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Any Maui locals?

Alan Peck

Alan Peck

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I’ll be in Maui this week and would love to bring home a small (6”x6”x6”) blank for a hollow form. Koa, Mango, etc.

I’d prefer to support a local turner with this purchase.
 
Don Stephan said:
Good practice to smuggle wood into United States? Didn't the beetle bringing Dutch Elm disease enter the US in wood?
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Kind of like smuggling cheese from Wisconsin to Minnesota?

To the OP, found some nice wood to bring home at Maui Hardwood Lumber in Wailuku. Not big turning squares, but some 4x4 pieces of mango and monkeypod. Also got a nice piece of koa from the shorts bin for an attempt at building a ukulele. While you're there go down the street to TJ's Warehouse Outlet for a bento box and great poke. Doesn't look like there's a food place in there, but it's wonderful and as reasonably priced as anything in HI. Definitely not a tourist spot, incredibly friendly folks.
 
Emiliano Achaval said:
We are the 50th State in the nation…. Give me a call and you can stop by my shop.
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We mainlanders aren’t too good at history and geography
ChatGPT
“A 2017 survey by Sporcle found that about 15% of respondents failed to correctly identify Hawaii as a U.S. state”

I vaguely remember US history - the Spanish American war - yellow journalism - remember the Maine
A bunch of rich guys brand an accident on the Maine as sabotage and we have a war with Spain. Some guy named Dole gets the US to annex Hawaii for a base needed for the Spanish American war.


Imagine going to war over a lie and annexing a country for greed.
 
When I was in the local turning club 20 years ago, an old-timer went to Hawaii every winter and brought back a big suitcase full of wood each time, mainly koa. (He gave me a chunk, I didn't care for it.)
 
Roger Wiegand said:
Kind of like smuggling cheese from Wisconsin to Minnesota?

To the OP, found some nice wood to bring home at Maui Hardwood Lumber in Wailuku. Not big turning squares, but some 4x4 pieces of mango and monkeypod. Also got a nice piece of koa from the shorts bin for an attempt at building a ukulele. While you're there go down the street to TJ's Warehouse Outlet for a bento box and great poke. Doesn't look like there's a food place in there, but it's wonderful and as reasonably priced as anything in HI. Definitely not a tourist spot, incredibly friendly folks.
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Those are my favorite kind of places.
 
I have been to Hawaii a few times. I would go purchase a Rubbermaid container and a roll of duct tape. During my stay, I would find wood that fit in the container. No bark. Take the container to the airport and have the inspectors look to see what I had and put a stamp of approval on the container. Then, I would put duct tape around the container and check it all in as baggage. Worked like a charm.
We have Black Acacia here, Not quite Koa, but darn close. Considered a weed here.
 
Not the first time I suffered foot-in-mouth disease, likely not the last. For some unexplained reason I thought the reference (Maui) was to a location in the Polynesian island chain. Never visited the 50th state in my 73+ years.
 
A guy at my son's job brought home a long stick (about 2 1/2" x 36") that's supposedly koa. (I have no way of knowing) He gave it to my son to give to me because he wants to get together at my shop and and have me help him make a pair of knife scales (handles) with it. (said I could have the rest) That was about a year ago and he hasn't made any contact with me yet.
 
Darryl Fective said:
Lucky!

I'd contact Emiliano Achaval. I've heard he is a very nice guy.

KEA Woodturning Studio

Lathe woodturned art. One of a kind Koa gifts.
www.hawaiiankoaturner.com
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I can confirm that Emiliano is indeed a really nice guy. Last time I was on Maui, and on very short notice, he invited me to his shop and I came home with some very pretty wood :)
 
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