se7enthdevil
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agreed.
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presuming you are referring to cherry laurel then yes once dry it burns like stink...
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How should I treat these yew slices?
se7enthdevil replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Woodcraft Forum
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i may become a customer in the future if you build one? where are you exactly?
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if you find one round here then let me know as i couldn't.
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now that's what you call a stick... some sizes would help and where is it?
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he's a different fella jon, he just decided to take the page down because he thought it was cluttering up the site. this is it if you are interested. http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/indextotal.htm
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rather annoyingly that species has been removed from the database as it was too obscure apparently but i'll ask him if he can share the photos he has of the timber so i can compare.
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that's interesting guys, i considered the pagoda tree when jon first offered it to my but like some of you i had discounted it because of the bark. can you be absolutely sure that that is what it is???
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is there any chance it could be the thornless honeylocust? we thought that it was laburnum but i thought laburnum leaves were supposed to be trifoliate? also i've never seen bark like that on a laburnum trunk... it should be fairly smooth rather than coarse.
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pictures might help. without them the only guess you'll get is tree wood.
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other than being full of tannin i don't think it's going to suppress anything to be honest. as it's going on a compost heap the compounds would most likely get broken down by fungi and bacteria anyway...
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if you are sure it's dogwood and there is anything 4" or bigger i'd love a bit of that for turning.
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the normal wood is quite soft in my book (but then i do work with wood three times harder than the uk ones) and the knots are like glass once dry. unless it is 3-4' diameter it's only of use to a local woodturner and not all turners like it. i don't.
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i think it's just a soft pith that you can poke out rather than being hollow. i'll confess to having never actually had some so i could be wrong but i believe it is very similar to ailanthus in that respect and there is a good half inch soft pith in that. if anyone has any paulownia i'd love to have some to turn just to try it.
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i believe that the larger leaves are down to repeated pruning and i think you can get the same results with a catalpa...
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i got it from ebay with delivery on a pallet and it takes up to 12" for the planer and will thickness about 4- 4 1/2" i think.
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putting it in the kiln breaks down too much of the lignin in the wood so i air dry all the timber myself. i don't think you can successfully KD 5-6 1/2" stock anyway as it will split quite a bit.
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i managed to get a good second hand one refurbished for only £845 (pictured) a few years ago so keep looking around mate. ebay is a good place to start. cast iron ones are the best but make sure it runs ok first. .
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sounds good, do you know of any local millers?
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still looking for some nice sycamore guys. the need to be decent sized trees and preferably taller or forest grown ones that will season better. i need a few cubic meters of freshly felled sycamore as i need the drying process to start asap.
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nice looking bit of planetree...
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i'm guessing you as he is coming to see me next week. what thickness is the elm milled at???
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some nice walnut you have there, and what's that first one? a bit of oak burr?
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hi alex, give me a bell mate. i need shot of lots of timber and i've loads of very rippled ash, loads of laburnum, some box, some field maple and loads of other stuff i just want gone mate. i will have a few burs kicking about too.
