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  1. se7enthdevil
    that's the sort of thing i'm after, how much is there left?
  2. se7enthdevil
    cheers mate, i've nearly finished your elm and i'll get some pics up asap.
  3. se7enthdevil
    firewood is worth more now but it will never be worth as much as blanks or turning timber.
  4. se7enthdevil
    has anyone else got any samples?
  5. se7enthdevil
    you shouldn't have to make the blank. personally i am very happy to buy wood it's just that tree surgeons seem to have had such terrible times selling wood to turners that everyone thinks we are all stingy old farts that think they should be given the wood. i would happily pay double firewood prices and i'll do the cutting into blanks or roughs. if you have some nice bits i'd advertise it on your local woodturning club website or phone around a few turners. put up plenty of pics.
  6. se7enthdevil
    just a small block will do. the samples he likes are 4"x4"x1" as if cut from a milled board of timber. i can cut these myself and am perfectly happy to buy branches or rounds as on occasion i can give him a photo of a turned bowl as well. do you have any interesting woods?
  7. se7enthdevil
    could it just be that with the inevitable wear you get on all the metal the bits the band rides on they are just too worn to stop the bands jumping???
  8. se7enthdevil
    looks to be a good 2 1/2' wide. what trunk length before branching? should look great once milled.
  9. se7enthdevil
    how old is this particular stick then? also what diameter?
  10. se7enthdevil
    i would have thought the close proximity of the wall and the metal will always give you a smell of burning paint. get it back to brick...
  11. se7enthdevil
    hi all, as some of you may know i have been a contributor to the wood database website and intend to send another box of samples over the pond to add to the large array of woods that are already listed. can you help supply odd species of shrub or tree? i am looking for anything out of the ordinary. looking for any willows hop hornbeam, hazels, southern beeches, strange oak species, elms, zelkovas and nettle trees, fig or katsura tree, magnolias, hawthorns, rowans and unusual sorbus species, unusual prunus species, pagoda and strange acer's, paulownia, mana ash, and any unusual conifers please if you think you can help the please contact me through my website. samples need to be fairly clear and unspalted from a tree at least 8" wide. of course if any other exotice timbers are kicking around in your garage then i may be interested in them too.
  12. se7enthdevil
    well i don't know the cause but i reckon the grain must look quite spectacular inside. is it just one you saw or is it being felled?
  13. se7enthdevil
    someone has put a great sound track to this one, i'm pissing myself laughing here...:lol::lol::lol: . [ame] [/ame]
  14. se7enthdevil
    if anyone has done this then please put some videos up. . [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame]
  15. se7enthdevil
    i don't know what i'm thinking but i just don't think it's a beech or birch. i don't know if a pendula form of any populus species even exist but it looks like populus foliage so i thought i'd throw it in the ring.
  16. se7enthdevil
    close up of the leaves and bark may help but could it be a form of populus? the leaves look shiney and i've seen poplars with shiney leaves but not birch or beech.
  17. se7enthdevil
    every year i ask santa for this lovely lady to turn up on my doorstep. no luck as yet. .
  18. se7enthdevil
    if they are done in a solar kiln like polytunnels and greenhouses (or any other sort of solar kiln) then that's fine but if they are just left outside in fresh air then that's false advertising in my opinion.
  19. se7enthdevil
    exactly, solar kilns work just as well as other types of kilns. if your air dried logs are as good a moisture content than a kiln dried log then you can point that out but you should not be selling them as kiln dried.
  20. se7enthdevil
    if i had the dosh then i would be going for one of those.
  21. se7enthdevil
    i do that already with my 20" rip saw but was looking to cut logs through and through to get waney edged boards and get the maximum yield possible from each log. i've species like damson, lawsons, yew, catalpa, cherry and laburnum that i would like full width boards if possible. cutting like this gives me more opportunity to do a greater range of things once dry.
  22. se7enthdevil
    those ripsaws would be great if you could get them over here, i understand alec had quite a bit of trouble with shipping. it only goes up to 14" and i'd like the cut a bit bigger. i was hoping for something electrically powered.
  23. se7enthdevil
    i am starting to collect a few logs that are no bigger than 3'-6' long and 12"-16" wide. some are just to short and stumpy to put on standard band mills and using a chainsaw would waste too much timber. is there a band mill that can cut these small sizes as the wood is too nice to waste.
  24. se7enthdevil
    a slightly better version of that joint would be to make the peg a bit of an X shape holding the two mating faces together even more. only works on very dry beams though. interesting to see that the guy did most of it with handheld circular saws even though he has a perfectly good bandsaw behind him...
  25. se7enthdevil
    i was on the right track then. i'm getting better at this recognition thing...

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