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Company Name: EXOTIC WOOD WORLD
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Contact Name: Jim King
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Location: IQUITOS-PERU, Other Country 000000
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Year Founded: 1999
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Sq. Footage: 23,000
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Employees: 51
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Gross Sales:
1,000,000
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Website:
www.exoticwoodworld.com
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Product Specialties:
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Architectural Millwork - Lathe Turning
Architectural Millwork - Stock Manufacturer
Woodworking - General
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Shop Equipment:
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Other - MOBILE MANUFACTURING PORTABLE MILL
Other - GENERAL 20 INCH HELICAL HEAD PLANER
Other - HOMEMADE WOODEN RESAW
Other - HOME MADE TURNING LATHE
Other - HOMEMADE SURFACER FOR LARGE SLABS AND LOG SLICES
Other - VARIOUS HOMEMADE TABLE SAWS
Other - TWO SMALL JOINTERS BRAND UNKNOWN
Other - BOSCH TABLE SAW
Other - TWO PURCHASED CHOP SAWS
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Viewer Comments:
Posted By:
marvin bishop [03/09/2006]
very nice setup! I covete the nice woods you have. I use a lot of IPE in my business selling outdoor furniture.
Buena Suerte!
Posted By:
Jonathan Andrew Beckett [03/13/2006]
I'm curious as to what species of wood you've got for turners out there.
Posted By:
Jim King [03/13/2006]
Jonathan: Just click on our web site www.exoticwoodworld.com and you will see a bunch of turning blanks.
Posted By:
Brian Sheldon [03/22/2006]
What an amazing operation, I was looking and wondering why you had so many piles of short lumber and see you sell blanks. Do you kiln or air dry your lumber? I do a lot of segmented wood turning, and am always looking for exotics. On your gallery you show a photo of someone free handidly rough rounding a blank on a table saw with what looks like more than 5 inches of blade exposure. Isn't that dangerous or am I not looking at it correctly? I just use my band saw to round blanks off.
Posted By:
Jim King [03/22/2006]
Brian: We kiln dry and S4S our lumber but the turning blanks are air dried and we are now vacumn packaging them to prevent any checking and mold. The most of our nice looking woods are to dense to be able to kiln dry anything over 4/4. The table saw seems to cause some stir with a lot of people but my people are more comfortable on it than the band saw. In fact I am buying a new band saw tomorrow in hopes that I can get them to use it.
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Brian Sheldon [03/23/2006]
Good to hear. The band saw can be just as dangerous, but atleast you can put in or most come with safe guards such as a blade gaurd covering most of the exposure. I've never heard or seen anyone "free hand" with a table saw without a fence and such, looks extremely dangerous. If they are willing to do it, more power to them, but there are a hundred things that could go wrong with that much exposure. I guess I'm just more conventional that's all; brought up to wood working with shop safety being number one always. You guys saw up some amazing species of lumber, thanks for contributing pics!
Posted By:
Bob [11/15/2008]
Jim how does one go about buying some lumber?
Posted By:
Mike webb [03/02/2009]
I would like to stop by and purchase some of your hardwoods for turning. Where are you located in Iquitos?
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