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Indeed! If I think about it a little more, it a 1 inch hazel, yew or ash walking stick air dried is very resilient, Out of a kiln it would snap like a matchstick under pressure.... Many ash tool handles on spades forks etc. seem the same as well. Found this.. This research seems quite empirical... http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/reports/1920/naca-report-68.pdf The Conclusion seems to be many timbers vary, but with many timbers kiln dried, toughness & resistance to shock will be damaged. That seems to match both your & my experiences.. Guess that means that's the reality...

I wood guess heating up anything with a substantial amount of water in it will soften it slightly? Its the basis of cooking really.. {mind you over cooked is the opposite.} But thats just my thoughts. I have no evidence. I am sure theres some out there though! To me kiln dried seems less tough than many air dried timbers as well.

Had the same problem historically, my collie still has... Focus on Good Food, Partner's, Family, collect something , read or try expanding life , try experiences & knowledge etc,etc. Takes time & practice, but it mostly seems to work in the end...

8 ft. Pollard?

Hardwood, Dozens of variety's, but obviously many less in the uk. Only had it twice, but great firewood & stump wood makes top wedges..

mmm I thought I was explaining my initial post more clearly to you... Sorry you've got your knickers in a twist... Personally I think its the potential makers duty to inform the client of the wrist... not just shout me first I ll do it. Would you make a gibbet for a depressed person to slow hang themselves? "Cos, its what they wanted?" Or would you try and delay matters till they were in a different frame of mind? Socialise with you? I wasn't realy offering.... But knock yourself out... all I did was hold up a mirror so you could see yourself more clearly...

Fascinating.... I was guilty of making a ethics call on your approach based the things you've posted on this on two threads of the same subject matter. So you You would happily make them for an ill informed customer, but as you also said. "I wouldnt use yew for chopping boards. not worth the risk." You then imagine my life & attack my morality? I was Not trying to make myself look better, I didn't read your post 3 years ago, I read it just before I posted, because I was genuinely shocked at the difference in approach in the 2 threads, 30 to 40 years ago I did stuff I'm not proud off, but I'm a growing developing being.....But in truth I wouldn't clamour to spread toxins onto peoples food knowingly....for some petty cash. To make a living one could always say, Ive got some great sycamore, beach , oak etc that I could make you some out off, because yew & laburnam are full of poisonous toxins. If they insisted...as you say that's there choice.{Possibly not the end of your legal liability though.} After all, I'm sure none of use would want to be seen have the morals or ethics of the petrochemical or drug industry.

Yes that makes sense, as you say , probably important to point it out to them though...

Fascinating difference from... From this thread...http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/milling-forum/52536-yew-chopping-boards.html Noticed that thread listed under this one.. Shocking really, your happy for others to eat and drink from it if you earn a coin or two, but personally you wouldn't touch it with a bargepole... Maggie woud have been proud of you...

Sorry for my lack of clarity..... The original medieval & ecclesiastical drinking vessels known as mazer or mazzers were originally made of field maple root burl I believe. From the German "mazer" for the knotty, birds eye type appearance of the maple stump wood. In later centuries lignum vitae became popular for the same as it was believed it imparted health giving chemcals into the wine. {The opposite of yew.}

In truth I just take this... "The toxicity of the taxine alkaloids detected in yew heartwood is not known. However, as the Kew chemists readily detected taxine contamination in wine into which yew wood had been placed, it would seem sensible to caution against testing Pliny’s observation and not drink wine from a yew wood utensil." Well we all take our choices and chances in life... For instance if you smoke tobacco, I wouldn't to worry about the goblet . ... Personally Id prefer the more traditional maple burl....Origin the term mazzer For a wooden drinking vessel. Or lignum vitae of course... Yew and laburnam our amongst my English grown favourite's but my chopping boards, Are Kent and Bodmin oak, Caribbean mahogany and Rock maple. I use burry yew for tables and dining trays though...

Fair enough! I think 4 was just checking! You never know on this forum! Dud is a thing that fails to work properly or is otherwise unsatisfactory or worthless. So I was just checking your context... Personally I've accessed it on a tablet and laptop and a desktop at 3 widely separate locations.... Does the rest of their website work for you?

In what sense? 1.The link doesn't work on your device? 2. you failed to understand it? 3. you disagree with there research? 4. you just don't give a toss?

Here a usefull link for you..... Analysis of yew wood | Kew News

Wrong! Yew berries are the only part that are not poison! The seed & everything else is. Laburnham has no berries, but is poisonness throughout. When cutting on chopping boards small particles of wood are removed with every cut... they end up in the food. You pays your money & takes your choice.....

Heart of a lion!

Rots like ash, no tylosis to prevent porosity. Good when thin quartersawn indoors though, lots of flash!

That ones from a slightly different genetic strain, the others are all inbred. Well I guess it is Bristol.......

The all 4 sentences show why you probably shouldn't have replied to this thread. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing & probably best not shared...

They give you a stronger straighter back to!

On occasion that's true... Well not since I got out of my silly twenties.. But I am in my 50s know if I had time to sell a tractor to pay the scum, then id probably find another solution in the same time. And yes I have encountered such scum in my life.

I doubt if they think there above the law, just as long as they "earn" thousands from the innocent, naïve or foolish every week, & police are to lazy to put enough work into catching them they will continue to do so. At least this bunch were jailed. I think the farmer should have had a another response though......

I thought farmers were a tougher breed...... Somerset brothers jailed for fleecing farmer out of £200,000 and threatening to kill him (From Somerset County Gazette)

Title says... Hadlow Down, E Sussex.

Definably! The softness & lightness as well. Id guess the rotten trunk shown could be chainsawed up & some go for turning? But the 7th devil can advise on that. If not firewood...