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  1. stig

    King of the Redwoods

    I'll try to make it up there next time I come over. I'm hoping to be able to make it next year. Depends on economy of course, but we are absolutely swamped with work the next ½ year, so it looks promising.
  2. stig

    King of the Redwoods

    Mario, do you have any pictures from the inside?
  3. stig

    King of the Redwoods

    I have heard the windy location thing, too. I don't believe it though. It doesn't match up with my own observations. I believe it is a genetic trait. I once found a horsechestnut with the tightest, loveliest fiddleback figure. It was in the whole tree, even the thinnest branches. Unfortunately...
  4. stig

    King of the Redwoods

    Me neither. Can you imagine the value of a whole tree like that today?
  5. stig

    King of the Redwoods

    Man, I'd love to put a piece of those pillars on the lathe.
  6. stig

    King of the Redwoods

    Find a bigger piece, you could make a motel out of it:http://www.curlyredwoodlodge.com/history.htm I just have to spend a night there someday!
  7. stig

    King of the Redwoods

    That was what I was going to do if my friend had shipped his panelling over. Combined it with sheetrock. I visited the owner of one of the biggest and oldest lumberyards here, both native and imported woods, about 15 years ago. He had bought a large table lamp , I turned from solid elm burl...
  8. stig

    King of the Redwoods

    The house of my karate teacher friend up in Arcata had the old dark redwood panelling in all the rooms. Really gloomy. When I visited in 2005 he talked about replacing it with sheetrock painted in a light color. I told him to consider that there will never be made any more of that panelling, and...
  9. stig

    King of the Redwoods

    Jay can do way better than that. All those redwood burl souvenir shops along highway 101 seem to believe that the only surface treatment that works on redwood is a thick coat of glossy polyurethane varnish.
  10. stig

    King of the Redwoods

    I lived in the area in 1981. Wish I could have known Jerry back then.
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