Chris Knight
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I second Shady's comment.
Hardwood suppliers between Bristol and Reading?
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CHJ
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Okay, have added facility for a tentative comments link (see test at bottom) but would prefer that any comments are aired on forum before inclusion.
Mike-W
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I sometimes use a guy who owns a Hardwood Timber importing business (Tylers Hardwoods) just south of Hungerford on the A388 near Shalbourne, I always find him very helpful and knowledgeable & happy to sort & sell one board although he is pricey, he has a tremendous range of timber & it is excellent quality. I don’t think he has a web site but you can get Geoff Tyler on 01628 871300
Mike
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CHJ
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Thanks Mike-w & Midnight
Have added refs. and links to your comments.
Have added refs. and links to your comments.
Alf
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Okay, a bit of feedback:
Art Veneers - Haven't had cause to use them for about 15 years, but when I did they were helpful, the order was well packed and no complaints whatsoever. I would guess better for the marquetry fraternity than furnituremakers wanting consecutive leaves of rare burls or whathaveyou though. Excellent catalogue - more of a veneering handbook than a price list.
British Hardwoods - I've used them repeatedly and have had consistantly good, clean sawn and planed boards from them. They also err on the side of generosity to allow for any small areas of knots and so forth in my experience. Waney edged stuff not so hot; that's based on a sample of one order but also my gut feeling is they prefer to send s/e stuff by mail order. Their one serious failing is delivery; the last order was to be "ready in a fornight", but only turned up a week later after some serious prodding. They've also been known to send off an order without warning and it just turning up unannounced. On the other hand the rate for delivery of s/e boards is a flat £15 + VAT, which is very good. Buying timber sight unseen isn't ideal, but BH have proved to be the most reliable method to do it.
South London Hardwoods - Years ago now I bought one of their pallets of off-cuts. Delivered okay, timber not bad but an awful lot of 3/4" square sticks of woods which I'm still working my way through. I've not ordered from them subsequently mainly because of the rather hefty delivery charges - the wood itself was okay.
Cheers, Alf
Art Veneers - Haven't had cause to use them for about 15 years, but when I did they were helpful, the order was well packed and no complaints whatsoever. I would guess better for the marquetry fraternity than furnituremakers wanting consecutive leaves of rare burls or whathaveyou though. Excellent catalogue - more of a veneering handbook than a price list.
British Hardwoods - I've used them repeatedly and have had consistantly good, clean sawn and planed boards from them. They also err on the side of generosity to allow for any small areas of knots and so forth in my experience. Waney edged stuff not so hot; that's based on a sample of one order but also my gut feeling is they prefer to send s/e stuff by mail order. Their one serious failing is delivery; the last order was to be "ready in a fornight", but only turned up a week later after some serious prodding. They've also been known to send off an order without warning and it just turning up unannounced. On the other hand the rate for delivery of s/e boards is a flat £15 + VAT, which is very good. Buying timber sight unseen isn't ideal, but BH have proved to be the most reliable method to do it.
South London Hardwoods - Years ago now I bought one of their pallets of off-cuts. Delivered okay, timber not bad but an awful lot of 3/4" square sticks of woods which I'm still working my way through. I've not ordered from them subsequently mainly because of the rather hefty delivery charges - the wood itself was okay.
Cheers, Alf
Chris Knight
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North Heigham Sawmills.
A small business but with a good selection of cabinet woods and it is small makers who appear to be their primary market. They do some individual figured boards as planed singles but most of the wood is sawn square edged. The wood is very well stacked on very large racks and easy to sort through at the lower levels.
The quality of popular woods like oak, cherry ash, elm was excellent when I was last there in March.
The big drawback to this yard is that they only send wood out any distance on third party carriers who charge a packet for delivery.
A small business but with a good selection of cabinet woods and it is small makers who appear to be their primary market. They do some individual figured boards as planed singles but most of the wood is sawn square edged. The wood is very well stacked on very large racks and easy to sort through at the lower levels.
The quality of popular woods like oak, cherry ash, elm was excellent when I was last there in March.
The big drawback to this yard is that they only send wood out any distance on third party carriers who charge a packet for delivery.
CHJ
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Thanks Alf & Chris With a bit of luck your comments should be there now.
