se7enthdevil
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i'm loving the charred outline on the trees, it makes it look like bark... do you think you'd be up for doing some lead casting for me?
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Au revoir, Rene Artois... i grew up watching allo allo and have many happy memories of watching this great comedy actor.
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there was a guy on ebay that had loads of wide boards but they were fresh. i'll see if i can find them.
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i use my pc as i don't have a phone, tablet or any other gadget to view it on. my tv acts as a monitor so i get nice big views of any pictures put up...
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will you consider other platter blanks if i can't find exactly what you desire??? i know i've things like elm, iroko, mahogany, oak and probably other species here.
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i'l see if i have anything like that kicking around. i won't want much for it if i have one and as long as you pay postage you are welcome to it.
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i always assumed its blunt blades as you get it on bandsaws too but it could be too fast a feed speed or just some sort of resonance?
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simple, it was sat on be a very large bird...:lol:
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beech ply is fairly common as far as i know. someone i know who makes skittle alleys for pubs and clubs uses only beech ply and i think it's pure beech ply 7 or 9 laminates.
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if you are questioning what that means it's a term used for logs that are of a high enough quality to be peeled for various veneer purposes. some can be decorative and some can be structural.
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what did beech do to be such a despised timber??? as long as it's not to be used for exterior purposes it's a perfectly good timber in my book.
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only ones for me are allo allo, porridge, blackadder 2 & 4 and possibly my favorite is red dwarf.
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i'd have it myself if i didn't already have about 350ft3 cut for skittle blanks.
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bit tricky to tell without seeing the grain but it looks a bit like either a scotty pine, douglas fir or larch...
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that is a gorgeous looking timber mate. why we don't we use more of it is still a mystery to me... any plans for it or might some be for sale when dry?
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stay away from yew and laburnum as people (other turners) have said that it can kill small mammals if used as bedding. i give all mine to a chicken farmer... he's never told me any birds get sick and i turn things like beech, sycamore, rowan, robinia, oak, ash, hornbeam, elm, sweet chestnut, field maple, boxwood, catalpa, walnut and cherry and they are just the ones that grow in this country. exotics include things like afara, padauk, bubinga, ansenfina, chenchen, makore, african walnut, angelim vermelho, lignum vitae, verawood, ipe, pink ivory, mgurure, afzelia, pau amarello, jarrah, opepe and wenge. if none of them irritate the animals i'm betting that anything you produce will be fine. it's good advice to not make it too dusty though.
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leylandii should not need any preservative as it is in the cypress family but belt and braces doesn't hurt i suppose... i'm surprised that you say that leylandii and willow are similar. i would have thought they would be quite different. i've never had any willow before as it's too soft for any of my needs.
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just saw this on youtube. i'm sure it took a long time to set up but the guy has style... [ame] [/ame]
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i bought this off ebay in 2012 delivered for £425 and just tarted it up a bit. i'd say it's 60+ years old and it still work perfectly. .
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depending on the timber you need only drill a small hole in the pith at the bottom of the pencil pot to stop splitting.
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i got these. describes the sorts of timbers used from all over the earth except russia and china. .
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yes, that's how i would make what you are describing... you can think of a lathe as a horizontal pillar drill. personally i think it is safer as the workpiece is held in a chuck and not free to spin with the drill as can sometimes be the case on a pillar drill... you need a jacobs chuck with a morse taper to match your tailstock for drilling.
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yes you can drill those out fairly easily. i have some large forstner bits but i haven't got round to using them yet. personally i'd use my lathe to do this. are you wanting to do them yourself or would you like my help?
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the best way to cut it up is to get it to a mill that has a circular saw. my 20" rip saw with TCT teeth goes through timbers like those fairly easily. bandsaws and chains are going to be blunted very quickly. how many beams are there?
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to which species of brazilian walnut are you referring? i know brazilian walnut as imbuia (ocotea porosa). Imbuia | The Wood Database - Lumber Identification (Hardwoods) but i suspect you are referring to ipe (handroanthus spp) which is like rock. http://www.wood-database.com/ipe/ where did you find such a piece???
