good source for both olivewood, and cherrywood?

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good source for both olivewood, and cherrywood?

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I have been playing around with google, but haven't found exactly what I am looking for. Anybody have a good source for quality/smokeable olivewood and cherrywood?
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Re: good source for both olivewood, and cherrywood?

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depending on how much you're looking for .. i know that woodcraft.com has both of them, as well as many other kinds of exotic woods. however i believe they are fairly small pieces. i just picked up a 2"x2"x12" piece of olivewood from the woodcraft store in my area. cost me about $30. you could get 3 - 4 decent sized blocks from that. the first small piece i cut from it, i sanded and waxed just see what it would look like .. i think it is beautiful. nice grain. fair warning though, all of their exotic wood blocks like that are all covered in a fairly thick coat of wax.
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If you have a Woodcraft or Rockler near you, give them a try. I don't know about Rockler, but the Woodcraft stores are all independently owned, so their stock varies from what is online, and you can find some real prizes if you find a good one. I just left the one here in RI with a nice piece of rock maple for a project, but while there I saw lots of cherry, blackwood, walnut, and... well, a lot of different kinds of wood. The maple is good to make pipes out of, and I've done so in the past just to see how they smoked.
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Re: good source for both olivewood, and cherrywood?

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Try here, if you don't mind ordering from Europe (Italy)

http://www.bollitopipe.it/

I ordered some pretty good pieces of both normal and white olive wood from them.
They also have cherrywood, lemonwood...
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Re: good source for both olivewood, and cherrywood?

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Thanks fellas. I wasn't sure if the olivewood woodcraft and such sells is ok, or there was a higher grade used for pipemaking.
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