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Smile don't take offence and it's sort of On Topic (a bit)

Hi Guys and Gals etc etc etc

Seeing as most of the postings in this group appear to originate in the USA I shall conclude that most of the posters are also from that general area.

I however am not :( (Yeh I know ...)

I would like to point out to you turners of assorted race and gender (that should cover most people I think) You seem to have more trees over there than we have people. Not only that, we get Ash, Oak (if this new bug thingie does not wipe them all out), Beech, Elm (If we are lucky) assorted Conifers and Fruits that just about sums it up.

Not only do many of us find aquiring wood quite difficult (other than paying for someone elses time and effort in producing Blanks) We need permission from the Great Lord PooBah or even the High Executioner himself just to trim a tree, even if it happens to be in your own back yard (Just in case it has a preservation order on it)just think what we have to do to actully fell one.

I devour all the writings of this group, laugh at some, smile at many but wonder longingly about such timbers as Locust, Mesquite? etc etc.

It isn't quite as bad as I make out but I must admit I do envy you and your trees.

I would love to have a little signature something like I saw somewhere

'So Many Trees So Little Time'

But I will settle for

"A broken branch and a couple of hours at the weekend."

Happy and Successful Turnings

Tim

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Wobblybootie
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Hello Tim,

Where are you located where wood is so hard to get. I think that this group has posters and readers from all over the world. I know there are people from the UK and people that I know in New Zealand. It was a bunch of USA woodturners that started the newsgroup, but today some come from all over.

Welcome to the not all USA newsgroup.

Fred Holder

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Fred Holder

Tim

We hate to appear to be gloating, but there is a very wide range of timers and quanitiies available to us over here.

Many of us have so much wood that we have to give it away or decline free wood that is offered. Just today, I declined 2 whole Mulberry trunks (3' in diameter) , 1 Elm Trunk (16" in diameter) and a Walnut stump that was 30" in diameter - most turners would knock their mothers over to get this stuff. But I have so much that I can not turn it fast enough - a good problem to have.

I will forever be grateful to be in America - not just for the freedom, but also for the abundance we have. I hope the other turners here know how blessed we are!

Ray

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Ray Sandusky

Hey Tim,

Some of us here in the States have it somwhat similar to you! I live in the west (Northern Nevada) and we don't have a lot of timber variety either. Plenty of pine, some fir, scrub oak, etc. Other than that and sage brush, all we can usually hope for is beating the other guy to the remanents of a tree trimmer! My turnings are all from a hardwood store some 40 miles away and what I get from suppliers on the net.

I bitch . . .but I am having fun!!

-Verne

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vrhorton

you could always send it on up here

Reply to
Reyd

You're right. We have an abundance of trees available IN PARTS(actually MOST) of the US. However, I have decided not to move to an area (Las Cruces, New Mexico) until I am no longer able to turn. They have some Pine there and that's about all. By the way, Pine is not very good for turning. Too soft! So I'll stay in central Illinois with all it's wonders. (Oak, Cherry, Walnut, Mulberry, Hackberry, Ash, Hichory, Honey Locust, "And I don't know what all."

The Other Bruce =============================================================

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Bruce

I know how you feel ;) and it really isnt all that bad here (if the truth were known) at least its green, but I fell in love with the States the first time I went there years ago. and the place has never lost its facination, but the grass is always greener etc etc or should that be 'The shavings are always ......

Tim

A broken branch and a couple of hours at the weekend. If I am lucky ;)

Reply to
Wobblybootie

You want to talk about wood scarcity!?! Well, I live in Antarctica and have to catch a plane or a boat just to hit the Piggly Wiggly. Toothpicks are the only wood I get to turn but some of them that I'm able to scrounge from neighbors are a little soggy, so I know of the joys you folks speak of when turning green wood.

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Owen Lowe

Hmmm...maybe you ought to try penguin bone, Owen.

rr

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Randy Rhine

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