Laburnum Chopping Boards

[skyhuck]

Works for me, but its pretty inconclusive IMO, I would still happily use a Laburnum or Yew chopping board or goblet

[spiral]

It doesn't lead to an actual webpage either on my notebook or the local library computers. I suppose I could navigate to it via Kew's homepage, but thought that I would flag it up in good faith having tried the link on two different devices.

 

spiral, I have never heard of 'dud link' being used in senses 2 or 3, and suggesting that it's 4 is a bit out of order.

 

Fair enough! I think 4 was just checking! You never know on this forum!

 

Dud is a thing that fails to work properly or is otherwise unsatisfactory or worthless. So I was just checking your context...

 

Personally I've accessed it on a tablet and laptop and a desktop at 3 widely separate locations....

 

Does the rest of their website work for you?

[spiral]

Still works for me bud. Not entirely sure what to take fron the article though.

 

In truth I just take this...

 

"The toxicity of the taxine alkaloids detected in yew heartwood is not known. However, as the Kew chemists readily detected taxine contamination in wine into which yew wood had been placed, it would seem sensible to caution against testing Pliny’s observation and not drink wine from a yew wood utensil."

 

Well we all take our choices and chances in life...

 

For instance if you smoke tobacco, I wouldn't to worry about the goblet . ...

 

Personally Id prefer the more traditional maple burl....Origin the term mazzer For a wooden drinking vessel. Or lignum vitae of course...

 

Yew and laburnam our amongst my English grown favourite's but my chopping boards, Are Kent and Bodmin oak, Caribbean mahogany and Rock maple.

 

I use burry yew for tables and dining trays though...

[se7enthdevil]

 

Personally Id prefer the more traditional maple burl....Origin the term mazzer For a wooden drinking vessel. Or lignum vitae of course...

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what exactly do you mean by this?

[spiral]

what exactly do you mean by this?

 

Sorry for my lack of clarity.....

 

The original medieval & ecclesiastical drinking vessels known as mazer or mazzers were originally made of field maple root burl I believe.

 

From the German "mazer" for the knotty, birds eye type appearance of the maple stump wood.

 

In later centuries lignum vitae became popular for the same as it was believed it imparted health giving chemcals into the wine. {The opposite of yew.}

[spiral]

Is the timber milled and dried already?

I can make them for you but you will need to mail the timber. Can we get a photo of the wood in its current state?

 

Fascinating difference from...

 

I wouldnt use yew for chopping boards. not worth the risk.

 

 

From this thread...http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/milling-forum/52536-yew-chopping-boards.html

 

Noticed that thread listed under this one..

 

Shocking really, your happy for others to eat and drink from it if you earn a coin or two, but personally you wouldn't touch it with a bargepole...

 

Maggie woud have been proud of you...

[muttley9050]

Fascinating difference from...

 

 

 

 

From this thread...http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/milling-forum/52536-yew-chopping-boards.html

 

Noticed that thread listed under this one..

 

Shocking really, your happy for others to eat and drink from it if you earn a coin or two, but personally you wouldn't touch it with a bargepole...

 

Maggie woud have been proud of you...

 

Well what a lovely bloke you turned out to be.... Dredging up something I said 3 years ago to try and make your self look better, or is it a don't feed the tw.... situation.

I stand by what I said. 3 years ago I was running a monthly farmers market stall selling wooden things and chopping boards was one of them. I wouldn't make yew chopping boards to sell or to use myself. But if someone else wants to use them that's there shout,not mine. I guess you have a really high moral standing and never cut down a healthy tree that didn't need cutting down just to earn wages. Etc etc.

 

Notice how I said I wouldn't use them, not that I was making it my mission to make sure nobody has freedom of choice!

[Thesnarlingbadger]

I thought sycamore and maple make the best chopping boards due to there natural antiseptic qualities. I may be wrong, just what I have heard, can anyone back this up?

Personally I would avoid avoid yew or laburnum. Even if it was safe I wouldn't trust it.

[muttley9050]

I thought sycamore and maple make the best chopping boards due to there natural antiseptic qualities. I may be wrong, just what I have heard, can anyone back this up?

Personally I would avoid avoid yew or laburnum. Even if it was safe I wouldn't trust it.

 

I've heard similar of beech.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

I've heard similar of beech.

 

 

Interesting, surely someone on here will be able to bring up information on this hearsay.