Laburnum...much value?

[Jonny69]

I've been asked on several occasions. The answer is always the same. Wallet out or its being chipped.

 

They always want it a bit small, bigger, longer, straighter than the piece they are holding on to.

 

If the wallet isn't out within 3 seconds the revs go back up and I chip all the nice looking bits first. Just to make sure they don't come back scrounging again.

 

They are the most useless, boring people I've ever met.

 

Surely there are exceptions to my experience, I'd like to meet someone sharp who did it. Because the thought of saving a few bits to be made into something nice makes my heart warm.

[agrimog]

timber is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, the magority of "hobby" turners want it all for free, "buts only a little hobby, I dont make anything out of it", til you see the stands at any craft fair, or look online, Im with jonny69 on this one now, no up front cash, goes in the bonfire, on into my own pile

[Rough Hewn]

I run an Alaskan mill and always interested in unusual wood.

Pricing is a real bitch though. Often I'm paid to cut it down and remove it. So better than free. If you buy wood by the acre it's cheap too. Problems start when someone thinks

Oooh I've got a piece of oak. An oak table is £1000,it must be worth hundreds.

It's not. It's all firewood until you know someone, who has a market for it.

I worked in forests in France where huge oaks go for firewood and the pine is sold to sawmills for big money????

If you've got good wood, save it.