Chris Knight
Established Member
I visited this new yard today - was a nice day for a bike ride!
It looks like an excellent resource for woodworkers. Although he only started trading in mid-April, the boss Kevin Bolger, a pleasant and welcoming South African has things organised pretty well (although he was at pains to say that it will be much better organised soon) and it's easy to sort through bards and see what is what. The few boards I had a good look at were of good quality and well kept. He has some interesting "exotics" including some spectacular yew, rippled woods (cherry, maple, sycamore) several nice oaks (brown, European, AWO), American Black walnut, wenge, sapele, siricote, yellow heart and others.
A nice point for those for whom figure and grain are important is that he surface planes one side at least of his boards so that you can see what is going on with the grain.
Keving is planning to also bring in some timbers from South Africa which could be very interesting.
Kevin asked that if anyone had any special needs that they should contact him - he can get most woods through contacts in the USA, South Africa and elsewhere and is keen to learn what people need.
I shall definitely use Kevin for my next purchase, the location is pretty good for me and the ease of sorting through boards etc means that it will be easy to select what I need. I am only sorry that I have just recently bought a load of stuff eleswhere, including brown oak that was much poorer quality than Kevin had.
It looks like an excellent resource for woodworkers. Although he only started trading in mid-April, the boss Kevin Bolger, a pleasant and welcoming South African has things organised pretty well (although he was at pains to say that it will be much better organised soon) and it's easy to sort through bards and see what is what. The few boards I had a good look at were of good quality and well kept. He has some interesting "exotics" including some spectacular yew, rippled woods (cherry, maple, sycamore) several nice oaks (brown, European, AWO), American Black walnut, wenge, sapele, siricote, yellow heart and others.
A nice point for those for whom figure and grain are important is that he surface planes one side at least of his boards so that you can see what is going on with the grain.
Keving is planning to also bring in some timbers from South Africa which could be very interesting.
Kevin asked that if anyone had any special needs that they should contact him - he can get most woods through contacts in the USA, South Africa and elsewhere and is keen to learn what people need.
I shall definitely use Kevin for my next purchase, the location is pretty good for me and the ease of sorting through boards etc means that it will be easy to select what I need. I am only sorry that I have just recently bought a load of stuff eleswhere, including brown oak that was much poorer quality than Kevin had.
