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I hope I'll be welcome here, I just joined up today - I'm in the UK. Despite my username I'm nothing to do with the police, the cop bit is to do with where I live. Well I'm hoping to get some advice and contribute my own experience so I'll head over to one of the other forums where I've got a question about working with Holly wood.......thanks for having me :)
welcome aboard we can always do with more winging poms.
you make our complaining look better:U.
only joshing with ya.
what kinda wood work do u do?
Thanks for the reply weisyboy, I'll try not to reinforce the whingeing pom stereotype too much (note the correct spelling of whingeing :wink:).
I just do the occasional bit of home-woodworking for my own amusement, nothing too serious but I enjoy it and need a bit of advice from time to time. I've got a few different types of wood at home that I intend doing something with such as lime, oak, beech, holly and mahogany.
G'day Bri. Of course you are welcome here.:):):)
W e are a polyglot group and some of us are even tolerant towards foreigners.:D:D
Wa lad canyase nout but poms n descendants of poms here and those who like ta be so drag out a seat sit down and yarn a bit.
Obviously form your gramatical and spelling you have good breading well educated but you'll be told by the Ozzie's lousy at cricket lousy at Rugby to.
Welcome aboard
Not bad; second post and you're correcting another member's grammar! You'll do. :2tsup:
Well to be honest I'm quite enjoying watching the Aussie swimmers having to play second fiddle to the USA at the Olympics for a change. Not that the Great Britain swimming team are anything to write home about but we never really expected them to be.Quote:
Originally Posted by wheelinround
Anyway what I could really do with knowing is this (should I post this in a different Forum?):
I have a trunk of Holly 8" dia' by 48" long, it was cut down 3 years ago and has been stored outside. Will it be any good to make jewellery boxes from and is Holly easy to work with?
Welcome Bri_ov_cop. Regarding Holly you might have to wait for another Pom to answer that one - it's not a common timber in Oz. With any strange timber I just cut it up into thick slabs and leave it a few months to see what happens. Most are OK by one small log just cracked up and fell apart after I cut it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bri_ov_cop
Welcome to the forum and enjoy.:)
G'day, Briv_ov_cop, and welcome aboard.
Probably not too much point in shifting your enquiry to another forum, or you could post a link to this thread.
Holly is very much favoured by woodturners for stability and uniform colour. Google [woodturning holly finial] for some insight. I captured a few large and small pieces from my brother in Northern Virginia last April. They were probably at least a year old then. I coated the cuts of large pieces with paraffin wax for insurance. I just looked at some of the small uncoated pieces and saw no cracking.
BobL has a great suggestion for experimenting. With only one log on hand, I'd suggest cutting about 6 inches off one end, and experimenting on that. The major concern for flat work would be cross-grain bending distortion of off-axis slabs due to drying shrinkage. Google [holly slab] could provide additional insight.
Joe