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Help find Pear Wood. I'm desperate...

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Help find Pear Wood.

This is already a cry of the soul, and I hope for your help. In Ukraine, no one can or does not want to help. I've bought a tree a few times before, but each time it didn't fit. I already thought that I was crazy, but below I will show photos that have what I am looking for, and it is real, and not in my head.

What do I need...
There are a couple of shades of pear wood that I need.

Photo 1. On deck: a) pink pear (dark) and b) beige pear (not very light, which is closer to white, but not brown, but yellow-beige).
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Photo 2. On the sides above and below the waterline, another shade of pear, but also looks like a beige pear.
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Photo 3. The photo below clearly shows the difference between the three shades of pear: dark (pink) pear, light (but not white) and beige (slightly darker than light). And you can see how the color is saturated after the oil.
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Photos 4 and 5. Well, the result after applying oil and tinting.
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And now I will show you what kind of pear I have and what color it turns out after tests with oil.

I bought this pear and after grinding I saw its banding.

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And after cutting it into slats, these color transitions turned out.

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And the wood is all like that. I specially developed it with oil after grinding, since for my cutter you need ready-made rails, as they overlap. And this result definitely does not suit me...

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I understand that the tree is not plastic and has a structure, but these diagonal color transitions are very noticeable and sheathing is not an option, or even worse - mixed in when the rails are different from each other. The color may vary slightly, but if it is so different and even through diagonal stripes it will be very visible and this is definitely a marriage!

One way out is the most uniform workpiece, in which the fibers run parallel to the wave and there is no significant color difference between the layers.

Kind people, help me find such wood as in the top photos of the references, where the wood is homogeneous and without these diagonal transitions.
 
Isn’t pear wood widely available in Central Europe?
There is a lot of pear, but there is little suitable for modeling. It needs to be selected from the unsuitable and no one wants to do this. They sell 2 meters of board or cubic meters. And I have nowhere to saw it and select it so that it is suitable for cladding.
 
Try here. The owner is Vahur. It will probably take a few email exchanges to communicate what you are looking for (Hobbymill.eu@gmail.com).

Thanks for your help. I wrote to email and Instagram, but there is no answer yet. And it is confusing that there was one publication in 2023, and the last two in 2024. I hope he is still active...

I cannot help you with wood but I must say that your work on the model looks VERY impressive. I am taking my hat off.
Thank you, but unfortunately, there is a lot that I can't find suitable material for, and it could be put on hold because I've reached a dead end...
 
I wrote to email and Instagram, but there is no answer yet. And it is confusing that there was one publication in 2023, and the last two in 2024. I hope he is still active...
He is a one-man shop, so he is often slow to respond. His website hasn't been updated in years (including prices). Plus, the lead time for production can be weeks if not months. But if he has what you are looking for, I think you will find his material excellent. He was the source for anything on the Kingfisher that I didn't get from the kit. Good luck!
 
I can highly recommend hobbymill. Very good quality on the planks.
It is also printed in bold red letters all over his website that he is closed in June and July due to renovation.

I have both light and dark pear from him.
 
He is a one-man shop, so he is often slow to respond. His website hasn't been updated in years (including prices). Plus, the lead time for production can be weeks if not months. But if he has what you are looking for, I think you will find his material excellent. He was the source for anything on the Kingfisher that I didn't get from the kit. Good luck!
I can highly recommend hobbymill. Very good quality on the planks.
It is also printed in bold red letters all over his website that he is closed in June and July due to renovation.

I have both light and dark pear from him.
I have already talked to him. But he is undergoing repairs and most likely there will be nothing until the end of summer. And on other sites either they do not answer or it is not clear how to check anything by color... disaster.
 
I was thinking more about what you are looking for. I believe it will be difficult to acquire three shades of pear in volume. Light and dark (pink) you will find...but I'm not sure of the general availability of light and nearly light as if they were a distinct product (tree to tree variation only).

I do hope you can find three shades, but....it might be a personalized process of hand selecting certain boards.
 
I was thinking more about what you are looking for. I believe it will be difficult to acquire three shades of pear in volume. Light and dark (pink) you will find...but I'm not sure of the general availability of light and nearly light as if they were a distinct product (tree to tree variation only).

I do hope you can find three shades, but....it might be a personalized process of hand selecting certain boards.
Absolutely right, I understand that. But since I don't have to leave the city, and there's no one to buy from in Kyiv, I can't personally choose what I want. I'd just like to have at least dark beige and light beige and that would be enough (I have pink), but that turned out to be difficult too...
 
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A good, if not the best choice in terms of a general-purpose wood species for the model.

But to the point. About 20 years ago I cut down quite a few different fruit trees, including a few pear trees, on liquidated allotments in my town. I now keep them in the basement in the form of logs about one metre in length and 5 x 10 cm in section (approximately). I can part with a piece like this, or two or maybe three (for free, apart from postage), but there's no guarantee that I'll be able to pick out a ‘perfectly’ straight-grained piece, as pear wood tends to be somewhat wavy, or of the right colour.

Anyway, have a look at the illustrative samples below. This is a small amount that I have already cut into planks and strips for my use. I think they show reality fairly reliably and you can pre-assess them for your needs.


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A good, if not the best choice in terms of a general-purpose wood species for the model.

But to the point. About 20 years ago I cut down quite a few different fruit trees, including a few pear trees, on liquidated allotments in my town. I now keep them in the basement in the form of logs about one metre in length and 5 x 10 cm in section (approximately). I can part with a piece like this, or two or maybe three (for free, apart from postage), but there's no guarantee that I'll be able to pick out a ‘perfectly’ straight-grained piece, as pear wood tends to be somewhat wavy, or of the right colour.

Anyway, have a look at the illustrative samples below. This is a small amount that I have already cut into planks and strips for my use. I think they show reality fairly reliably and you can pre-assess them for your needs.



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In other lighting conditions, a model made of these particular pieces of wood (untreated) looks more or less like this:



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Thank you for your response. I wrote a private message. In appearance, on a dry model, these diagonal stripes are not visible on your pear. I wonder how it will look under oil. But as I understand it, the smaller the color difference in the wood, the less noticeable the transitions are.

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Strictly speaking, for the hull planking I have selected pieces as straight-grained as possible. So that you can see it better, I have just taken additional photos (yes, in-between wales the "planking" is of a single piece, just like on some Navy Board models; I love to make my life difficult :)). On the other hand, I use pieces of wood with irregular grain for curved components such as frames and knees.

For the rest, I will already reply in a private message.


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