London Plane

[Forest2Furniture]

I've been given 4 huge London Planes in Notting Hill and this week I started to mill the first few sections.

 

The first section was 10' long and 3'3" - 2' 4" in diameter, I got 4 boards @ 2.5" thick & 5 boards @1.5".

 

Only another 20 sections to go!

[Goaty]

:thumbup1:So satisfying

 

Will you be able to sell at an inflated price due to " As seen in Notting Hill" the film and obviously only a limited number of pieces.

[Forest2Furniture]

I've worked out by the time I've finished milling them there will be about 200 planks, so not sure how limited the number of pieces will be.

 

I milled the first section with an idea to make it into a dining table, should look great 2 boards together with the waney edge left on the outside edges.

 

Best bit is, I'm being allowed to leave the planks stacked in the garden to air dry.

[Rhob the Log]

Looks nice and fresh!

[slackbladder]

love the bits with the burring in Looks stunning

[silky fox]

LONDON PLANES...I love em and hate em in equal measures...but what wonderful grain...will it retain its pinkish colour?

[Rich Rule]

I took one out with a crane last year with the idea of milling. From what I recall cutting in a certain way gives lacewood. Sought after by furniture makers.

 

Are you cutting any lacewood?

[Big J]

It would be worth quarter sawing at much of it as possible. The resulting timber is known as lacewood and is quite valuable. The figure visible in the third picture is indicative of what quartersawn plane would look like.

 

It's something I'd like to mill at some point - just don't get it up here.

[Forest2Furniture]

If I can mill quarter sawn with the alaskan then I'll have a go.

Most of the sections are around 20" in diameter but 4 of them (3 now) are over 3' one is 54", I'll need a bigger bar for that unless I can turn it.

 

Access is very limited, can't get a trailer in so everything will have to be hand balled to the truck. But as I said it's staying put to air dried.

 

I use the trees I cut, for making furniture I worked out that by the time I've finished cutting this lot I should have about 400 cube. Either that's a lot of furniture or some of it I will be selling off.

 

The main problem I'll have apart from transporting it up to Nottingham is storage but I've got a couple of years to sort that.

Edited May 10, 2013 by Forest2Furniture

[Forest2Furniture]

Next time I go down will have to change the sticks in the top boards they are to long and keep blowing out in the wind.

 

I also found i or 2 nails this one being a hand made victorian job, didn't damage the chain thankfully.