[Material] Bubinga (wood)

Dave R

Here are a couple of Bubinga materials I did up. They are not seamless but real wood is not seamlessly tileable, either. They are both 9 feet long. For smaller projects, if the material is applied to faces you can pick different parts of the board to use much as you would in shop. You should be able to texture a small table with these two materials with no repeats in the texture.
Bubinga 1 9ft.jpg
This one is about 13-3/4 in. wide.

Bubinga 2 9ft.jpg
This one is about 9 in. wide.

When I add materials to SketchUp, I draw faces sized to the known dimension(s) of the material and apply the new images to those faces. No need to edit the the material after import.

Gaieus

@dave r said:

When I add materials to SketchUp, I draw faces sized to the known dimension(s) of the material and apply the new images to those faces. No need to edit the the material after import.

That's a good strategy I also use.

And nice woods, thanks Dave!

Dave R

Thanks, Csaba.

I have more that I need to prep. I might share some of them as well.

Gaieus

Good wood materials are always welcome!

dale

Thanks Dave, I can definitely use this. Nice figure.

Dave R

Dale, you're the first person ever to tell me I have a nice figure.

dale

Someone must, because mine has sure deteriorated

dale

Are you doing these yourself Dave? (no more figure comments ..Honest)

Dave R

Dale, they're from images I've collected. They are raw wood and might stand a little more fine tuning

dale

@dave r said:

Dale, they're from images I've collected. They are raw wood and might stand a little more fine tuning

Hell, I'll just run them through my thickness sander

Dave R

That'll do it. I guarantee they are free of nails so you could even plane them and not worry about knicking your knives.

Jean-Franco

Nice textures Dave !
Thanks for sharing

fastech370

Thank You Dave, I haven't been on for awhile. I'm designing a router table in SU now. I haven't used materials before but will experiment and see what I can do. Jerry

Dave R

Jean-Franco and Jerry, you're welcome.

Jerry, good to see you're around. I'll be interested to see your router table.

Dave

olishea

thanks dave, nice textures. can never have enough wood

jsteacy

I second that Oli!

Thanks Dave,

James

nrevk niatpak

for fancy woods, warmoth has some nice guitar tops and fingerboards on their website...
here's an example :
http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Options/LPCarvedChambered.aspx[url][/url]

Dave R

@nrevk niatpak said:

for fancy woods, warmoth has some nice guitar tops and fingerboards on their website...
here's an example :
http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/Options/LPCarvedChambered.aspx[url][/url]

I had a look. Nice guitars. Are there any reasonably sized material images? I could only find little tiny images that would tile badly if used in SketchUp.

nrevk niatpak

if you scroll down to the laminate top you have a choice of different wood species and by clicking on the guitar body shape it opens a new window ( around 600*875 / jpeg...pretty decent for most renders...
about the tiling... it's usually a bookmatched top so it's not made for tileable wood patterns but rather for fine cabinetry or stuff like that...

bookmatched spalted maple 3.jpg

bookmatched bubinga 1.jpg

Dave R

Thanks for that. Those images are too short for the work I do but maybe someone would like them. Good link.