milled walnut trunk

[Rob D]

That is some nice stuff indeedy - loverly colour and very small amount of white sapwood. Looks like there is no shake either?

 

I would definately ask for £40-00 a cubic foot. No less.

 

So your planks are 2.33 cubic foot per plank at dimensions given so would be £90-00 per plank.

 

 

 

 

 

[Ben Ballard]

cheers for the replys that would be good 70pound a cube jph:thumbup1: i like the list of wood on your web site what i dont sell green i may air dry or see if any local sawmills would hire out space in there kilm if it dont kill the job with the cost as i dont mill much to justify building a kilm,and at least what sell green will be out of my hands if it splits,i have some yew to mill soon and most of that i will keep as a investment to dry out

[Ben Ballard]

sounds good rob cheers i will go for around £100 mark a slab as sounds fair for such rare wood i will be lucky if i get a bit like this again

[Big J]

Up here (sunny Scotland), you won't get dried walnut of that quality for less than £100 a cube. No exaggeration either. If it were me, I'd try your luck at £60-70 a cube. It will sell, regardless of price. Try Shotgun makers - they are your best customers for walnut.

[Ben Ballard]

sounds better every post.cheers big j i think the walnut was so good for the brown colour due to fact the tree had not put much growth on in the last 20 years the tree was felled as it was leaning towards power lines with a lot of decay in the main fork and had honey fungus around the roots .

[Ian Leach]

Up here (sunny Scotland), you won't get dried walnut of that quality for less than £100 a cube. No exaggeration either. If it were me, I'd try your luck at £60-70 a cube. It will sell, regardless of price. Try Shotgun makers - they are your best customers for walnut.

 

I thought it was the rootball for the gun stock ?? Maybe im wrong

[WADKIN]

If you are interested in selling all of this all or part of. i would happily pay you a good rate. I will send you a PM with my detials if you are interested in parting with it.

 

Andy

[Mesterh]

I thought it was the rootball for the gun stock ?? Maybe im wrong

 

Yeah I think the roots are worth a lot if you can dig/winch the stump out.

[Big J]

They do say that the most valuable stuff is in the root ball. Piano veneers and the like. Does anyone actually do that now though?

[WADKIN]

The root ball is indeed used for stocks and veneers. However if you speak with any gunhouse here in the uk you will get the same reply, we do not buy english as it is not dense enough. In the main it all comes in from Turkey these days. The cutting is very specialist to make sure the grain flows through the wrist etc, a stocker once told be the flare of the stem and root plate were also very important as during its growth it sheds water better and of course it flows through the shape itself. There is a big difference between a pretty piece of walnut and a functioning pretty piece which will stand the recoil of a working gun.

The big prices you see advertised on sites such as steve skidis, are for very rich bankers to choose a bit from. In truth buying in volume in mixed lots the prices are not as much as people think. I recently had some dropped of to me to sell for a mate, he picked them up from a top london gunmakers for £20 a piece as they were not up to grade. Not to say that is not what they are worth and pay normally, but they do not pay hundreds of pounds as some may think, that is just for a very small retail market.

It that said if the site allows and the root ball is better taken out with the stem, or left behind and cut as low as is possiable, 2 reasons, the first length is never that great and in order to be of use to someone wanting a few stocks, they are going to need 2 foot or so of the stem for the flare. So it reduces the length of the saleable stem. The other thing being most buyers will not buy walnut with the root on as they cannot see what they are buying.

If you are going to take it out with the root the tap root has to cut as if ruptured by pulling it will ruin a lot of the timber.

Regards veneer, the root ball can be rotary peeled and the americans refer to it as swirl veneer.

Hope that answers some questions.