We had a large (diseased) Ash tree cut down a few years ago.

Rather sillily, I didn’t keep any of it for guitar wood 🙁

“here’s a guitar I made, from a tree I grew!”

@tv101 diseased is best, the more the better! That's where you get all the cool stuff.

Another is a burl, they look amazing! This is an elm burl with just thinned down oil based polyurethane. How insane does that look?!!

Yup, I imagine there would have been some interesting features in that tree.  But, we’d just moved in, knew no-one in the area, and just needed the tree gone before any more bits of it fell on things it shouldn’t have fallen onto.

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@tv101 hindsight is fantastic though isn't it? So useful! NOT! Lol

@nsj  That burl guitar looks amazing.

@tv101hindsight is fantastic though isn't it? So useful! NOT! Lol

I once told an old managing director that my ambition was to develop my foresight to be as good as his hindsight. It didn't go down as well as I thought it would, but he knew that I shouldn't have said it.

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I once told an old managing director that my ambition was to develop my foresight to be as good as his hindsight. It didn't go down as well as I thought it would, but he knew that I shouldn't have said it.

😆 @robin

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I once told an old managing director that my ambition was to develop my foresight to be as good as his hindsight. It didn't go down as well as I thought it would, but he knew that I shouldn't have said it

😂🤣. Very good @robin.

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Very nice @nsj

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Spalted wood is beautiful. This is one I am working on at the moment ( well just need to finish it really ) ( spalted Tamarind )

Operation f**k this is a go! Ooft that was a heavy beast! Taking it to a mates tomorrow to slab it.

Don't bugger your back up again @nsj. 😬

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@russ nah, it's only small pieces of wood that put my back out, I'm fine with big bits lol

So got to my mates today and got the sycamore sawn up. His self made gadget worked a treat!

And this afternoon another mate popped round with a couple of bits of half round wood, meant to be oak but after machining it looks like ones oak and the other elm lol. He has more though so I'll grab another bit and get something that kinda matches.

Anyway I just cut off the edges then ran them through the thickness planer.

@nsj

Nice job done there Neil. 👍 

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Got another piece off a mate, defo oak this time. Need to figure out which way they'll go best together.

You have some handy mates up there @nsj!

@tv101 yeh but I'm handy too! 🤣