wood gloat

two bits of wood gloatage

first up i spent a large part of saturday getting my chainsaw thing on ( my day job is in rights of way so i’m pretty handy with a saw) round at my freind miles’s (miles_hot from UKW) who had a load of spalted beech and sycamore both fiddle back and normal to reduce – plus some yew and a cherry log. Despite being hot and dirty work it was a craic and his Mrs did us proud with some amazin food at lunch too

anyway at the end of that miles generously gave me four or five lumps of sycamore roughly  18″ sq by 2″ thick – some serious platterage there me thinks

then on monday I went to yandles to resolve my scrollsaw saga (UKW readers will know that I had a bleddy nightmare with my new record scrollsaw – the first one had a jumping feed, while the replacement was damaged in the box – third time lucky and yandles set this one up and ran it to be sure.)  anyway the nice men at yandles gave me a load of wood free to compensate for my trouble so i now have more offcut bits for tea lights, key fobs, light pulls,. xmas baulbles and 1/2 oak for scrollsaw work than you can shake a stick at – plus three nice bits of 1″ thick yew. A big thunmbs up to yandles but thumbs down to the quaility control at record power