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- I only have his word for this but it did look fairly dark and he said that he had only every seen one other tree like it in his 18 yrs as a tree surgeon (somthing I guess you would say if you wanted to sell the wood). £250 for the slab. Given what I've learned here I think I would be better...

Thanks for the advice and the warm welcome. So seasoning only starts once the timber is at it's final thickness (not when it is felled) - this is what I was unsure of. I think I would like to buy the wood now and then keep it in the shed for a couple of years. That should give me time to...

Hi All, I'm planning to build a dining table and would like your input about the wood choice. I've found a tree surgeon who has some lovely looking black walnut that was felled ~18 months ago and has been in his yard since then, he has recently milled it into ~9cm thick slabs. I think that...