se7enthdevil

here's what you can make with it mate.

not added anything on this thread for a while but i've just been best man at my brothers wedding and for him and his bride i'm putting together a kitchen set for use and abuse. so far there is a big beech rolling pin 3" thick, 4 sycamore spatulas, a herb chopping board and one for cheese too both in canadian maple and a pestle an mortar made from ekki. i intend to add a porridge spurtle, main chopping board, kitchen roll holder and possibly a juicer. .

agreed, tell her it won't last 12 months.

Ekki | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Hardwoods)

it's called ekki but also known as azobe.

it has character... something usually lacking in boards from trees that every mill demands are 100% perfect, straight and clean...

for such colour in the beech ringing that up would be sacrilege.

i cant reply to your pm heres what i wrote. no problem but i hate typing and we can discuss so much more over the phone so give me a call. 01628666191

beau, the drying rates of the different grain orientations i'm already aware of and am not surprised by the results you arrived at, i'm more interested in the drying rates of different species like oak, beech, catalpa, rowan and any other species you can think of. for example, hornbeam lost between 25-30% but laurel only lot 20% max. my two field maple have lost 30% but the winner so far is liquidambar at 35% and its not finished yet. i am interested to know if any one had taken note of the percentages of weight lost by roughed out bowl blanks before.

i've been turning a lot of wet wood in to rough bowls recently and just wondered if anyone had taken notice of just how much weight some timbers loose? the question is what timber looses the highest percentage???

large straight pines like that would make excellent joinery timber. a sawmill should be interested.

there are turner that wish you to give the wood up for free but i'm not one of them and i think they are in the minority to be fair people like me slackbladder and other turners would be happy to pay fairly for what we buy. please don't tar all turners with the same brush, were not all miserly old gits who think all wood should be free. holm oak would not be used in the traditiomnal sense for beams, benches or floorboards but would be used as a decorative timber for furniture like coffee tables cabinetry or turning. it would be treated the same as brown oak.

always leave it as boards then the crafts person be them a turner or otherwise can do with it as they please. this is less work for you and the wood can be made in to more than bowls if desired. i would say 2"+ is of interesting size to a turner and if the cabinet maker wants it thinner then it can be resawn once seasoned. not everything need be milled so even less work for you. burs cut off the tree or halved crotches yield some lovely looking bits of wood. pricing does depend on the species but they don't go much higher than what you can get from the lumber yards. per ft3 here is what i'd expect some to be, plain timber, oak, beech, chestnut, ash, sycamore, robinia, cedar, pine, yew, hornbeam and lime no more than £20 we figured versions £30+ (dependent on figure) highly burred or rippled £45-£50 with other curiosity species probably £35-£40 anything green i would not expect to pay more than £15ft3, this is much higher than any firewood price and some turners use what would be firewood had the not rescued it

getting my cubes and squares crossed again... don't think i read the question properly.

depends on the species. most will kd quite happily but there are plenty that need wax protection on the ends to stop major splits developing.

rule of thumb is a year per inch but that's not always right. some can dry out quicker and some much slower.

not surprised, anything in the prunus genus is sought after really.

yes odd bits are sought after because nobody keeps them. the current thinking seems to be that if it ain't oak, beech, ash, chestnut or sycamore then it should go on the log pile. not so us turners will turn anything that is turnable. just look at the bit of catalpa i rescued from nepia that could have gone on the log pile. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/woodcraft-forum/65439-bowl-turning-thread-20.html

would be great to know the exact species designation, there are so many...

thebit that is in my hand is a 1/4" slice and have bought it in the house to see what it does. i'll let you know. i've also put the log in the shop rather than outside.

at the bottom of page 15 stihlben showed some pictures of his and it looks nice enough.

that's unusual for a mag, i usually see these things splitting at the base in to two or three stems.

try and get q,sawn boards if you can as the rays look great. worth milling though... count the rings would you. be interested to know how long it takes to get to 30".

noooooooooo use a saw, i tried spliting abit of laurel to get a nice clean pair of halves but it turned out to be really twisty and one half ended up in flames. something that size should be split cleanly through the pith with a sharp chain. if its 20"diameter how long is it?

looking at it im not sure it would be suitable? your choice.