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Gene Reitz Courtesy of the Author 2004-2005 There are rumors circulating that Genuine Mahogany will not be available for much longer and therefore customers who use it should start changing to other species. It is true that supplies are not what they used to be. Much of the Mahogany left in Brazil is on Indian …

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The wide scale practice of illegal logging in Peru has gotten the attention of the U.S. Government and many environmental groups. If there were no one to buy the material from these operations this practice would be effectively halted but that would require stopping all Mahogany imports. The implementation of controls over the movement of …

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There are many things that I have learned as a woodworker over the years, but two of the most important are the myth that only narrow glued up boards are stable, and, the importance of matching wood. Since my high school shop days I have been told that the only way to insure stability in …

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My name is Louis Irion, and my wife Wanda, and I are the owners and founders of the Irion Lumber Company. Our lumber company is the outgrowth of a custom furniture business I started in 1977, called Irion Company-Furnituremakers. We were making high end eighteenth century furniture to order, and at that time there were …

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Not only is it possible, using wide boards can add value to your pieces. By Louis Irion It was well into my woodworking career before I even heard the myth that you couldn’t use wide boards in furniture and millwork because they were absolutely prone to misbehavior. I do remember my woodworking professor at industrial …

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