se7enthdevil
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Everything posted by se7enthdevil
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so the've not tried robinia then? give it a go as it has many of the qualities of ash in my opinion and won't break as easily as maple does.
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read the first page mate.
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i bet robinia would make a good stick?
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is the timber under a branch with the same shape useable?
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a lovely bit of figured field maple here and then a nest of two in robinia. if ailanthus isn't underrated then robinia certainly is in my opinion. a beautiful timber that finishes so easily and has so many uses but really only gets put on the fire... .
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a couple of exotics here, the brandy glass is made from bubinga and the plate is a wood called ansenfina. .
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more like laziness terry, just couldn't be bothered to put them up sometimes. could add loads more.
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i believe justin131 now has about 300ft3 milled and is trying to get it kilned but he'll need to verify that.
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i've rescued a few hundred bowls trapped inside trees:thumbup:
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a couple of very yellow cherry bowls, and a heavily rippled ash 20" across. .
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two bowls in the very underappreciated tree of heaven. also a pic of the underside of one showing the lovely yellow streak you sometimes get near the outer edge of the tree. .
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a branch from a walnut tree. .
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these two are a bit of sycamore that was dead standing (hence the dark colours) and a very colourful bit of cherry that was from the base of the tree. .
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finally got round to getting the snaps off my camera. these three are catalpa. .
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here is a bowl turned from one of these trees. justin kindly sent me a block. it was ever so slightly spalted but looks very nice. the bottom two picture have the most realistic colour. .
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asa fellow copper top i love this song... . [ame] [/ame]
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the pith is the very center of the tree. as the tree dries it will concentrate the compression around the pith and lo and behold you get a radial split like a missing pizza slice... drilling the pith allows it to get compacted without tension building up in the outer rings resulting in a split. trees with natural holes in the pith like monkey puzzle, ailanthus, walnut and catalpa all survive with little or no radial splitting.
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oooohh, you lucky git... got any spare?
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i love timber but i don't sing to the stuff.
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darkening will happen with age as far as yew is concerned, danish oil will also darken it a bit and give you the option of applying many coats and buffing it...
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i would winch it back up to the road level and do as muttly says, milling it on site is so much easier than taking it to a sawmill. cheaper too.
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£250-£300
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here you go, pale banana yellow when dry... .
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i suppose the colour doesn't matter it's just that i have seen very yellow cherry before and it looks lovely... i'll see if i have a pic.
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those logs look ok jon. strangely yellow, i've only seen that twice before.
