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Unusual timber source Jun 21, 2014 16:01:51 GMT

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Post by Pete on Jun 21, 2014 16:01:51 GMT

Walnut, aged good quality, and I got it for FREE

I cleaned out my workshop last week, it had got a bit of a mess with various projects under-way and tools not put away properly as the job was half done and they were not back into cold storage yet (been building decking and pavilions in the garden). and I came across a number of rifle stocks.

They had come from the neighbour of a friends brother type arrangement who's job it was to destroy seized guns for the Police. so they were in the main smashed off the gun with half the timber being a splintered mess, Anyhow I obtained them for nothing with the plan of doing something sometime. In my frenzy of tidying I decided they had been occupying that corner long enough and took them to the band-saw and cut them up into pen blanks. Well I have just made a few pens and have to say they are beautiful the pattern and colour of the timber is something special.

I have also received fire scorched oak church pews which after cutting the top 3mm of charcoal off revealed some fantastic timber that would cost a fortune today, air dried and seasoned oak in large plank format and not a split to be seen!

So to stop this forum from having no activity and also to give me ideas of where to look for free timber how about sharing a tale or two about unusual free or cheap timber sources you have found.

Ask any ten woodturners for an opinion on how x is achieved, you can expect at least eleven different answers.

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Unusual timber source Jun 22, 2014 9:23:05 GMT via mobile

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Post by Rob on Jun 22, 2014 9:23:05 GMT

Just join the berkshire wood turners association :-). Once a year we have an auction to raise club funds. It was last Wednesday this year and my estate car boot haul included walnut, laburnum, mimosa and yew and the price paid was about a tenth what a commercial blank supplier would charge

Fabulous. The other thing is that people call the club and offer to donate when they have an interesting tree down. Ice also found tree surgeons generally have a yard somewhere that's groaning with fabulous timber that is waste to them.

I also have a chainsaw in the boot if my car at all times. I think you know what I'm talking about there

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Jeff Farris Junior Member Posts: 86	Unusual timber source Jun 24, 2014 2:30:35 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jeff Farris on Jun 24, 2014 2:30:35 GMT Boot and bonnet are the two things most Colonists do know about your hacked up version of our language. And for the Colonists that don't have quite as much translation experience, an estate car is a station wagon.
	Last Edit: Jun 24, 2014 2:32:42 GMT by Jeff Farris Jeff Farris Robert Sorby, Ltd.

Rob Full Member Posts: 170	Unusual timber source Jun 24, 2014 12:26:41 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rob on Jun 24, 2014 12:26:41 GMT Sorry...."trunk" of my station wagon.....Luddites :-)

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Unusual timber source Jun 24, 2014 13:59:51 GMT

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Post by Jeff Farris on Jun 24, 2014 13:59:51 GMT

To get technical about American English, we wouldn't say "trunk" of a station wagon. Trunks are not open to the passenger compartment. In a station wagon, minivan or the currently ubiquitous "crossover" it is simply "the back".

"Crossover" is the current marketing-speak to appeal to those younger folk who said they would never be caught dead driving their parent's station wagon. Raise the door entry an inch and a half, tell them it's "all wheel drive" and they're all in.

Are we still talking about wood?

Jeff Farris
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phoneman Junior Member Posts: 97	Unusual timber source Jun 24, 2014 14:11:03 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by phoneman on Jun 24, 2014 14:11:03 GMT "We are two peoples divided by a common language"........ phoneman

Rob Full Member Posts: 170	Unusual timber source Jun 25, 2014 21:32:08 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Rob on Jun 25, 2014 21:32:08 GMT Hey that's my line Ken :-)

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Unusual timber source Jul 12, 2014 23:23:03 GMT

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Post by mcb on Jul 12, 2014 23:23:03 GMT

Jun 24, 2014 2:30:35 GMT Jeff Farris said:

Boot and bonnet are the two things most Colonists do know about your hacked up version of our language.

Whose language?

I believe that we had it first and let you colonials take it with you to the New World.

MC

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