se7enthdevil

ditto

hi all, i've got a problem and need help. i just bought a couple of planks of field maple off of pup and i'm not questioning that that is indeed what it is. i am questioning whether the bit i got from savill gardens is or not. the wood looks very similar but the bark is different. can you post pictures of the bark of field maple trees young or old so that i can compare the barks i have here. i'll get some pictures up asap. thanks in advance Steve

the 58 quid was the labour without vat... how can i service it myself? i don't really know much about chainsaws and need someone to walk me through it. if anyone is in the area i'd be very grateful if they could help me out, tea or coffee is at the ready...

they were done weeks ago, i'll just have to hope that they will turn off. never seen it before but then again i never turned this much wet wood before. considering they were turned wet on the 9th they have already lost 20% in weight without degrade.

hi all, just wondered how much a chainsaw servicing should cost? i've an 084 recently purchased from john p and he said it could do with a service. i've been quoted £58 +parts (if needed)+vat is that good?

if you do it by hand then make sure the blade is dam sharp.

has anyone seen this bluing on field maple before? they are currently two rough tuned bowls but they were a perfect creamy colour when turned and as the surface dried out over the next couple of days it turned this blueish grey colour. will it turnout or is it permanently stained. what caused it?

the first pic is the un-turned side, doesn't look that spectacular does it? then see the underside of the blank...

oh, is that the blue cedar you won on ebay?

a close up of the grain would be nice. in those pics it looks like a bit of sycamore or lime but doubt it. give me some close ups and i'll try my best

poor tree...

holm oak is the hardest stuff i know of but it could have been a "live oak" which usually grows in the states but is so hard canon balls bounced off it...

having just turned some that i got from pup, i really want to make this drum from field maple, it's bloody gorgeous stuff. any one who logs up a field maple should be shot... so full of figure its unreal.

some quality pieces there ben, well done

please don't get me wrong gents, i too wish this venture all the best. i think i came across as a little thorny in my first post i meant to criticise constructively not be harsh. i merely thought that the cut size was a bit small if it's meant to be a milling saw and did not know that there were any requirements for such guards by the authorities. i do see the use of this saw as slightly different than putting a whole loge in there though, i see it as re-sawing baulks of timber say for fencing or cladding rather than milling the entire log. is that just me as a joiner thinking though?

these show the process and the end product

can you not see what it is in the photos on the website link?

i dont know if i want it dripping but freshly felled anytime of year was what i had in mind.

thanks jon but i fear they will be cracked at some point and i cant have that.

i'm afraid i'd have to agree with big j, i believe that i'm your market as i would like to have a saw that could do what you offer but it's just too small and too expensive for what it is. if i was to design something like that i would make a ripsaw that could cut 12-16" but not have "mdf" on the sliding table, it should be all steel. the cover should be disposed of in my opinion and if a cover is required then have a heavy duty version of a blade cover like you get on hand held circular saws, retractable as the log passes and spring loaded so it pops back as soon as the log is cut. it seems like you made a static lucas, just not quite as useful.

the population has more than tripled in the last 150 years or so simply because we've made break through's in medical science. this has coincided with innovations of the human side of things and manipulation of our natural environment. do people think that there will be no consequences... also for the billions of years that "weather" has been around, you can not compare our few hundred years of records to the historical one. as far as the earth is concerned the last few hundred years have been relatively clement and things are probably just getting back to normal. difflock's right, the earth has changed the climate around many times before, why should it stop for us. i don't think Darwin was 100% right with survival of the fittest. it should also be survival of the least foolish. you live on a flood plain you run the risk. by the way i live in the Thames valley...

well said sir

hi guys, i'm looking for some timber for a drum shell that i've been asked to make and was hoping to find something on here. ideally it would need to be freshly felled about, 16"-18", a non ring porous timber and with no visible flaws at all. you can see some examples of what i've been asked to make here, Gallery of images of Hovland snare drums woods typically used for drum making are maple and birch but the customer is willing to look in to other woods too. if the wood is highly contrasting (like a walnut) then please make sure that the heartwood is at least 15" as the finished shell is to be 13 7/8" timbers i'll consider are, field maple silver maple norway maple sycamore alder yew silver birch downy birch hornbeam cedar eucalyptus pear cherry walnut nothofagus tulip service tree sweetgum plum the finished depth of the drum is 8" so i think any rings cut need to be 10" but i'd rather do that for myself. a short log 3-4' would be fine. .

brown oak is not a specific species but instead it's been infected by the beefsteak fungus (Fistulina hepatica) which over a period of time turns the wood brown. i've only ever heard it applied to english oak (quercus robur) but i'm sure that it will live on others too

plenty of people trying to play the blame game and saying not enough is being done but when it's coming up through the water table there is nothing that can be done unless you can magic trillions of tons of water to the ocean