Need Help Finding Wood !!
Hi to all, I am still new to the craft of woodturning and before i
bought my lathe and tools i had a very small amount of air dryed wood for turning and this is now expended. I was wondering if any body could point me in the right direction for sourcing hardwoods. I am not pickey about the type of wood as i have resorted to only using scots pine in the last month and i cant stand the sight of it anymore. i live in ireland!! Yes i said Ireland, in the mayo area and any help would be greately appricated Many thanks to all and safe turning |
Need Help Finding Wood !!
The best wood is free wood. Find a pub where some tree people hang out,
buy a round of Guinness for them,... You can also drive around with the window open, listening for the sound of a chainsaw. Then find out where they spend their evenings... Get the picture? And I'm sorry I can't join you -- Guinness is on my short list of beverages. Bill keith wrote: Hi to all, I am still new to the craft of woodturning and before i bought my lathe and tools i had a very small amount of air dryed wood for turning and this is now expended. I was wondering if any body could point me in the right direction for sourcing hardwoods. I am not pickey about the type of wood as i have resorted to only using scots pine in the last month and i cant stand the sight of it anymore. i live in ireland!! Yes i said Ireland, in the mayo area and any help would be greately appricated Many thanks to all and safe turning |
Need Help Finding Wood !!
Keith
I like fire wood for basic turning. Is there someone in your vacinity who sells it? By the time you get through a half cord of wood your friends will know you need dropped trees and will start to find it for you. Look at http://aroundthewoods.com/firewood.shtml -- God bless and safe turning Darrell Feltmate Truro, NS Canada www.aroundthewoods.com "Bill Rubenstein" wrote in message et... The best wood is free wood. Find a pub where some tree people hang out, buy a round of Guinness for them,... You can also drive around with the window open, listening for the sound of a chainsaw. Then find out where they spend their evenings... Get the picture? And I'm sorry I can't join you -- Guinness is on my short list of beverages. Bill keith wrote: Hi to all, I am still new to the craft of woodturning and before i bought my lathe and tools i had a very small amount of air dryed wood for turning and this is now expended. I was wondering if any body could point me in the right direction for sourcing hardwoods. I am not pickey about the type of wood as i have resorted to only using scots pine in the last month and i cant stand the sight of it anymore. i live in ireland!! Yes i said Ireland, in the mayo area and any help would be greately appricated Many thanks to all and safe turning |
Need Help Finding Wood !!
Darrell and Bill are right.
When I hear a chainsaw, it is like the call of the wild. I am drawn to it... in my pickup... hoping it isn't clearing of old junk along a hedge. Even though I am in construction, I arrive after the lot is cleared. However, cleared constuction sites can ofter have good brush piles, and some good stuff has been found there. Another source I never see anyone talk about is dunnage. Around here, most of the dunnage is 4X4 of some type of hardwood. Some of it is great stuff. When I was looking for something different to turn, and in my upcoming bowl class, I will take a piece of dunnage and smooth a face on it. Then I cut it in half and glue the smooth edges together to make a bowl blank 4 inches thick and 8 inches across. When making small oil lamp bases, I have even glued a piece of scrap that contrasts the two pieces for more variety. And of course, you can go bigger too, by just glueing on another piece on to make it 12 inches wide to make your blank Remeber to cut the pieces to the correct length by determining the width first. You can also use the 4X4 to turn gavels, mallets, scoops, spoons, and anything else you could think of It's a great way to use something that will go in a dumpster. Robert |
Need Help Finding Wood !!
Mike Paulson wrote:
I have gotten a lot of free dry wood by cruising the alleys on trash day. Table legs, bed posts, old fence posts, lamp bases, etc, are often to be found for spindle turning, and some good wide boards can be scrounged from old shelves, headboards, table tops, etc. If you are looking for bowl blanks, talk to tree cutters when you see them working and ask if you can have a piece or two. The will often load it into your truck for you and tell you where they dump it if you want more. I have built a couple work benches and a couple lathe stands entirely from scrounged wood including some old bridge beams. Last summer my boys put up a tree fort with their grandpa using mostly scrap wood we got from the lumberyard. It was all free. They have to pay to have it hauled off so am happy to give it away. All their good lumber comes on palettes, which usually consists of 2x4s, some 10 to 20 feet long. They can't sell em - they're too beat up and full of nails or staples - so they trash 'em. I was more than happy to salvage it and clean it up. Not a lot of it was anything I'd use for turning stock normally, but like Mike said, you can use it stands and shelving & such. Or practice on it. Actually, in this case I did turn a bunch of it. The northwest coast natives weave hats from cedar bark, and need a form to weave over. A fiend asked me to make her a form, so I did. Next thing I knew I had bunches of people calling and asking for one. Nobody else is making them as far as I know. I tell them that I just use scrap wood, which may have minor checks or knots. I figure the woods free; they're buying my time/skill. If they're happy with that, I'm happy to make them one. I've made about a dozen and a half now at $50 a pop. You can see a raw glue up, and a finished form at http://www.alaska.net/~atftb/HatForm/ (Note: the finished piece isn't from that particular glue up.) I use spar varnish for a finish. The cedar barks is soaked to make it pliable so a good 'waterproof' finish helps protect it... ....Kevin -- Kevin Miller http://www.alaska.net/~atftb Juneau, Alaska Registered Linux User No: 307357 |
Need Help Finding Wood !!
Your money ain't for nothing when your wood's for free. ;-) (apologies to ZZ Top) That would be Dire Straights -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
Need Help Finding Wood !!
Stephen M wrote:
Your money ain't for nothing when your wood's for free. ;-) (apologies to ZZ Top) That would be Dire Straights Thanks ... I knew that if I got it wrong someone would come along and set me straight. Now, if I could just get the voices in my head to agree .... -- I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a **** unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about. H. P. Lovecraft http://nmwoodworks.com --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 000723-2, 03/14/2007 Tested on: 3/15/2007 4:18:24 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2007 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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