within 50 miles of where I live, sent to the saw mill and then air dried for up to 2 years. Same species of tree that produces sap that's made into maple syrup. Sands very smooth due to it's tight grain. Soft maple is just as hard as hard maple but is easier to work with.
Fraxinus americana - White Ash - The grain is described as bold, straight, moderately open with an occasional wavy pattern. Often called "fake oak" because it's cheaper than oak, looks nearly identical but is actually stronger
Quercus rubra - Red Oak - Oak is regarded as one of the most beautiful woods to work with because of its grain pattern and character. I personally do not like oak of any species because no matter how much you sand it, it will always be slightly rough to the touch due to how the tree grows.
Quercus rubra - Quarter Sawn Red Oak - Same thing as Red Oak except when it was at the saw mill, they used a different style to get the boards. Quarter sawing isn't very popular because it produces a lot of waste lumber compared to traditional milling. However quarter sawn boards have very long, very straight grain.
Acer saccharum - Hard Maple - Very hard to tell the difference between hard and soft maple, even to an experienced eye. It has much less color variation between sapwood and heartwood and tends to very light in color.
Peltogyne spp. - Purple heartwood - The trees are prized for their beautiful heartwood which, when cut, quickly turns from a dark brown to a rich purple color. Exposure to ultraviolet light darkens the wood to a brown color with a slight hue of the original purple. Warning, this wood will turn a dark brown or at least darken to a deep purple with age due to exposure to UV light and oxygen. This wood is very dense compared to other species listed.
Juglans nigra - Walnut - Walnut is a hard, tough wood prized as a cabinet making wood. It is also popular in the United States for gun stocks and rifle butts. It has similar pitting to oak but isn't nearly as bad.
Microberlinia brazzavillensis - Zebra wood - Zebrawood is an exotic wood native to the Western African countries of Cameroon and Gabon. It is a hard wood, with a medium to coarse texture. The Zebra-like appearance is due to the light colored sapwood in contrast with the dark colored grain.
Acer saccharum - Birdeye maple - Birdseye maple is a rare and mysterious characteristic found in hard maple. The one-of-a-kind figure is sought after in all cultures by a multitude of woodworkers, craftsman, and artists.
Acer rubrum - Tiger/Curly Maple - Curly Maple is traditional soft maple with a soft and flowing figure similar to tiger stripes.
Prunus serotina - Cherry - Cherry is a domestic wood that is usually considered to be in the same class as mahogany for usage in the United States. It is described as wood for fine furniture. The stiff and strong wood is reported to work easily with both hand and machine tools. Out of all the woods I've worked with, cherry is the easiest and it even smells nice when sending it through the planer. It retains that smell if left unfinished. Warning, like purple heartwood it tends to darken over time.
Panopsis spp. - Lacewood - Lacewood is an exotic wood that is light reddish-brown, and is reported to be similar in color to Beech. Highly figured, extremely beautiful.
Pterocarpus soyauxii - African Padauk - Padauk is an exotic wood that is a bright orange or almost crimson wood when freshly cut, but oxidizes to a darker, rich purple-brown over time. It is a good wood in all respects - stable, and easy to work with. It often grows in small groups and is reported to be common in dense equatorial rain forests.
Alnus rubra - Alder - Part of the Birch family. Alder is light weight like pine but has a much more interesting grain pattern. Fun fact, Alder piles/foundation hold up most of the city of Venice.
Tsuga heterophylla - Hemlock - The common name hemlock is derived from a perceived similarity in the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant poison hemlock.
Millettia laurentii - Wenge - A legume tree native to the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. The species is listed as endangered in the IUCN Red List.
Turraeanthus africanus - Avidore - Pale yellow or cream, darkening with age to a golden yellow. Heartwood and sapwood usually look the same.
Astronium graveolen - Tiger Wood - Heartwood is typically a medium reddish brown with irregularly spaced streaks of dark brown to black. Color tends to darken with age. (Hard to find pictures due to it's name)
Guibourtia spp. - Bubinga - Heartwood ranges from a pinkish red to a darker reddish brown with darker purple or black streaks. Sapwood is a pale straw color and is clearly demarcated from the heartwood.
Khaya spp. - African Mahogany - Heartwood is a reddish brown, also exhibiting an optical phenomenon known as chatoyancy.
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Group buys for wood:----------------------------------------------------------------
For the most part, I can't ask my wood supplier for small quantities or lengths of wood. This is because a 2' board is way less useful to most people and lowers the value of the board. This makes it hard to ask a wood supplier to do since he'd be losing money in the long run.
So, if you want a rarer species of wood, you may need to wait for others to want that same wood so that it makes sense for me to buy it from the wood supplier. I hope you can understand this. So you have two options, wait for people to want that same wood, or help me pay for a large board from the wood supplier.
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Examples of the finishes (General Finishes Oil & Urethane Topcoat Satin):----------------------------------------------------------------
Soft Maple: (Left/top is unfinished, right/bottom is finished)
Walnut: (Left/top is unfinished, right/bottom is finished)
Cherry: (Left/bottom is unfinished, right/top is finished)
Purple Heart: (Bottom left finished, top right unfinished)
Lacewood: (Finished, no example of unfinished)
Zebra wood: (Finished left, unfinished right)
Hemlock: (Top finished, bottom unfinished)
Alder: (Left/bottom is unfinished, right/top is finished)
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Payment:----------------------------------------------------------------
Payment by Paypal only.
I will also entertain trades, PM me with offers.
- I'm mostly looking at MX CC Skulls ( Blue, Gray, Green), Bro Caps, or novelty caps.
All rest carefully looked at, items sold as is. Lost or stolen packages are buyers responsibility.
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Shipping + Handling:----------------------------------------------------------------
CONUS via Priority Mail - $7
International via USPS First Class - $15 (May be more with the new USPS shipping rates)
Packaging includes ~3 layers of bubble wrap and one layer of packing paper.
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Change Log:7/19: Prices reduced on rest and finishing7/26: Prices reduced on rest and finishing is now free8/2: Updated with more wood species. Also cleaned up some of the Notes, rules, shipping....8/14: Changed post order to make things more clear8/27: Added Super Clear Lacquer to finishing option, refined dimensions of typical sizes, Revised note on wobbles on R1/R2 rest9/23: Re-uploaded all pictures with watermarks11/24: Now offering laser engraving12/23: Updated post about GB + other small things1/17: Moved/Colored sections2/17: Re-uploaded to a new host + Updated watermark----------------------------------------------------------------
