se7enthdevil

not sure about the structural qualities of the dawn redwood but others may know. can't say i've ever heard of it being used. lime should only be used for picture framing, clogs, carving, turning, furniture or firewood.

:lol::lol::lol::lol: how did he make that film keeping a straight face?

good point, it's supposed to say "he slaughtered his way across the world up to eastern europe". i was not referring to european forests necessarily but asian and other continental ones. my point was that when forests get cut down they grow back when the land is vacated. on african plains elephants are destroyers of acacia trees by trampling them flat, they leave once all the trees are uprooted and only come back to the same area when the trees are big enough to yield a crop.

if you can get some, use robinia, it will outlast the lot.

if you can get leylandii in nice sections then mill it and use it. not sure about the stickiness as i've only turned a couple of bits. welly or cedar of lebanon is cracking stuff. lasts for decades.

i find this somewhat ironic. trees in the forest are growing happily, humans come along and cut them down, humans starve to death and the forests grow back. we cut down all the trees about 1000 years ago, then genghis khan slaughtered his way across europe and there was no one left to keep the trees at bay, they grew into the forest we have today.

that's one of the snakebarks, not sure which one though.

it does say "up to" guys... good cherry will not be cheap stuff. wholesale prices will be lower i admit but for one offs i would expect to have to pay at least £35ft3

that's a glass half full answer if ever i heard one. i am presuming that he would mill it himself or wait till there are more trees to make milling worthwhile. why does it cost hundreds for keeping it under cover?

sounds great when coming from through sets of braces from 15 year olds in their school tails.

as a log sold as is, £30-£50 as a bag of logs, £60-£80 as seasoned planks, £35-£45 per cubic foot there is about 9ft3 in that log. up to £360

i live in slough and am wondering what strip of land that will be stripped to generate that amount.

you have a dim view of the etonians don't you... most of the people who come to the fair are normal people but you do get some of the parents who have pockets down to their ankles and they are the ones who i want buying from me... the boys have stalls of their own trying to raise money for charity and listening to some of their conversations is hilarious. for instance, "oh hugo, come over here" "hello terance how are you today" "i'm spiffing thanks, listen we've got a job for you. tarquin, come here buddy, you and hugo need to go and help with the charity stall." "but i wanted to man the cake stall with philip and tristan! we were going to have a competition to see who could give away the most lemon drizzle, nah hahaha." "oh dude that sounds like fun but seriously you must go and help with the charity stall, leonard is on his own and he needs you to help with the charity auction." "sod it, ok laurence, we'll go and help leonard" "i'm not going to get any lemon drizzle am i hugo" "stop being daft tarquin, i'll go get you some cake before we leave" one year i will take a recorder and turn it into a script as when you sit there and listen to it you piss yourself laughing...

go right ahead mate, birch is a cracking timber and in russia they use it all the time.

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it could be something to do with deep hollowing but i can't be sure. try asking axminster or jet (presuming it was made by them that is) or you could scour the net for images of turning accessories.

you what????

i did my one and only annual craft fair yesterday at eton college and i reckon those would have sold quite well.

where abouts is it? in my opinion that can be turned in to loads of bowls or other items or it can me milled into 1" boards and turned into furniture.

how's that a hobby???

could something be made with old sleepers or machine mats?

just thought i'd be a nosey parker and ask what people's hobbies are. personally mine are watching motorsport, collecting and turning wood but my escape is playing tenpin bowling in a league. what do others do on their down time??? p.s. any other tenpin bowlers out there?

can no one help me out here???

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...

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...