stuckinthemud
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Yeah, you're right and I know it, that's why I'm on here asking questions. The other thing I know is what I need (4inch thick slab of salix) I haven't been able to source anywhere local to me in the past 3 years, so one lying in the woods 150 yards from my house is hard to walk away from
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Yes, its still attached, literally wind-blown. I'm a carver not a tree surgeon, this is well outside my skill set
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There is no vehicle access, so getting a pro in is not really an option and my better half will take a dim view of a new toy, freehanding is fine by me, I'm pretty accurate with my cuts. I was thinking of separating the section I need by cross-cutting trenches a few inches wide to keep the bar from being pinched, putting a log underneath for support as the section is off the ground then once its cut through and on the deck cleaving it with some big wedges
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Check the Song of the Paddle forum
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There is a wind blown black poplar near me with a 2 foot diameter stem. I need some slabs 4 inch thick by 12 inch wide by 1m long (sorry about mixed measurements). My little saw only has a 14 inch bar and the section I need to cut is 14 inches off the floor, the tree is pretty gnarly, this is the only clean section. Any advise welcome
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Look, I'm terrible at marketing, that's why I'm still a teacher, I know my limits, but it seems to me most marketing is done through Instagram and Facebook at the moment. Websites are a fair amount of work but they don't get a fraction of the traffic of the big social media platforms. Often small pieces with a modest mark up on postage can help keep things ticking over, for instance, have you seen the price of breadboards? £50 for a 14" long wany edge slab of 12x2??! Just my 2p ...
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You can use it as power carving tool in its own right, think of it as a rasp and you get the idea. -
My vote would be for a power file. Mine's a blackndecker hobby rated tool I inherited, lots of hard use, still haven't managed to break it, run it on screwfix belts, cheap as chips
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Thanks guys.
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Practising my tree id, this has me foxed. Thought the leaves looked like lime but not with that bark. Any ideas?
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Oh, that's not good news. Guess I'll be keeping a sharp lookout when I'm walking the dog then.
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Hi Everyone, I might need some 4 to 7 foot lengths of knot-free Elm or Wych Elm fairly soon for a medieval crossbow reconstruction but I'm really awful at tree id. I don't mind cutting my own but I'm as likely to take a beech tree as an elm. Anyone cutting elm near Caerphilly any time soon? Or anyone able to give me a foolproof way of identifting elm?
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Or apple?
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Where can I get building grade oak from in Somerset/Devon?
stuckinthemud replied to Timbertom111's topic in Woodcraft Forum
Interesting Timbers (near Wells) was always one of my favourite suppliers -
Think I'll leave it well alone in that case, I'm out of storage space until I get my act together.
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Yeh, they're already starting to split. Been a lot of wasted effort I think. Ah well, you live, you learn. May well end up as many, many, small carvings instead of a dozen medium sized ones. What's poplar like for chainsaw work?
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What would you say was the smallest diameter timber you would carve with a dime tip?
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I think if I were to carve bowls and such I'd split it along the neutral plane rather than turn as rounds, but my main interest in this stuff is to use some for disc animals / snowmen, some for reindeer (wife will be asking me to make Christmas presents before long) and then to carve hawks/owls/dragons/garden ornaments- to try and develop my chain saw carving skills
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Ok, wasn't expecting reaction wood to have such thick sapwood but how might that impact on it as a carving timber? I guess its more dense, maybe more prone to splitting? More likely to rot? Better in one way as there's less grain to interfere with carved details I suppose.
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The piece end-up is 5 inches by 4.
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Sorry to be vague
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Not at all sure. Very very old tree, its a boundary marker, girth is maybe 8 feet across at the base, can't estimate the height but the lowest limb was about 12 feet up, height is maybe 60 to 80 feet, spread is about the same. Acorns on stalks, Maybe q. Robur, Common oak??
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Ok, so having hauled out all the small and medium timber from a very large oak branch it struck me much of the wood is single coloured, so all sapwood? Its very dense but pretty pale in colour. The smallest stock is 3 inch diameter, largest pieces are 8 to 10 inches across and do have 2 or 3 inches of heartwood. What are the implications for storage and for carving? Hopefully I will be able to harvest the largest timber soon but its a good way wider than the bar on my saw
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Caerphilly
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When someone asks me to carve something I never have a problem working through the commission- motivation/inspiration/completion to deadline, never an issue. I really struggle to get anything done without that impetus, I've just salvaged a huge oak bough, maybe 100ft of round-wood timber of all shapes and sizes from 2ft diameter to 2 inches can't think of a single blessed thing I want to carve. How do you get motivated/inspired?
