Pear Wood,

[Rough Hewn]

Hi I am getting a woodland mills HM130 it’s used but in good nic and trailered so after a short time chainsaw milling I was totally into milling so have been doing my best to get a bandmill ,Alaskan Mills are ace and they have their place but are F###ing hard work and after breaking and dislocating my ankle,it’s even more demanding,so hence a bandmill and hopefully with an advertising campaign I will be selling milled timber ,and have been talking with a mate about making living wagons with a difference imagine mad max meets high end interiors and if it don’t work out I can always sell the mill 

Hey Mark,
All sounds really good mate.
Photograph everything, and take lots of videos,
I've found advertising on Instagram has worked well for selling timber.
It's a lot of time investment though.
YouTube, Facebook are worth having a presence on.
Phoning every woodworker,joiner,table maker etc in a 30 mile radius and having a chat.
That was the most worthwhile advertising I've done.
Made a lot of good contacts who pass my number on.
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By far my biggest issue with milling is drying timber.
As most places only want kiln dried.
Do you have access to a kiln?

I really want to see this high end mad max.
Pics when you get it going please
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[gobbypunk]

Hi Thanks that’s all good advice I do have an arrowsmith junior kiln just need to make a box for it ,there’s one on eBay at the mo with all the manuals so I messaged the seller and asked if he would photo copy for me and he said he would try and find time,so yeah I do sort of have a kiln but one of those logosol sauno kilns looks good and a forklift , need to get log ramps made as £500 seems very expensive,if you are ever in our part of the world do pop in 

Cheers Mark 

[Woodworks]

Thanks for the pictures Mark. Looks very pretty but all the spalting is not what I need for this job I am afraid 

[gobbypunk]

Hi Woodworks, no worries sorry it so long I have been so busy ,what do you need the Pear wood for I am curious.

[Woodworks]

On 11/08/2019 at 15:06, gobbypunk said:

Hi Woodworks, no worries sorry it so long I have been so busy ,what do you need the Pear wood for I am curious.

Hi Mark it's for one of these. The client has some very beautiful tiles made up by a fairly well known artist. He  had one made but it was not of a high enough standard to do justice to the tiles and very flatteringly has asked me to try and do a better job eeek. My gut feeling is not to have a striking wood but something very pure but featureless to make the tiles the main feature hence the pear. Open to other suggestions though

 

May have tracked some pear down in Somerset

 

 

[gobbypunk]

Hi I have a very plain slab of monkey puzzle without the eyes in it very white and plain