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Best made into something in one large piece id guess, to minimise cutting & assuming lots of shake from being put on a fire when green. A single block coffee table, hollowed & cut out to leave the legs, or maybe even 2 matching small trunk tables at that width. Where are you based? If in west country Id love to give it a go...

Looks good! Are any of the pieces including sapwood? {Particularly the outside cut slabs?} Or has that all rotted off over the years or been sanded away?

Real Railway sleepers are thicker than 100mm?

Grows faster & rots quicker...

You need to hope it is... its to close to your house...

quarter sawn has less wastage & more stable, so better for legs, rails frames etc. indeed any structural joinery, but flat sawn is often pretty in elm, but lots more wastage due to warp & twist. best for display fronts on draws & chest & table tops... So I guess it depends on what you want to make? Guess I d go for the first length butt 12ft flat sawn & the rest quatered, & split os course split the the pith boards on the butt as well. Then you've got plenty of both.....

Looks like fairly old growth Douglas fir & plantation grown pitch pine to me....

Go for European larch,the others grow faster but are less durable....

They were waiting to see if it had a tracker on it. They or a mate can probably see where it was left.

Cool! Nicest fitting drawers Ive ever laid my hand upon, {when dealing with woodwork anyway } where by David Charlsworth , totally amazing, like ball bearings lubricated with butter, running on ice, but he likes to work to thousandths of an inch on everything. He keeps them in the back room of his workshop show people , how good & smooth drawers really can be. I guess in central heating they may not stay as workshop built? due to humidity?{ Depending on species...} But I might be a little cynical... But either way sadly mine will never be like that...

Terrys certainly got a lovely tool cupboard he made to store his Japanese chisels indeed. {Only thing made by him Ive seen.} I didn't realise he trained under Savage? What was the piece, & what made it "The best" for you?

The anticipation is killing me! Did you get it? is it milled, it looks a very special piece to me & I burn sometimes burn exotic timbers for firewood! {Storage/time Quantity, its cold etc.}

Same days then, that where I met him! {The little place down the side road by the coal merchants...} I think it was profitable for him, he still doing it now, every time he went bust, somehow or other he was up & running in a few months. Many local suppliers & small businesses were left rather unhappy though. I met Malcom a couple of times, he was skilled, but I loved Savages design flair & unconventional but still traditionalist approach. Yes the refit yard at Appledore, not the new build... Interesting place! A few characters there. Your were lucky get that start in woodwork!

Way to go...

He was only a Seargent ..Who is know in charge part time... . the higher ranks inspector etc... have already been removed from that area as part of cut backs.. Along with 90% of the pcs...

No that costs lots of money.... I was working in the local shipyard & making my own furniture , in my own time using there 1930s machinery, {36 inch circular saw & 8ft/ 24 inch wide....long planer thicknesseser etc.} When ever I got stuck & confused if the couple of remaining the old time fishing boat builders couldn't help me I went & asked David...{off the cuff.} He seemed to love that as he said that's what he did in the east end as a lad.. he did what he could & when stuck went & asked someone who knew the answer. to a particular problem...That's how he learnt from the old east end mostly Jewish cabinet makers & wood crafters... Later I did work for another very well known cabinet maker , who had previously paid David many,many thousands to learn his trade... He was very bitter that I had been generously helped for free, while he had paid fortunes to work on projects that where then sold for fortunes to Japan or the Emirates... But he {not David. but his then well known previous student.} was a rather lower the sort of chap who wouldn't share his 2lt. bottle of Evian with you on an outside construction /assembly job that you hadn't been forewarned about on very hot sunny day.. while he mostly sat in the 4x4 under a large beech tree. while 2 of us did all the siteing, ground prep & assembly...{He said in justification said he might want to drink more of it later in the day & then made the play of washing his unworked hands in it at the end of the day.. But I wont name that particular piece of slime... Personally Ill share even limited water with any human or dog... I think that's what nature intended... But he never forgave me the free tutorage... But he was probably just a **** bloke anyway... I resigned the next morning..

You don't all have fires every night? Personally if its warm its nice to have a real fire come about 10 o'clock I think... If its those 2 genuinely hot weeks we get every few years we just open the windows as well!

Not to mention movement of real timber leads to worst paint effects than painting fine ply laminates...

Mine to! Especially as his paying students make most of it! Its good though... https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=david+savage+furniture&biw=1536&bih=764&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=oDRFVfynI4nmau2rgMgL&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

Or as in Oz a "Sheila":sneaky2:

Very true... a lot..

We all have our own tastes , but if its just the light colour, you want high grade Canadian rock maples good , has a great lustre as well! If you really want painted doors, ppppwwwaahhh , I wouldn't bother getting it made by a cabinet maker. The ones I used to work for would charge a few grand for a wardrobe...I learnt a a little bit from David Savage, Hes does some fine pieces, He would do you a good one, but would probably want £30.000...minimum. Perhaps you know much cheaper cabinet makers? Either way good luck!

True as I don't know you it might be my projection! Good answer! Of course if I haven't worked out mmy own stuff in life it could be transference as well! You say "I consider no one above me, I would not bow or scrap to any man, I feel equal to all. I'm very happy with my lot, I'm grateful I'm free to plough my own furrow, beholden to no one." If you truly do that at all times I salute you! I live the same way, but do find some others and the system push the farrow of course occasionally.

If you employ a proper cabinet maker, stipulate the timber you like, don't get it painted... That's just for crap timber , cheaply made or vintage stuff {still crap.}that's been painted by an " I saw you coming" shop, designer craftsman or other conmen. [ame= ] [/ame]

Accepted systems! Gawd you sound like my Mum! So you accept your lowly place in society & embrace your number then? Many stopped doing that when they came back from WW1. But hopefully you realise forelock tugging is optional nowadays? "yes sir,yes sir, I be good sir,I be no problem sir"