Andy Dingley wrote in message
It was somewhere outside Barstow when "Holly, in France"
wrote:

Metal detector?

I know a couple of people who recycle timber like this. This
guy has an expensive "Little Wizard" metal detector that
doesn't work. The other uses an ex-army mine detector that's
much better.

We have an ordinary metal detector, mid-range one, which we bought just
for interest in looking for old bits and pieces on the sites of houses
that we renovate. It's a bit cumbersome for use on timber and we don't
need to use it very often, but it works perfectly when we do. Good for
finding underground pipe runs sometimes too, as long as they have metal
fittings.

If he wants to take them out eventually that is, or does
he just leave them in the finished furniture?

You really need to saw round them. Neither metal studs or holes are
that desirable in furniture. OTOH, the guy who does the really huge
chunky mirrors likes all the bits of dross he can get and isn't above
scorching the surface with a blowlamp.

And there is that Mexican stuff with the regular, punched, wormholes!
--
Holly, in France.
Holiday home in the Dordogne,
website: http://la-plaine.chez.tiscali.fr