BS: Cherry Wood Available (UK)

Subject: BS: Cherry Wood Available
From: sapper82
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 06:20 AM

There was I, yesterday afternoon, stuck up a Cherry Tree!
Well, not quite stuck as I was well able to get up and down, but the bloke who owns the mill over the road let me know that the big old cherry tree by the mill pond has to come down.
Sad really, it produces lovely fruit, what little you can get after the pigeons and magpies have their share, but the council say it is dangerous because of rot.
So, with the information that I can help myself to the wood, so long as he dosn't see me doing it, I went up with a bow saw and trimmed off the smaller branches, then used the chainsaw to drop one of the main boughs.
With a rope sling round me and the tree I was not in much danger of dropping the 30' or so I'd climbed, but it got me a decent couple of weeks worth of firewood.

Now, the important bit before I drop the rest of the tree and convert it into a lovely smelling firewood..
Does anyone on here know a craft wood worker, turner etc. who might want some decent lengths, 3' to 4' of 10" thick cherry?

Drop me a line if you do.

Subject: RE: BS: Cherry Wood Available
From: Jack Campin
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 10:10 AM

You're in Leicester or thereabouts if I remember right?

I think Jon Swayne is somewhere in the Midlands, dunno if he uses cherry for his bagpipes.

Maybe a post to rec.music.makers.builders on Usenet?

Subject: RE: BS: Cherry Wood Available
From: sapper82
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 11:18 AM

A bit further up the A6 Jack. Near Matlock.

Subject: RE: BS: Cherry Wood Available
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 12:25 PM

I'd love some. Could you send it to Idaho?

Seriously, I really would like it, but I suspect I'll have to find closer sources.

Subject: RE: BS: Cherry Wood Available
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 01:05 PM

Any pipemaker would be grateful for this - particular Border pipe or revivalist mediaeval pipes.

Paws

Subject: RE: BS: Cherry Wood Available
From: open mike
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 01:27 PM

perhaps it would (wood) be good for smoking fish....
as well as tobacco or whatever you put in your pipe...

apple wood is good for that...and alder...

i think Bill D (?) is a wood carver here..
but it would take a lot of stamps to send a log to Rap or him..

and they would (wood) not stick on so well...

Subject: RE: BS: Cherry Wood Available (UK)
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 03:59 PM

Bill D is a wood 'turner'...*smile*...round & round on a lathe.

I get offered a Cherry tree about 4-5 times a year.(usually American Black Cherry) Any one of them would last me a lifetime.
I do occasionally use some Cherry...especially burl....but I limit it because Cherry usually has abrasive silica content, and dulls tools pretty fast.

Subject: RE: BS: Cherry Wood Available (UK)
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 04:16 PM

Thinner straight branches might make good morris sticks.

Subject: RE: BS: Cherry Wood Available (UK)
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 04:33 PM

So would a blackjack or a mace.

I have a cherrywood pipe with a porcelain bowl, left over from my smoking days.

Subject: RE: BS: Cherry Wood Available (UK)
From: mandotim
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 03:14 AM

You could try Eric Moulder, maker of early music instruments in Leek, Staffs. You can contact him via his website here
Tim

Subject: RE: BS: Cherry Wood Available (UK)
From: open mike
Date: 09 Sep 09 - 02:14 PM

Bill's name should be Bill Turner.
and does Eric Moulder make wood molding?

http://www.archmillwork.com/home/am3/smartlist_36/in_stock_hardwood_millwork.html