1/2" Brazilian Mahogany - any good to anyone?

[BradNaylor]

A local school is having to get rid of its stock of hardwood as it constitutes a 'fire risk' and they've asked me to make them an offer for it all.

I've been to have a look, and while some of it might interest me the majority is pretty crappy and would probably sit on my racks for years.

There is however, quite a quantity of Brazilian mahogany - its probably been there 50 years! This is what interested me when I got the phone call, but it turns out that it is all only a maximum of 1/2" thick.

I have no use for wood this thin, except possibly for drawer sides.

Before I walk away though, I thought I'd ask if anyone was interested - maybe for box making? At a guess there are about 20 boards 10' long x 6"-10" wide. Ranges from 1/4" to 1/2" thick

I'm not going to mess about splitting it but if anyone is interested in taking the lot for a very fair price please get in touch.

Cheers
Dan

 

[punkrockdad]

Hi Dan

I've Pm'd you.

cheers

Warren

 

[hpl]

Hi Dan,

What is the quality of the Brazilian, and how far north are you?

Johnny B

 

[9fingers]

A local school is having to get rid of its stock of hardwood as it constitutes a 'fire risk'

What sort of H&S madness is this then?
Instead of the advisors helping the school to store the wood safely in a fireproof container, They make the school dispose of it and the kids presumably don't do any woodwork.

All is would take is a secondhand shipping container costing less than £1000.

The world is going mad!

Bob

 

[Digit]

I wonder what the desks and books are made of?

Roy.

 

[Smudger]

Can't be, we had great stacks of timber all over the place - the carpenters and joiners were encouraged to use interesting woods. We also did casting (mostly aluminium) and even a bit of welding. Never an eyelid batted by H&S, it was all properly arranged.

 

[BradNaylor]

A local school is having to get rid of its stock of hardwood as it constitutes a 'fire risk'

What sort of H&S madness is this then?
Instead of the advisors helping the school to store the wood safely in a fireproof container, They make the school dispose of it and the kids presumably don't do any woodwork.

All is would take is a secondhand shipping container costing less than £1000.

The world is going mad!

Bob

Exactly my thoughts when I was first approached by the school.

It turns out though, that this wood is stored in the cellars under the school, in a warren of tunnels together with a cats cradle of heating and ventilation pipes. Only a Ninja Turtle would truly feel at home down there!

It's been there as long as anyone can remember and to be honest, probably is a fire risk!

I chatted to the technician in the woodwork department (or 'resistant materials' as it is apparantly now known!) and he said that they used pine for teaching woodwork as it is easier for the kids and only the advanced ones used hardwood - mainly oak. The mahogany, sycamore and walnut etc in the tunnels was 'too difficult'.

Basically, they just don't want it!

Except the technician, who's planning a sycamore kitchen at home!

Cheers
Dan

 

[Smudger]

I don't blame him.
We used to have beech, oak, sycamore and elm for the c&j course to work on. There was even a little rosewood...
But most kids in the general classes had pine or 'deal'.

 

[kenneth cooke]

I read Brazilian and thought Rosewood as you do. No I am not interested in Brazilian Mahogany but thanks if you looked

 

[Ironballs]

Whereabouts are you/the school Dan?

 

[punkrockdad]

any developments dan?