se7enthdevil

surely if he were to gather the bottom 3-4m of each butt and mill those before making kindling out of the rest he would have a better return. yes it means getting a mill in but £400 for the day and a dozen butts or more to mill must make sense over turning the whole lot into firewood?

i have seen blistered beech like that on pics on the net. also seen redwood burr look like that too.

there is a listing on woodlots from someone offering £250 per cubic foot of pure white holly timber. here is part of the advert. Holly, Clean White Dry Boards Wanted £250 a cubic foot paid for dry, white Holly boards. All thicknesses considered. Must be white, white, white! Lymington, Hampshire look on this page for the advert listed on 21/6/15 WoodLots

they are monsters for holly. i'd get that milled and get it to a kiln asap to preserve the colour. if the base is a 3' long and wide then i'd offer it to a luthier. try not to waste holly that size.

hornbeam will be useless for exterior projects as it's in the birch family and lasts about 5 minutes outdoors. if you want to keep oak rings for bird tables then drill out the middle (1" will do) and re-plug once dry. you can seal with paint or wax but to be fair i would expect to lose a fair few. for the house name plates i would go for diagonal cut birch cut at about 55 degrees perpendicular to the bole.

judging by the picture, really small ones:001_tt2:

i'll take it...

still looking for unusual species so feel free to email me a list of what you might be felling in the near future as i can tell you if there is anything i might want.

as per title, just wanted to know if it's any good. i know it's near blenheim palace and has steam engines and a sawmill there so want to go but was curious to know if anyone has been?

i can't do that as i am turning skittles and spalted timber is really light and weak compared to clean timber. i need beech and sycamore that is solid and reliable. i turned one set a few weeks ago and they were spalted as it was the last i had of beech that's dry so i turned it. as you can see, they are not the most spalted timber but spalted they are and they have failed with large chips being knocked off the ends...

try these things, they are a bit expensive if you've lots to cover but i've had 4 of the 20' ones for 5 years and they still look as good as the day i got them. 10ft x 20ft Reinforced Heavy Duty PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) Sheets | eBay 10ft x 40ft Reinforced Heavy Duty PVC (Polyvinyl Chloride) Sheets | eBay they are tough ass old boots...

well i'd like some leylandii for turning so if anyone gets the job let me know...

my very first purchase of green timber was sycamore squares when i first started turning skittles and i had the same problem with a white fuzzy mould growing over most surfaces. i bought a large bottle of dettol and sprayed the lot on and off for the next couple of days, not sure if it's the best thing to do but it worked.

azobe and ekki are the same species... you may have to sharpen your chain more frequently but unless you hit gravel or grit all the time you should be ok.

i'm a bit like that too as my span is 6' 6" but then i am 6' 3" tall. i also have problems with shirts or t shirts as my neck is about 20" in circumference and need some slim fit shirts (if i ever wear them) but more the problem for me are t shirts as if i find one that fits then i can't get my head through the hole so end up cutting the collar clean out to create my own fashion of vee neck t shirts that actually fit me.

alder is non reactive to uv light so that won't help...

my annoyance is more the fact that they use sizes at all. instead of saying XL why not just give the inch size it is made to fit then there would be no confusion at all.

got really annoyed recently when i received a nice birthday present that doesn't fit. my family know i'm big and i was bought a jacket to wear in the workshop to act as a smock. an xl size was bought and the size was supposed to be 50'' chest. i'm a 48'' chest so that was perfect. guess what, it didn't fit. the label inside the jacket did say XL but the size it stated next to it was 42"-44". i also recently bought (as a treat to myself) a really nice leather jacket second hand off of ebay and it was XXXL so that was bound to fit me wasn't it. no, it's too small... made by a company called "helium 2" i could find no sizing chart on their website but thought surely a triple xl size would easily fit me. it fits my uncle and he is a 42"-44" why can the world not use a standard set of sizes rather than putting a bunch of letters on the product that mean different things in different shops. rant over... does anyone else have trouble getting sizes to fit them???

send me a bit if you want and i'll try to id it properly.

i'm excited big j. here is some of the field maple i've turned. never let it go to waste. .

looks more like a softwood to me, i'd say a fir or a pine myself.

any timber cracking as you cut is purely down to stresses in the timber and them being released as you make the cut.

appears to be ash mate. good looking stuff too.

that's why i need a look at the grain as i was thinking elm but need to see the rings to be sure. in my experience elm usually fades into the sapwood rather than the sharp demarcation we can see here so i reckon it is a bit of ash but you never know.

mick, i'll need a close up of the grain before i commit to an answer. is it heavy, hard or soft. any distinctive smell?