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not every bit, you can eat the berry flesh ;-) I could understand if i got sick from making yew dust soup for dinner, but didnt expect such nastiness from dust snorting. 3rd time now and definitely a lesson learned. Doctor (arrogant fart-knocker) said impossible to get sick from wood dust - but then he would, they're usually full of their own pee & importance.. & ta for the compliment ;-)

No booth! either outdoor or blow out the workshop. You don't really have to be that fussy. Outdoor is fine, between each coat you need to "de-nib" it anyway. If doing a small piece, spray it and bring it in. Big stuff, set up a gazebo with sides. cars (my trade 25 year ago - pre trees) are all sorts, 2 pac, pre/acid cat, cellulose... much the same for wood. lacquer is lacquer. it just depends on the end use of the product. Water based is super tuff - what you might find on bar tops where lots of spillage occurs. Next down the line is a pre or acid cat, where you can pick from satins to 90% super high gloss finishes (of course, rubbing out to insane grits like 4000). Pick your % to suit your finish. You can't polish rubber to a gloss, no more than you can a 50% satin product. that table, very wet coats of that water based are touch dry in 30 mins. leave 2 weeks before rubbing out. that table was not polished. as for taking your stuff to a car sprayers.. I'm not sure they'd devote 5 coats and 5 lots of denibbing/sanding for 20£ in their pocket !

I sure did! Gladly too! To the tree surgeon I once worked for, who gives me all my timber (sometimes free!), lets me mill at his yard, moves it all with his grab for me, educates me, and really without him doing all this could be So much harder. Small price to pay, I think ;-)

Well thank you Jonathan. I'll take that as a compliment, considering your eye for a fine bit of grain ;-)

now there be a sound thinking man

I too use a Stihl 48. But I think I'd rather have something with a sprocket. Talk to RobD here.

Thankyou! spraying, hmm, swings &... really. You can buy kits out there, but as in anything, you get for what you pay for. You want a compressor that can deliver a constant 30-50psi without dropouts, and then tune your air / paint mix to suit. Too much paint=runs & orange peeling etc, too much air, gritty finish. You definitely need a flow regulator on your gun if there isn't one on the comp. You cant go chucking 100psi thru a gun - well you could, if you could dial in the paint amount to suit and were robot efficient at it ! Guns, you want a HVLP (thats a type) gravity fed gun - so much better than the old "suckers". 100£ is a good start. you want a gun that you can change the nozzles on (20 a go) if you want to spray water based and solvent based - which I'm sure you will. And practice with paint/colour first - lacquer is much harder to get on - because you cant see it. 300£ would be a handsome setup. Good gun and line, filters, bits, a nice second hand quality compressor - definitely no clarke rubbish

simple... oak.... now comes the hard bit.. cupping, bow, diamonding, checking, crook, twist, case hardening and finally collapse from my own experience, dont kiln it - at least not for two years

Finished. slick wet finish with more shine than Liam Gallagher & a L'oreal advert combined. 5 coats of water clear lacquer - sprayed. Best bit was giving it to the people I made it for. And the response I got from them.

J... think I got a price of 30£ per litre (=25L) but then I'm buying a lot of gear from them. I paid the same )60( for 5kg of wykabor. regards info... like you, i googled everything, found opinions from the basic to the alarmist nutters - and it would seem that people just say whatever suits them nowadays. The Soverign tech man didn't knock wykabor as a product, he asked me what i use. I said Boron based, and he gave me a bunch of reasons why I really probably shouldn't. Sensible chap, and on the strength of that alone, I will be trying their sovaq. Company is good, you can call em up and talk science to their tech team.

second that

Jonathan, it's not douglas, but ive dried macracarpa (big boards), lleylandii, western red, and some sappy stuff, and I had them all in with hardwoods. They dried quicker, didn't over dry, suffered far less defects - in fact the softwoods have been my most successful timbers. not much help, but Ive found them easy to deal with.

Well Jonathan, He's right in that most people are steering away from boron products - environmentally they're the pits, and then there's the health issues; least of all the nerve damage.. I still have 2.5kg of the wykabor but will switch to their products for the next kiln. I've been using a lot of their gear on a current job, they came out and supplied the entire job; timber treatments, tanking products, plaster finishes and I'm pretty impressed with all their gear, so I will use the Sovaq on the next kiln.. The MM... aye, that German one I have is a pricey enough unit, but doesn't measure above 20% and I wanted to watch it gradually go down, in order to better my kilning techniques, but really not worth buying those toy meters.

lasts a couple of days with me.... but then I do coat my airways with about half a kilo

thanks for that feedback Ben, I dont feel like such a mutant now

on this one, a PU waterbased 50% gloss. the owner has 3 young kids, wants something that can take a bashing.

I think Slackbladder started a wood filler revolution with the resin thing. Chucking the bit of gold in there was just to kinda make something interesting out of it. You're right Rob, cutting, shaping, sanding - that's where the work & art is. I like to make the wood speak, it's all about the grain for me - even if it does come in the shape of a dwarfs axe head. I dont know if anyone else suffers from yew, but I cant wear my mask all day, no matter how good it is - and yew dust gives me symptoms like the worst man flu around.. SB,,, first goes with the resin went ok. A mate (engineer) gave me a great rock smasher for the turqouise etc - seconds! (gonna try and get another for you), and the resin thing,,, I was concerned it might lift, so with my dremmel-carver, I sunk small holes into it at angles, and cut a 'cornice' into the lip of the hole, so the resin couldnt pop out. I sanded it to 360 with a DA, and then put some 1200 over it and rubbed it with a cloth for ages. I'm hoping it comes up crystal clear when the lacquer goes on.. the new sexy metal arrived today, so I might skip work tomorrow & get some shine on it:D

fly agaric, psilocybin, glasto... i'm seeing a pattern... table and chairs is awesome..

2nd one is hanibal lector

nice form, definitely,, what finish are you putting on them?

green or dry? and where are you, i might be interested

Thanks Bud.. if you get/have any yew, let me know. I'll have a bit of venison from you while i'm there.

what vision. truly fabulous!

lovely stuff. first board I ever milled was the start of a love affair.. sanding the damn stuff down though always makes me sick. thnx for the compliments all...

not fetus, but that thing that bursts out of the gut in the Alien films,,, btw, stunning work - pure art,.