se7enthdevil
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seems simple enough and it works. i remember someone telling me when i was young that you can achieve so much if you use the laws of physics... just wish i knew the laws of physics!!!
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it's people like that that make me wish he would win the award, not just be a contender... plonker
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doesnt supprise me. most people pooh pooh using softwood posts but things like leylandii do very well with no preservative. i still think you can beat a recycled greenheart pile though as they will last 30 years plus...
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having had a closer look i'm starting to think it's no sycamore now... could it be a liquidambar??? they are quite scaly all over...
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try and keep each post as quarter sawn as possible. this should aid the preventing of splits in each post. as agg221 has said the center post is usually the only one to split as the heart is present.
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i cant say i've studied the scaliness of sycamores but from, what i've seen the younger branches seem to differ as to whether they are scaly or not but i think slasherscot is probably right with his statement...
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2nd that...
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hi there,would love to see a photo of the bark if possible. do they know which species of liquidambar it is??? I've just got what i believe is sweetgum but am not sure. if you don't mind i need a pic of the bark and if it does get pollarded a pic of the end grain of the biggest bit that's removed. it would be a great help if i could id this bit of wood i have i have.
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not sure that's true, i watched that tudor farm thing and when it came to christmas they pointed out that the holly tree had a mythical property to it so they only took the leaves (hence the holly inside at christmas) but they never felled the tree as they believed the tree would be hurt and the spirit angered. when they did the victorian farm they did have a yule log but i think it was oak or ash. big bugger though about 18"X30" i think... no wonder it took ages to burn.
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i'm sure you can get them custom made to fit in your pyrography pen but don't know where you go to get that... i made my own recently to mark my skittles, nothing fancy just ans SWS for Steve's Wooden Skittles to show that they were made by me. i let it sit in the fire and use pliers to hold it whilst i brand each pin. your mate richard maynard just invested in a laser machine so if you have toms to mark up maybe you could get one too? i contacted these guys a long time a go but i never took it any further as i couldn't decide what to ask for, you might do better Metal Stamps & Dies and Engraving | METAL STAMPS
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i'd say they are tricky rather than impossible. you need to dry them very slowly but to be fair they don't have much use as planks as they don't get used for furniture really. they would be much better cut and milled in to waney planks to be cut in to bowl blanks when dry or cut straight in to squares ready for turnery. i'd be very surprised (and disappointed) if a turnery shop that milled there own blanks did not want them...
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for green i would expect to pay £20ft3 but if it was seasoned £40-£45. depends on quality...
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good point about the central heating... it's a corner unit. the drawer pivots out...
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i've just seen some of that 20mm upvc foam cored stuff that H-A told me about and it looks like it might be useful as it happens my neighbor is having a new front door fitted and he had some on his van. i could not squeeze my nail in to the core and although relatively flexible (in a 3m length) i think it might be just the job... before i order any would anyone like to come in with me on this experiment??? i was going to get 10 lengths of 5 meters. anyone interested.
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i thought that doing it this way i would be making something more stable than mdf or ply as they can expand or separate and then the veneer would peel off at the edges. in the end the two sides and a shelf were created using this method, the shelf was a solid bit of tulip rather than staves and none of it has budged an inch. have i just been lucky?
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sounds like i did mine the wrong way then... i thought that when i did it i was doing what our granddads generation did and they churned out some decent goods...
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each to there own. i found it great stuff to use though, back when i was employed as a joiner we use to use mdf to veneer on to and there were always problems hence why i have such a hate of the stuff now. when i did it for college i was the only one but the others all had warping of some degree after it cam out the press, i assume mine didn't because they are both wood and move together. it was only pva bonded. if you get any spare time beau make up a sheet of 24"x 48" x 12" and veneer it with scraps, once it's dry in the press it shouldn't move an inch. i said to my teacher that 250 years of this method cant have been wrong.
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it equates to 1.25ft3. to work it out i have a little book that explains it thusly. 1 hoppus foot = cylinder, 1ft long girth of 4ft, so basically if you have a log of 48" girth then it'll be really easy to work out. 48" girth equates to a log 15 1/4" in diameter and 12" of that log equals 1.26843166927 cubic feet. rounding off you might call it 1.27 but as a rough estimate 1.25 does me fine.
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have you considered using tulip for core material and veneering over the top. i made a corner unit in ash and wanted to use solid timber throughout but with the panels that are against the wall i glued 2" staves of tulip together and veneered over them. it was lighter than mdf (i hate that stuff) and is dimensionaly stable. it wont matter what it looks like as it'll never be seen.
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wouldn't use a panel saw as they aren't designed for rough lumber. i've offered my ripsaw though, goes through 6"+
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where are you danny? you can use my ripsaw if you like...
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Is Eucalyptus a good wood to work with?
se7enthdevil replied to dannytreacy's topic in Woodcraft Forum
if your'e going to use it for fire wood then cut it into log size you are going to put on the fire straight away as you cant split that stuff... to use for your purposes you can wait for he whole log to semi season (takes a few years) and then get it milled. see this thread to see what i mean. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/milling-forum/45162-anybody-milled-eucalyptus.html what sort of sizes are these bases? -
a 2' square gate post, what the hell is it holding???
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i'd go for the timberking as i've heard alot of people saying how expensive it is to fix woodmizers.
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sounds more like a small tree than a bush... 14" is plenty to play with and its really good for woodturning. is it really knotty??? pictures?
