I am (I think) a rather jammy git!

[damo8604]

Apologies...... this is a bit of a gloat thread

So I picked up a load of free timber from a guy who was clearing out his recently deceased mothers house, it turns out his father was a carpenter and had a load of timber in his workshop (god knows how long it had been there) most of it was bits of conti board/ply/MDF and old cupboard doors etc but there were several lengths of Mahogany boards and about a dozen mahogany edging strips about 2m long.

I don't mind using the scraps to practice on and I've no idea what species of timber most of it is (apart from the mahogany and man made boards) so I thought I'd experiment with my bandsaw and see how thin I could cut timber. there was a length of something that was old and painted so I thought lets practice on that..... it turns out that I have appeared to have set up my bandsaw reasonably well! I cut the whole length of perhaps 500mm x 47mm to a thickness of 1.3mm with no blade wander whatsoever. I gave it a quick (very quick) sanding and experimented with some cheap BLO I had got for 75% off and it has come up lovely.

I was going to re-vamp my tool hutch with the mahogany but after reading posts on here, it might be a bit too valuable for use as workshop furniture so don't know what I'll use it for at the moment, I might use the man made boards to build some storage for tools as I think I might need to keep a wall free for timber storage now.

Needless to say, I'm pretty pleased with myself :wink:

 

[RobinBHM]

Brazilian mahogany perhaps? -A nice find if it is, as its on the CITES list and no longer imported.

 

[adidat]

The picture is a dead link for me? But sounds like a nice find!

Adidat

 

[No skills]

Save it for a nice project but don't save it for ever, its to be used and enjoyed!

 

[Claymore]

You have cut it so thin its transparent lol can't the picture

 

[beganasatree]

No photo this end,sounds like you were in the right place at the right time.

Peter

 

[damo8604]

I've tried to fix the image, not sure what the issue is because it's fine my end?

For those who can't view it, it is a photo of the veneer I had cut with one end lightly sanded and treated with a bit of BLO

 

[Jelly]

The veneer looks like homegrown Douglas Fir, which is lovely stuff, if a little brittle at times.

I used to buy it in waney edged boards straight from the mill when I lived in Wales, It's actually one of my favourite timbers for general joinery.

 

[sawdust1]

I recently cleared out a 90 year old furniture makers wood store as he is on his deathbed.
It was stored in a transit luton body and packed to the roof.
Their was every species you could think about, turning blanks and reclaimed timbers.
I kept the wide apple, elm and beech boards and the reclaimed mahogany.
Don't weep, the rest i cut up for firewood !!!
I took the view if their was not a quantity of boards from the same species it was no use for me.
I later looked up what odd boards were fetching on ebay, well we all make mistakes.