se7enthdevil
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the cone on a yew is almost microscopic. basicly it's inside the red berry. never looked at one my self, i must do that once the yews start fruiting
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technicaly a softwood is anything that produces a cone i.e. the conifers. softwoods are gymnosperms where as all hardwoods are angiosperms. not all hardwoos are deciduous and not all softwoods are evergreen. also some softwoods can be very hard and hardwoods can be very soft. in answer to the question cedar is a softwood. .
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i think i might watch it if all the inbred self harming drug addicted air thiveing criminal guests were guillotined at the end of the show.
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i hope a grand old tree like that hasn't just become firewood... thats the sort of beech i would have to use for my skittle blanks. any chance of big j having it so he can mill it up for me? .
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hey woodworks, northcountryboy is right ian leach should be the man for the job as he's been doing plenty over the last few weeks. .
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the yanks for some reason use the name sycamore for the platanus genus so sycamore is planetree. no idea how plane splitts as i've never had any. anyone know??? .
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sad to hear the news that one of my favorite comidiens has had prostate surgery and is being treated for parkinsons. i hope he gets better (as good as you can with that anyway) as i've still not seen him live and would very much like to one day soon all the best mr conolly. .
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why am i not suprised that osage orange tops that table... if only we had hedge rows of that stuff on our shores.
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i'm having not to be tight with it at the moment as this past year the skittle buisness has taken off and as i cut up my slabs of sycamore to turn into skittles i get so much in the way of offcuts it unreal. all the waney edges get trimmed and cut up first then once the blanks are cut to length i usualy have 3-4" that i've cut off either end to get rid of the splits and boy do they pile up quick. over the past 6 moths i've filled two builders bags and have at least one more sitting in the workshop ready to be cut into manegable legnths for the fire, plus im still getting orders. 3-4 cube should be plenty for our little fire... .
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i've always wanted to make one of them but no ones asked me yet. i have had lots of orders this year thanks and the years not over yet... made this today as well, its for a version called hood skittles or northamptonshire table skittles. a set of nine of these were knocked over with the cheese pictured beside it. its only 6" tall.
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cheers bud. i'm trying a few sizes and shapes that are not usually seen in a skittle alley, like the first one. i 'm trying to be sure i can make what the customer wants if they ask for it.
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need to be dry but yew and leylandii are great in my opinion... just burnt some deodar cedar and was great stuff to start it off.
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i made these,
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genraly i'm happy to resist untill about 10 degrees in just jeans and a t'shirt but my mum is an o.a.p. so have to think of her a little bit. i have told her how to keep all the heat in though as she will happily sit there wasting money with the curtains open and doors ajar letting all the heat escape. .
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i relented tonight and finally lit the fire as it was down to 16 degrees in the living room. i'm trying to just use the fire and not the central heating to save dosh. as a woodturner i've plenty of offcuts to burn so dont need to buy logs. has anyone else sparked up yet??? .
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a table sound just the job however i'd be tempted to go for 6-8" legs considering the size of the top. 4" legs may look spindly and lost but it depends what the customer wants. lets see some pics when its done... .
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hi ian, you are ulikely to get a bit of genuine lignum that size in one piece. in fact you are not likley to find much genuine lignum at all. argentine lignum is your best bet for that size but even that will be a challenge so i recomend putting two or three bits together. what is a block that size for??? if timberline doesnt have any then know one will. i can guarantee you that as i buy lignum for my skittle balls and not many people keep it...
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i'll have a go, pm sent .
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the mahogany species are genraly a joy to cut but im sure you do get specimins that have silica in them. there are a few that are renound for having a silica content one of which is teak but the worst ones i know of are balau meranti and keruing, all of which are in the dipterocarpaceae and come from indonesian areas. im sure most trees can have a higher silica content than normal as its all down to growing conditions and the mineral content of the soil. i believe some of the most difficult ones to mill are in south america but there are hard woods all over the world.
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if it was dark red then that sounds like it could have been the ekki as its also known as iron wood cause it realy is rock hard and will have undoubtably been used as ballast too because it wont float.
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not that i've ever done any milling but i believe that reclaimed greenheart and ekki are two of the hardest. Greenheart | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Hardwoods) Ekki | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Hardwoods) there will be a few others but if were sticking to british timbers i believe hornbeam is one of the toughest
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if theres so much to do up there then go into buisness. with so many trees you wont be out of work much... -
my word thats a big old beast.... if there are any decent bits that you could mill in to 6 1/4" squares let me know as i'd be interested as i need them for my skittles... .
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well if you do i can do either a whole day (7-8 hours) or just a couple of hours at a time but thats up to you. james (muttley9050) is giving his other half lessons from me as a birthday gift and thats for the day. the cost is £100 which covers materials too. there will be a whole multitude of thing that could be turned depending on your skill level.
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well as i said the offers there if you want it... .
