Argentine Lignum Vitae x Juma

[Scpossum]

Starting to like this Argentine Lignum Vitae (verawood). It sounds and turns great with a natural camo color.

[gergg]

Looks nice....I like Verawood/ALV too, it is so much easier to work with than Genuine Lignum Vitae.

[Scpossum]

 It is easy to turn and doesn't crack and check.  I have a board of genuine LV coming tomorrow, so I guess I will find out what you are talking about.

[gergg]

It is easy to turn and doesn't crack and check.  I have a board of genuine LV coming tomorrow, so I guess I will find out what you are talking about.

The Genuine Lignum I have is very old/dry/hard stuff, and it is by far the worst wood I have worked with. I had to sharpen my tools multiple times throughout the turning and went super slow. I do have lots of twists/turns in my trumpet design which seemed to cause issues for me, so hopefully you won't run into any difficulties.,,,,Good luck and take care....Greg

[antnye]

 One word fellers. Carbide.

Nice looking horn!

[outdoors]

Lignum makes for a really good call
Right gergg

[gergg]

One word fellers. Carbide.

Nice looking horn!

Yeah, carbide is in my future, HSS works fine on everything else so I have procrastinated.

[gergg]

Lignum makes for a really good call
Right gergg
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Yes it does 

[Scpossum]

You are correct about carbide!  Nice tools to work with. Cannot believe I didn't switch over before now.

[davisd9]

Nice looking call


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[EZ]

Love that traditional look.

[Scpossum]

Thanks for all the kind comments. Here is an example of the color change. In the middle is one of my personal trumpets out of Arg. LVitae that has aged and the strikers are genuine Lignum turned the past couple of days. Light brown to dark green. The striker on the left has already started to darken after one day.

[Sir-diealot]

Looks quite nice.

[Chris O]

I like the looks of that wood especially after a little aging.You build some nice looking calls.

[savduck]

History lesson. Lignum Vitae is the hardest wood on the hardness scale.

It is commonly used as bearings. The US used it in bearing in World War II boats as supplies dwindled. The wood had a natural oil that lubricated itself. After the war several engineers took stats from the wear that the bearings took compared to steel bearing. They almost didn't have any wear. It is still highly sought out  as bearings. Many of the boats we're decommissioned and their lignum bearings salvaged. Many of those bearing are still being sold

There is a guy up north that has a warehouse full of real old growth lignum blocks and bearings. It takes for ever to dry. He has just a little for turning stock, it's been sitting on a shelf drying since the like 1952.

It makes an awesome trumpet.