cuppa500
27th June 2010, 10:58 PM
G'day Folks, I would appreciate your comments on my following fantasy. :)
Having just had a travelling woodturner friend stay with us for a while I have been enthused by the idea of seeing more potential in timber I had previously thought of as firewood. We have a number of dead blackwood trees on our property, killed but not burned in black saturday fires 16 months ago. They are still standing & mostly barkless. The bark prevented the wood from burning. Our friend turned up a few things using some pieces I cut with the chain saw & pronounced it 'nice to turn, with long feathered shavings'. The finished results were nicely grained, & some quite dark. Many of the branches & limbs have a single crack along them, so cutting them smaller is needed to create blanks. ). I am wondering about the possibility of buying a lathe of my own & a band saw to make circular blanks to sell. Is this a foolish thing for someone with no previous woodturning & timber salvage experience to consider? What is the 'market' really like - no point in me adding to an over-supplied market? Not expecting a fast return. Could sell online/mail order.
Whaddayareckon?
Thanks
Cuppa
Having just had a travelling woodturner friend stay with us for a while I have been enthused by the idea of seeing more potential in timber I had previously thought of as firewood. We have a number of dead blackwood trees on our property, killed but not burned in black saturday fires 16 months ago. They are still standing & mostly barkless. The bark prevented the wood from burning. Our friend turned up a few things using some pieces I cut with the chain saw & pronounced it 'nice to turn, with long feathered shavings'. The finished results were nicely grained, & some quite dark. Many of the branches & limbs have a single crack along them, so cutting them smaller is needed to create blanks. ). I am wondering about the possibility of buying a lathe of my own & a band saw to make circular blanks to sell. Is this a foolish thing for someone with no previous woodturning & timber salvage experience to consider? What is the 'market' really like - no point in me adding to an over-supplied market? Not expecting a fast return. Could sell online/mail order.
Whaddayareckon?
Thanks
Cuppa