Anyone know a source for large Tagua nuts. Craft Supply is out and e-bay is too expensive. (one listing had them at $1.20 ea.) Thanks
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Tagua Nuts
- Thread starter Paul M. Kaplowitz
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I got mine at Amazon.com which came from www.treelineusa.com. Also what do you make with them? Pictures?
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Paul:
Contact Gene Doren at Doren's Artistic Woodturnings in Alaska for a wide range of palm nuts, including a good selection of Tagua "nuts" of all sizes:
http://www.ivorynutpalm.com/
He is a long-time supporter of the AAW and often a vendor at the annual Symposium. I have gotten a number of different kinds of palm seeds from him over the past few years!
(BTW, the Tagua "nuts" are not really nuts at all, but are the seeds of a species of palm).
Rob Wallace
Contact Gene Doren at Doren's Artistic Woodturnings in Alaska for a wide range of palm nuts, including a good selection of Tagua "nuts" of all sizes:
http://www.ivorynutpalm.com/
He is a long-time supporter of the AAW and often a vendor at the annual Symposium. I have gotten a number of different kinds of palm seeds from him over the past few years!
(BTW, the Tagua "nuts" are not really nuts at all, but are the seeds of a species of palm).
Rob Wallace
john lucas
AAW Forum Expert
Rob gave you the place to get them. I tried a whole bunch of sources 2 years ago and they had the best selection, especially the larger ones. I had a lot of fun slicing them into slabs and using them as Inlays, also drilling them with Plug cutters to make round plugs to inlay.