se7enthdevil
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i got lucky when looking through a web page and saw pictures of the endgrain which were a dead give away. holly someone did suggest that the bark was similar to a holly so when i was looking through the wood identification website i clicked on to holly to see if there were any that looked like it, nearly halfway down the page i saw the very distinctive grain of the osmanthus he's taken photos of...
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i know this is an old thread but i just thought i'd let eberyone know that i did eventually i.d this timber. it's from a species called false holly or holly olive, osmanthus spp. this would have been planted by some dignitary in the grounds of windsor great park in about 1935...
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scots pine produces a very good quality timber if harvested from mature trees. well worth turning into boards in my opinion.
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makes nice timber, how big is it?
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that would keep me busy for a while...
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could you elaborate as to exactly what you want by a bit different? any internet pics might help?
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hi all i'm looking for small amounts of any of these timbers and was hoping someone can help. they will be for exterior usage so no substitutes. 1" thick boards 10"-12" wide please. -
i'd say it's a work of art rather than a bench mate. top work.
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you only need 3 or 4 from each bit in my opinion to make it worth it (unless you love making nests), i got 101 bowls from around 30 blocks cut from a load of walnut that delabodge gave me and i only use a woodcut bowlsaver. the mcnaughton is too much dosh unless they are all you make.
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nice bowls mate, envious of your lathe too, i wish i had one of them...
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it doesn't matter if they don't as i know that i'm an insufferable knowitall but i'm stuck like it... do they get lots of timber from you?
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i've just had a butchers at serenity drums and they are works of art. i'm surprised that they use timbers with such an open pore structure like oak and iroko as i thought that this would inhibit the movement of sound in the wood but they are obviously happy with the sounds that they make. i did have to correct one of their posts though as they said that ekki is rare (no it's not) and that it's in the top 5 hardest wood list (no it's not) but that's just me being a insufferable knowitall...
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both ekki and greenheart have silica in them but i believe both are a bugger with bandsaws. i have cut both using a circular saw and they cut exceptionally well.
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if you are using a band mill then quintuple the price of a normal job and if you only have a chainsaw then get a band mill... in suranim they often wrap the tree in a chain after it comes out the back of the blade as they have been known to explode but this is rare. someone on here milled a load of greenheart for his brothers fence and there was alot of work involved... page 10 of this thread. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/alaskan-mill/9883-pics-your-milled-products-10.html
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my 20" rip saw is about 70 years old and the surface planer although refurbished is the same sort of age. both are going fine after all these years. my 6 year old lathe has already had a new set of bearings.
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call it a bi product and its value will go up...
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the peltor optime III muffs that i use are 35snr 3M PELTOR H540B Hearing Protector Optime III Neckband Type One Size 1 | eBay
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Smallest diameter worth milling ?
se7enthdevil replied to arboriculturist's topic in Panther Mill UK
for those species i'd say 16" and up but it depends in the species really for laburnum, birch, apple, pear or any other species that rarely gets up to 16" the 10"+ is worth it in my opinion. -
don't know much about different ones but i use peltor optime III
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i have some heavily rippled sycamore. there is also plenty of slightly spalted sycamore. pm sent.
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it's my opinion that something of great size or age should go to be something other than firewood. i know it's a dream but if there is space then you get more money from a tree through milling than if you just sell it for firewood. yes it's a bigger outlay of money initially but if you do it all the time you get a greater return.
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if it's 5' in diameter then the timber should be milled by someone as it's very good at lasting outdoors.
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cabinet maker, making whatever the hell i want regardless whether or not someone has commissioned it.
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if it's huge, why not mill it and make more than you would from firewood...
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the firewood would be just to fill it up if i don't have enough boards but i may start in the firewood trade if it looks like it's worth it. i won't be using it often but i would like one to have as an option rather than leaving stuff outside all the time. 12-15 would be all i go down to for boards unless you live in the middle of the namib desert. 20% should be ok for firewood as that's all i'd get air drying anyway. i must grab a log this winter and test what some of my logs are actually at.
