woods, woodland and hardwoods.

[Phil Pascoe]

Catch the first 40mins of Countryfile" on BBC1 - there's some interesting stuff on it.

 

[Harbo]

The treated (cooked) wood looks interesting

Rod

 

[Robbo3]

The Sylva foundation, mentioned on Countryfile, has a number of videos on Youtube.
- https://www.youtube.com/user/SylvaFoundation/videos

I particularly like 'One Oak Tree at the Sawmill', perhaps because it is somewhat local to me,
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yigFtAuUPDE

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Dr. Gabriel Hemery, that they interviewed is joint author with Sarah Simblett (whose artwork is stunning) of The New Sylva - A Discourse of Forest and Orchard Trees. This an update of John Evelyn's Sylva, the first book published by The Royal Society. This beautiful book should be on the bookshelves of anyone interested in trees. (I've just taken mine off a shelf and found a S&J tenon saw I forgot I had! :lol: =D> )

 

[Eric The Viking]

This beautiful book should be on the bookshelves of anyone interested in trees. (I've just taken mine off a shelf and found a S&J tenon saw I forgot I had! :lol: =D> )

Gosh. Does that work for anyone buying it?

If so, I'm in...

 

[bugbear]

The treated (cooked) wood looks interesting

Rod

Although the implication that sycamore was previous useless is not (IMHO) at all true.

BugBear

 

[Phil Pascoe]

This beautiful book should be on the bookshelves of anyone interested in trees. (I've just taken mine off a shelf and found a S&J tenon saw I forgot I had! :lol: =D> )

Gosh. Does that work for anyone buying it?

If so, I'm in...

Probably only if your household as as disorganised as mine. Why the saw was there in the first place, who knows? :lol:

 

[bugbear]

This beautiful book should be on the bookshelves of anyone interested in trees. (I've just taken mine off a shelf and found a S&J tenon saw I forgot I had! :lol: =D> )

Gosh. Does that work for anyone buying it?

If so, I'm in...

Probably only if your household as as disorganised as mine. Why the saw was there in the first place, who knows? :lol:

I managed to mislay a high quality set of vintage gravers for around 3 years in my workshop.

BugBear

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I've mislaid my workshop in my workshop ...