Thread: need help finding wood

wow thanks guys i didn't expect to get such a good response, thank you all

now since last night ......i have had a stroke of good luck

i live in Ipswich and have been taking classes with the local club (so some of you may already know me as i know there are members who brows this forum ..........ill let you guys guess) i had only recently bought the wood lathe its cheap (its not the Vicmarc i want but its good) and it came with some great chisels that made it well worth it and on top of all that the old man who gave it to me (he literally did) gave me a whole pile of "the Australian wood worker" mags, a wood turning book and a home made doweling machine!. today i went to the wood turning class and started to make a bowl of Camphaloral, i only got the outside done but man its cool im really proud i could make it . after the class i had to go back the the old man Harvey who i got the lathe from to get the doweling machine (it wouldn't fit before and nearly didn't today). well when i got there he gave me HEAPS of good quality wood! everything under the sun and more he had! a huge slab of hoop pine, Camphaloral and much MUCH more. so after getting loaded up again i now have a lots of good timber for good projects and really crap pine to practice on so i wont need to go to bunnings so soon . now Harvey still has lots of wood left that he doesnt want to chuck out but he wont use (because hes found hes getting to old for it) that needs good homes particularly a whole box of northern Queensland timber veneers, Harvey said was his fathers and from the 1960's and 70's. if anyone can give these veneers good homes and be put to good use then PM me and ill give you his phone No.

thank you all again for your help here its sort of gone off subject a bit but thats ok. im a little nervous using such good wood so ill keep it in the rack and think very hard what im going to make with it. im still going to look for crap timber to work so ill try finding some pallets and that but its unfortunate that the dump doesn't recycle the timber that goes in there (ill have to check for the green waste) or that the second hand renovation place that had so much good timber is no longer there. i do know a few spots where green waste is illegally dumped so ill look for some good sized logs that can have another life, its just getting them out thats the problem oh and the problem of "is this good or not" ill have to look more into that.

thank you all for helping i might post some pic's when i have some

Lucky you, new_guy90,

Good to know that you manage to get enough for a while so, you've got no excuses now, time to start doing some serious "shavings".
I'm pretty sure, someone will grab those veneers, lots of people out there, are looking for them...!

Yeah, don't forget plenty of those pics, maybe the administration "doesn't like them that much", but we all like to see them, huh?

Cheers
RBTCO

the local furniture maker should have a skip bin full.

Originally Posted by robutacion

Lucky you, new_guy90,

Good to know that you manage to get enough for a while so, you've got no excuses now, time to start doing some serious "shavings".
I'm pretty sure, someone will grab those veneers, lots of people out there, are looking for them...!

Yeah, don't forget plenty of those pics, maybe the administration "doesn't like them that much", but we all like to see them, huh?

Cheers
RBTCO

Posting too many pictures slows the thread and sometimes the whole board down. That is why we "don't like them that much".

If you are on dialup it must be murder sometimes.

Originally Posted by

Posting too many pictures slows the thread and sometimes the whole board down. That is why we "don't like them that much".

Aha! .....knew there was a reason why I forgot to post those WIP's!

hey mate if ya ever need any bits and peices i have a buch of hardwood fencepost offcuts and mil waste you can have. more then i can use for firewood. you might even find come mahogany and shee oak in teh ofcuts pile.

Originally Posted by Ed Reiss

Aha! .....knew there was a reason why I forgot to post those WIP's!

Ed, water-colour sketches would be fine

thanks for the offer weisyboy ill have a think about that. did a few things today bolted the lathe to the bench after a bit of bad language about drilling the holes bolting part of it down trying to do the next part and having to undo all i had just done to drill the holes one of the bolts was very hard to get to i had to take the motor off to do it up. but all thats done now and its just great it runs nicely, at a good center hight and im happy how the centers are lined up so it runs true the bench is big enough to have the lathe on one side, tools in the 2 draws, bench grinder on the other side and still enough room for a vice and bench space for marking out and general work. its all going well ill make a separate thread latter to show you all pic's oh and my Camphaloral bowl

Well you're all set then. Glad we could be of help. Yes keep us posted.

Originally Posted by

Posting too many pictures slows the thread and sometimes the whole board down. That is why we "don't like them that much".

If you are on dialup it must be murder sometimes.

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Point taken!
I can understand why pics slow down the system, is very much a "damn if you do, damn if you not" situation, while pics are constantly required, as part of the common need to "validate" what one says and/or exemplification(s). There is no doubt in my mind, of how important pics can be, in this type of forum, and everyone seems to appreciate them, the other aspect of this is that, unfortunately it seems to have a negative result with space and speed on the forum's system.
I don't know if there is an answer, for people like me, who likes to use pics to communicate with others, and to provide true evidence of events, instead of well orchestrated stories . (exceptions to the rule do apply!).
I have on a previous "reminder" from the administration on this some issue, requested some advice on possible ways to address this speed and space problem with the forum's server, appart from the option of not posting pics. From one extreme to the other, there should be an acceptable "medium", which I've been trying to find.

I know, how easy is for me to be carried away with posting pics (reach the limit per post, many of times), and for that I apologise, mainly for those with slow (dial-up) Internet connections but, what would be the most effective and trouble free way to post a significant number of pics, within a thread?
I got accustom to take lots of pics of almost anything, as part of "jobs" I was involved with, the digital technology has most certainly been a big help, "devil"!

Running the risk of having someone responding saying, "that has been already discussed", and if that is the case, could someone remind me, please? Thanks.

Cheers
RBTCO

I think back to when drawings were the norm. You only need a top, side and end view of most things unless photographing a series of steps involved in a process like here.https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...ol+post+centre

It is also better to use the attachment feature when posting than an offsite host.

just give a link to your Photo bucket that way people who want to can go and see all your pic's at there own discretion and you want lag the server

The problem with that is that if you close it down. the pictures are lost and the thread sometimes makes no sense.

Originally Posted by rsser

Ed, water-colour sketches would be fine

Water color sketches might be too high-brow....could maybe do some finger paints