Thread: Bass Wood!

LOL I just had a look round and reolised you gurs are mainly not from my neck of the woods!

lol

Oh well if by any remote chance anybody can help I'd be well happy!

xx

Amethyst - try asking for "Lime" or Linden wood, which is what you Brits call Tilia spp. The Yanks call it Basswood.
Cheers,

Try Sue Walters http://www.suewalters.com/Wood.html she is a local pyrographer and does some great work. Usually sells basswood slices at the wood shows.

Doesnt seem to have them listed on her website anymore but you can always check with her and she does post internationally.

BASSWOOD ( tilia americana ) Limewood ( tilia vulgaris ) both extremely fine carving woods .In fact regarded as the Rolls Royce of carving timers . Used extensively throughout Europe in the production of Fine Furniture and ornamental carvings for Churches Cathedrals , Stately Homes etc . I recommend to listers to do a search for examples of the work of the Master carver Grinling Gibbons , you will be suitably impressed , and Amethyst wants some to burn !!A night in the stocks & a public flogging is in order !!!!!! lol

veebull

To each his own, Veebull.
The properties that make Tilia a fine carving wood also make it a good substrate for 'burning'.

What other folk do with wood always makes someone cranky - I get upset when I see decent cabinet timbers 'wasted' in great thick slabby table tops, when half the thickness would have been more than adequate on a structural basis! There was a thread in which I and a few otheres expressed this opinion a while back, and surprise, surprise, there was a wide range of opinions on the matter!

Now to me, Tilia is rather boring stuff, though it is recommended as a secondary wood in upholstered chairs, etc., because it holds tacks well............
Avagooday,

Tongue in cheek Ian , always tongue in cheek !!

Btw , I saw a bloke take a red hot piece of Burdekin Plum( for a coffee table top) , execute a relief carving of a HO Falcon in it and then stained it .

You are right , lime is pretty ordinary for the most part but oh so nice to carve , shame we don't get any of the 'big bits ' here .

veebull

Originally Posted by VEEBULL

Tongue in cheek Ian , always tongue in cheek !!
veebull

S'okay Veebull - I thought I was keeping it light, certainly didn't mean to sound pompous!

Anyway, you got my drift very well - what some blokes will do to a luverly bit of wood ought to be a hanging offence! But if it's their bit of wood....................

Cheers,

I meant me Ian ( tongue in cheek ) maybe I was sounding pompous , with my night in the stocks , flogging etc !! Ne'er mind , I never take myself to serious , I have to look in the mirror each morning !! lololol.

The same bloke I mentioned earlier , came by a large piece of Mackay Cedar , it ended up stained GREEN ! WITH A H/DAVIDSON CARVED INTO IT , I keep telling him packing case pine will do mate , give the good stuff to me !!

veebull

Originally Posted by VEEBULL

I keep telling him packing case pine will do mate , give the good stuff to me !!

veebull

Yeah, the only hope is that there's enough thickness left under the Harley to run it through the planer one day, and salvage a bit o' decent wood!