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  1. stuckinthemud
    Thanks guys.
  2. stuckinthemud
    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?
  5. stuckinthemud
    Or apple?
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    Interesting Timbers (near Wells) was always one of my favourite suppliers
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    Think I'll leave it well alone in that case, I'm out of storage space until I get my act together.
  8. stuckinthemud
    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?
  9. stuckinthemud
    What would you say was the smallest diameter timber you would carve with a dime tip?
  10. stuckinthemud
    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.
  12. stuckinthemud
    The piece end-up is 5 inches by 4.
  13. stuckinthemud
    Sorry to be vague
  14. stuckinthemud
    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??
  15. stuckinthemud
    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
  16. stuckinthemud
    Caerphilly
  17. stuckinthemud
    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?
  18. stuckinthemud
    Thanks guys I had no idea a tree could have 2 such different looking leaves, genuinely thought it had taken out a different tree when it fell- along with the sycamore, holly, hazel and rhodo it also crushed on the way down. Will wander down and slab out some harp soundboxes in the next few weeks. Thanks all.
  19. stuckinthemud
    Forgot to mention, couldn't measure height of tree but I reckon its over 20m, bark shown is about half way up. Also I found some leaves that I thought were collateral damage from a different tree but reading up on poplar may not be
  20. stuckinthemud
    Brought down in last week's storm, big ol tree over 2ft diameter at the base. My first thought was beech but now I'm not so sure.
  21. stuckinthemud
    Had a border terrier cross rescue dog when I was 15, probably spent 12 years with us so at least 16 when she passed on. Broke my Dads heart. She'd run all day even when she was 14 or 15. I'd take her on a 12 mile fell run and she was full of go when I got home and collapsed in a heap. Magic dogs.
  22. stuckinthemud
    Parell beads are used as rollers on rope loops to help them slide up and down masts
  23. stuckinthemud
    They look like parell beads, part of boat rigging
  24. stuckinthemud
    Love that. Those doors are mind boggling, especially the inner door. Love the detailing on the steps.
  25. stuckinthemud
    The sheath took only a few hours to make, then over 30 hours to carve and oil, with a quiet Sunday afternoon to carve the bead. Can't remember what the netsuke took but I would probably need another 20 or 30 hours to make another.

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