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22ND FEBRUARY 2012
***NEW STOCK***
3.2 to 4.5cm thick planed boards of HORSE CHESTNUT - lovely big figured colourful boards and some BOOK MATCHED SETS
view them here or all at once by putting 'horse chestnut' in the search box from the home page (bottom left).
20TH FEBRUARY 2012
***LATEST STOCK***
new kiln load out!! see SAWN BOARDS
(hey wow at long last I figured out how to shortcut the links!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
2" / 50mm / 5cm thick beech, spalted beech, yew, Burr Poplar , Burr elm , inc book matches
1.5" /38mm / 3.8cm thick maple & yew.
all rough sawn, most to be planed shortly.
19TH FEBRUARY 2012
***LATEST STOCK***
OLIVE ASH, 3CM THICK PLANED BOARDS, LOVELY COLOURED BOARDS
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/30_49mm-thick/30_49mm-thick.html
AND http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/square-edge-boards/boards-30_49mm/boards-30_49mm.html
18TH FEBRUARY 2012
***LATEST STOCK***
LIME, BURRY 3.0CM THICK PLANED BOARDS, RUSTIC GRADE SINGLE WANEY EDGE
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/30_49mm-thick/30_49mm-thick.html
15TH FEBRUARY
***LATEST STOCK***
MONKEY PUZZLE WOOD FOR SALE, 6 -24" diameters, see
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/special-offers/special-offers.html
Huge Burr Oak brought in this week from Balloch, near Loch Lomond - one of the finest I've bought, a bit of rot in the heart but fantastic curves - will be great for bookmatched waney edge table tops!
13TH FEBRUARY 2012
approx 800 new spruce stickers cut & stacked to dry. Will be used for stickering the next few batches of timber cut this month while it is air drying. They are temporarily weighing down a recently built stack of prime 25mm beech, lovely coloured flamey beech from Tyninghame, which will have to sit air drying for the best part of a year or so in the shed before going in the kiln.
12TH FEBRUARY 2012
***NEW STOCK***
3.0CM thick planed Double & Single Waney Edge YEW & beautifully marked PIPPY YEW
all to be found here
2ND FEBRUARY 2012
***NEW STOCK***
Last of the batch of 3.2 to 3.5cm thick Planed MAPLE now ready for sale
Better pics taken this morning in the early light!
ALL HERE:
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/square-edge-boards/boards-30_49mm/boards-30_49mm.htmlPlus some coloured maple offcuts here http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/offcuts/offcuts.html
1ST FEBRUARY 2012
***NEW STOCK*** - more clear white MAPLE, 3.2 to 3.5cm planed. Lots more to go on tomorrow - tonights pics in the dying rays of the sun made the boards look orange so will do the rest of the batch tomorrow - there are some STUNNING boards!
24TH JANUARY 2012
***NEW STOCK***
LUCKY OFFCUTS BOXES
23RD JANUARY 2012
***NEW STOCK***
3.2CM MAPLE, QUARTER SAWN, SQUARE EDGED PLANED BOARDS. Small batch, may be more to come, quartered boards going fast though.
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/square-edge-boards/boards-30_49mm/boards-30_49mm.html
2.2CM ASH & OLIVE ASH, SQUARE EDGED, WIDE PLANED BOARDS APPROX 40CM WIDE
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/square-edge-boards/boards-12_29mm/boards-12_29mm.html
19TH JANUARY 2012
***NEW STOCK***
2.5CM LABURNUM single waney edge and Bookmatched Sets
Mostly under single waney edge boards and some here
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/bookmatched-sets/bookmatched-sets.html
and all on here (currently pages 2 & 3)
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/wildwood/wildwood.html
17TH JANUARY 2012
***NEW STOCK***
3.2CM POPLAR BURR
BOOKMATCHED SETS, SINGLE WANEY EDGE BOARDS & DOUBLE WANEY EDGE BOARDS.
View them at once by entering 'poplar burr' in the search box at bot left of homepage
4TH JANUARY 2012
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
I am open some days this week and have been dispatching web orders already but the staff will not be starting back until next Tuesday so dont expect any new stock on the planed board product pages until later next week. Lots of lovely stuff just out of the kiln to get prepared for you soon though...
27TH DECEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
Burry Elm 2.5cm thick planed
find them here
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/double-waney-edge/boards-12_29mm-thick/boards-12_29mm-thick.html
& lots of long lengths of prime single waney edge boards here
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/12_29-mm-thick/12_29-mm-thick.html
22ND DECEMBER 2011
HOLIDAY OPENING TIMES
LANARKSHIRE SHOP will be open but less days than normal, TBC on sun but probably Tues & Thurs 27/29th & Tues/thu/sat 3rd/5th/7th. Check the home page opening times box nearer the time and at short notice - I may post some extra opening hours during the week if I am going to be about, or as usual phone/email to make an appointment if you want to come outwith the posted hours.
ONLINE SHOP - OPERATIONAL EVERY DAY AS USUAL - will be able to answer queries, process orders & box up for dispatch by myself every day except 25th & 1st throughout the holiday period but obviously the courier service will be much more limited so please be patient.
***NEW STOCK***
SAWN BOARDS - NEW KILN LOAD OUT!!
32MM YEW, LABURNUM, WALNUT, OLIVE ASH, 1.2 & 2.4M LENGTHS
38MM SYCAMORE, BURR POPLAR, LIME, OLIVE ASH 1.5 & 3M LENGTHS
more details on sawn boards page soon...off to bed!
18TH DECEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
2.5CM PLANED ELM & ASH including some lovely green wych elm in square edge boards
mostly here
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/square-edge-boards/boards-12_29mm/boards-12_29mm.html 
18TH DECEMBER 2011
WEATHER UPDATE
slight covering of snow over ice. roads passable with care.
NEW STOCK - elm, 2.5cm planed, square edged, nearly ready , maybe tonight, been a busy week of antique furniture restoration & delivering pieces back to customers, working through a big backlog of jobs, end is in sight.
7TH DECEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
YEW , PLANED TO 2.0CM THICK
good big batch of lovely yew to be found on these pages
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/12_29-mm-thick/12_29-mm-thick.html
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/wildwood/wildwood.html
7th DECEMBER 2011
WEATHER UPDATE, 11.34am snow mostly melted, drive & yard a little slippy with slush, passable with care, customers getting in ok this morning.
6th DECEMBER 2011
I have snow ploughed our road in AND the council road (!) which never gets done & put a little grit down. Might be a little icy still but probably ok for getting in by this afternoon when the sun has melted things a little.
5th DECEMBER 2011
ROADS UPDATE : 2" OF SNOW & A LITTLE MORE FORECAST TODAY. LAST 1/2MILE WONT BE CLEARED YET SO 4X4S ONLY OR SNOWY-SAVVY DRIVERS ONLY TODAY! If it stops I'll go out & clear it and will update here.
3RD DECEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
2.5CM thick planed ELM, mostly with nice pippy/burry edges and lovely strong green streaks common to Wych elm.mostly here
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/12_29-mm-thick/12_29-mm-thick.htmlplus some narrow square edge boards and a few double waneys
Also some Wildwood boards
27TH NOVEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
4.0cm thick planed HOLLY on this page
4.0cm thick planed CHERRY , double, single waney & square edge
plus some rustic lime boards & a few nice 2.5cm thick planed ELM boards here
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/12_29-mm-thick/12_29-mm-thick.html
should have been a huge batch of prime elm for my loyal web customers but it mostly sold this week off my machine room trolleys before it even hit the woodshop shelves, let alone the website! Good news is there is a load more to plane up, mostly burry elm, which I will endeavour to do asap. Next batch will probably be 2.5 to 3 cm planed prime square-edged ash.
NEW OPENING TIMES!
we are experimenting with opening Mondays as an additional day in response to increased demand from customers visiting the Lanarkshire shop. We are now open every day 10-3 except Friday & Sunday but please check the website home page each week before visiting as there are occasionally exceptions to the norm. SaturdaysJan-Mar we will close 2pm sharp for the new Dovetails Furniture Course starting.
DOVETAILS Furniture Course Jan-Mar '12 now fully booked, many thanks for all the interest. Feel free to continue to register interest and I can let you know what future courses I will be running.
21ST NOVEMBER 2011
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19TH NOVEMBER
***NEW STOCK***
5.0CM ELM BURR short slabs / off cuts here http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/burrs/burrs.html
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/offcuts/offcuts.html
and
5.0-7.0cm thick planed walnut crotches & offcuts here http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/offcuts/offcuts.html
18TH NOVEMBER 2011
COURSES / TUITION :
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/services/tuition/tuition.php
Saturdays 2-5 Jan to March, woodworking / furniture making course with 4 spaces available just announced
17TH NOVEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
fresh out of the kiln - rough sawn boards in 8 to 10ft (2.4m - 3m) lengths, 1.25" (3.2cm) thick, mostly ELM, plain or burry, and some good straight ASH, white & brown
16TH NOVEMBER 2011
NEW DELIVERY RATES!
some prices the same some more, sorry! Courier and packaging costs have soared recently and we are unable to absorb these increases any more so I have introduced a new system based on charging by weight instead of charging by value, which very closely mirrors the actual costs we are charged by the couriers for sending your items , with an extra percentage added to approximately cover the cost of the packaging materials. There is zero profit in this element and furthermore we don't attempt to recover the cost of the time taken to do each dispatch. I can do no more!
I think the system is fairer than charging by value because buyers of very expensive boards like walnut and poplar burr used to be charged far too high a rate ; and it is certainly easy to understand - please see http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/services/delivery/delivery.php for the full info. You may notice a new 'weight' line in the product details, (which is approximate and includes a bit for the packaging) - this is the basis on which the delivery element is worked out, and its real simple - £1 a kilo ( but minimum delivery charge of £14.50 ). I hope to keep to this £1 figure for as long as poss as I would expect to get better rates from the couriers each year as trade expands, hopefully roughly in line with ever increasing courier rates and will always pass on these savings.
I will soon introduce a discount / loyalty scheme to try to offset some of the extra costs to be charged for shipping bigger orders.
APOLOGIES IF YOU COULDNT GET ON OUR WEBSITE LAST NIGHT - OUR SERVER WAS MOVING HOUSE BETWEEN 10PM & 6AM.
10TH NOVEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
AMAZING 2.5CM PLANED POPLAR BURR, double waney edge and square edge. Really special rare stuff.
find them on these pages
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/square-edge-boards/boards-12_29mm/boards-12_29mm.html
9TH NOVEMBER 2011
SANDING SERVICE : I have refreshed & updated the sanding & finishing / polishing services we offer, here http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/services/sanding/sanding.php
7TH NOVEMBER 2011
Lanarkshire Hardwoods on Facebook. access via the link at the top of any of the website pages. I have been trialling it for a few months, think I am ready to publicise it now. So feel free to stick pics of things you have made out of Lanarkshire Hardwoods beautiful wood on there and get a discussion going, or ask questions. I'll put most of the news that goes on this Latest News page on there from now on too, including notifications of Latest Stock, which means if you 'like' Lanarkshire Hardwoods facebook page you'll get the notifications in your news feed. I shall also be trying out notifications via twitter soon. All feedback & constructive crit gratefully welcomed!
5TH NOVEMBER 2011
***LATEST STOCK***
2.5CM PLANED ELM, PIPPY/BURRY - SQUARE EDGE & SINGLE WANEY EDGE & DOUBLE WANEY EDGE tree numbers 0904c & 0903 - enter in search box on home page or scan here :
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/square-edge-boards/boards-12_29mm/boards-12_29mm.html
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/12_29-mm-thick/12_29-mm-thick.html
COURSES
very close to making some decisions on running some more furniture making courses in the near future - watch this space. Thinking I could close up the shop at 2 on Saturdays and do 2-5pm, group of 3 may be the max just now although with a bit of rearranging in the workshop I could soon make it 4. Will work out someprices and dates asap. All those of you who have emailed requests about courses will be contacted first.
2ND NOVEMBER 2011
Just had a quick tally up and I am pleased to say that so far this year we have sawmilled & stacked to dry nearly 2 and a half times the volume of hardwood that we did last year. a figure of approx 2500 cubic feet or 70 cubic metres. This has been possible due to taking on extra staff, the impact of the new airdrying shed and sawmill, and not least, reinvesting a large percentage of the turnover on more prime butts of timber to mill. Some of the thinnest boards are already dry but most of this stock will be ready throughout 2012 and beyond so we will soon be able to offer a far wider range of sizes and species at any one time.
1ST NOVEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
a small but tasty selection of burr elm. burr lime and walnut offcuts added, see offcuts products page or wildwood. Next, soon, 2.5cm planed elm.
28TH OCTOBER 2011
***LATEST STOCK***
2.5CM & 3.0CM THICK PLANED ASH, mostly square edge and with lovely olive ash figuring - rich warm brown tones. To be found mainly on the following pages:
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/square-edge-boards/boards-12_29mm/boards-12_29mm.html
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/square-edge-boards/boards-30_49mm/boards-30_49mm.html
or search from the home page entering 'ash' or '0762A' or '0906C'
26TH OCTOBER 2011
coming this week - 2.5 and 3cm planed square edge olive ash
Also got a mirror finished this week for a customer, made from cherry (wild gean to be precise) from a tree which grew on the customer's family's farm in Perthshire. This is how I do my waney edge corner joints. Always difficult photographing mirrors because of the inevitable background image but I have found hanging them on my workshop wall for the pics to be quite effective!
.jpg "Wild cherry mirror")
22ND OCTOBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
2.2CM PIPPY YEW
20TH OCTOBER 2011
back to the rain today so inside in the workshop planing 2.5cm waney edge yew - expect it on the website over the next few days - but what was I doing yesterday in the blue skies & sunshine? making the most of it outside preparing more butts for the sawmill, including a few oversize ones like this muckle beech which had to be cut into quarters with the chainsaw to get it to fit on the sawmill :
18TH OCTOBER 2011
I have managed to scan some fairly ancient photos I have of the more traditional furniture I was making through the '90s and added them to the furniture gallery -
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/gallery/furniture/furniture.php
various like these
The drinks table on the left was nade for a customer whose house was called Toad hall, hence the tiny intarsia panel of toad of toad hall. I will upload some close ups as soon as I can find some more pics to scan. The top is actually 2 hinged flaps which lifted up and right through 180 degrees to rest as flaps sticking out the sides and a complicated mechanism of levers & springs lifts up a tray of glasses and decanters. Compared with conquering the mechanism, the cabinetmaking & intarsia was straightforward.
The top to the right was from a revolving bookcase made as a 70th birthday present from a wife to a husband by name of Fraser, hence the strawberries (fraises - French) detail ; the wife is an accomplished botanical artist and the tulip drawings were her own which I tried my best to reproduce in wood. They were done as little marquetry panels and then inlaid piece by piece.
I would be happy to do this kind of work still but the labour is measured in many hundreds of hours and these pieces became prohibitively expensive for me to produce. Fashions changed too and more organic designs have become my thing these days.
17TH OCTOBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
3.0cm thick planed ELM & BURRY ELM 
mostly here
8TH OCTOBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
4.0CM THICK PLANED CHERRY, SQUARE EDGED & WANEY EDGED
mostly here :
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/square-edge-boards/boards-30_49mm/boards-30_49mm.html
& a few here :
This week's sawmilling including the longest we have ever cut at 9.26m or just over 30 foot long - a larch log from Bonskeid Estate near Pitlochry which we were attempting to get some very long boards out of for renewing cladding on one of the buildings here. There was quite a bit of tension in that log which caused us some problems - the log was lifting up and down as we were cutting it!
30TH SEPTEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
4.5 & 5.0CM PLANED YEW, PIPPY YEW - DOUBLE WANEY EDGE
28TH SEPTEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
7.0CM SPALTED BEECH, SINGLE WANEY EDGE & DOUBLE WANEY EDGE & BOOK MATCHED SET.
21ST SEPTEMBER 2011
***NEW STOCK***
more short lengths like below added and more the same to go over the next few weeks - burr elm, walnut, burry maple, burry lime, yew , burr poplar mainly. Browse through 'offcuts' or 'wildwood' product pages.
17TH SEPTEMBER 2011
WALNUT CROTCH / CURL BOARDS NOW LISTED ON THE OFFCUTS PAGE AND SQUARE EDGE BOARDS PAGE. 5.0 TO 6.0CM THICK, SHORT LENGTHS UNDER A METRE, WIDTHS UP TO 60CM.
15TH SEPTEMBER 2011
cut the last of the burry / curly / figured maple from Tyningehame today - GORGEOUS!! pics wont do it justice. It will be well on end of next year at least before it is ready but I cant wait... 700 mm wide boards, lovely burry edges, fantastic flame figure. End reared this and some sycamore today as it was such a lovely bright crisp day, and almost a frost this morning. Fairly good conditions for keeping acer white, although its summer felled stuff so I dont know how white it will stay. 
started pricing up & photographing all those lovely offcuts of walnut & burr elm etc today - will start loading on the site this evening.
8TH SEPTEMBER 2011
unloaded the kiln Tuesday and been cutting, planing & preparing stock ever since - hundreds of offcuts and short boards that have been generated at the sawmill but been unsuitable sizes to go into the big stacks so they are packed into crates to dry and then loaded into the kiln 6 crates at a time. Walnut & walnut crotches/curls, burr elm, burr lime, burr poplar; laburnum, rose & yew branchwood ; spalted beech and many others. Some too small to list but most will appear on the website in due course, mostly under 'offcuts' or 'wildwood' or 'burrs'
2ND SEPTEMBER 2011
New pics added to Gallery - Wood page, some nice examples of wood we have had over the last year.
31ST AUGUST 2011
***new stock***
Fabulous POPLAR BURR boards, 7.0cm PLANED - inc a book matched set
plus various 7.0cm LIME PLANED
LOTS OF NEW PICS ADDED TO FURNITURE GALLERY PAGES, ITEMS MADE OVER THE LAST YEAR OR SO FROM LANARKSHIRE HARDWOODS WOOD, & A FEW OLD ONES OUT OF THE ARCHIVES
27TH AUGUST 2011
today I delivered into Edinburgh a small and very simple piece of furniture I have been making recently for a customer - a piece to store CDs within and stand a music system & speakers on top of, made from some of my local Scottish Elm. Used good old Liberon Finishing oil for the carcase and then experimented with Chestnut Fininshing oil for the plinth - interesting stuff - very thin and penetrative, hardly leaves any resin build up to have to sand off, good if you are wanting to just seal and go for a matt finish, or if you like to build up lots of thin coats. Might see about adding that to the products we sell in the shop...
25TH AUGUST 2011
***NEW STOCK*** 
4.5CM PLANED POPLAR BURR - not a lot but good quality, some here
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/30_49mm-thick/30_49mm-thick.html
4.5CM PLANED SPALTED BIRCH, inc 1 bookmatch set.
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/bookmatched-sets/bookmatched-sets.html
3.0CM PLANED PIPPY OAK
light pipp, square edge
Today we were end rearing the 4.8m sycamore we have been cutting - there is a sticker at top and bottom only to minimise sticker stain. These are the longest ones we have ever done like this! My assistants Jack & Miro doing the hard work...
Then Jack & Miro stacked a batch of sycamore that has been air drying end reared for most of this year -
the surface is now dry and it is ready to be built up into a flat stack in readiness for going into the kiln after some further air drying. Used the new fresh clean stickers to minimise the sticker stain.
24TH AUGUST 2011
after what seems an eternity milling stickers and bearers and stack foundations to let us mill & stock more wood, we finally started milling some prime timber again today - 4.8m long clean white sycamore.
Nice big Sycamore butt from Tyningehame estate near Dunbar in East Lothian, fitting perfectly on the mill at about 800mm diameter, Jack cleaning the bark prior to cutting.
Decided to cut it to finish as 32mm sawn thickness, square edge boards of 200 & 300mm wide, but may leave a few boards full width @ 600mm or so - but they are heavy at that size! Always so difficult to decide what size to cut the boards...
blades wrapped up ready to go off for sharpening tomorrow... sawdust from only several hours cutting...
The guys made an interesting find with the metal detector today - someone (small?) had hammered a large spent rifle round casing into the bark some 20 years ago and the tree had grown round it.
We managed to dig it out.
Later I cut through soft lead buried slightly further in the tree - probably the hurty bit from the same rounds. Nice markings the wood sets up as it heals.
23rd... coming in the next few days.... burr poplar, pippy oak, spalted birch...
19TH AUGUST 2011
***NEW STOCK***
4.5CM PLANED ELM - DOUBLE WANEY EDGE & SINGLE WANEY EDGE
4.5CM PLANED CHERRY
NEWS ...this last fortnight we have mainly been...
making 800 more stickers for stacking and air drying our ever increasing future stock...
making more crates to store more firewood for the boiler for winter, resulting from aforementioned increased sawmilling...
building more air drying timber stack foundations ready for more timber...
getting in some outdoor maintenance tasks before autumn - lime mortar pointing, external door repairs, painting, clearing out gutters...
building some elm furniture for a customer...
finishing & delivering some antique restoration projects for a collection of good Edinburgh clients plus some on site repairs...
collecting in some lime butts from a local estate...
hence not a lot of time to get much more wood planed up but should be more on the site again next week.
7TH AUGUST 2011
***NEW STOCK***
WALNUT - VARIOUS PAGES
1ST AUGUST 2011
***NEW STOCK***
CHERRY 4.0CM PLANED - SQUARE EDGE PAGE
RIPPLE SYCAMORE 7.0CM PLANED - SQUARE EDGE & OFFCUTS PAGES
BURRY ELM 4.5CM PLANED - SINGLE WANEY EDGE PAGE
YEW & PIPPY 2.0CM PLANED - DOUBLE WANEY EDGE & WILDWOOD PAGES
NEXT - 5CM WALNUT THIS WEEK.
SORRY, NO MORE SUITABLE BOOKMATCH SET BOARDS RECENTLY.
31ST JULY 2011
***NEW STOCK***
Lime 7.0cm Planed - square edge / offcuts pages
Cherry 2.0cm Planed - square edge, double waney & single waney edge pages
29TH JULY 2011
for all those who have been in contact and are patiently waiting for more wood of certain specs, my staff & I have been planing solidly for the last 2 days, 2cm and 4cm thick cherry, 2cm yew, 5cm walnut, 7cm lime, 7cm coloured / spalted beech and a few others. I will be pricing it up, photographing and loading on the website over the next 2-4days and will post here to announce each batch as usual. Thankyou once agin for your patience! If only I didnt have to sleep - I would work 24 hours - I just love finding more lovely bits of wood!
27TH JULY 2011
***NEW STOCK***
PIPPY / BURRY OAK 2.5 & 3.0CM PLANED
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/12_29-mm-thick/12_29-mm-thick.html
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/30_49mm-thick/30_49mm-thick.html
MORE THIS WEEK TO COME
20TH JULY 2011
just back from my annual holiday, 5 nights camping up at Lossiemouth Music Festival near Inverness with daughter Holly, 5, in our old ex RAF landrover ambulance! Much relaxed, easing back into work today, catching up with emails etc.
Staff are having a fortnight, hence no new stock on the planed boards pages for a while, even more so because we were concentrating on lots of sawmilling and stacking in the fortnight before the break - the Tyninghame timber , see below, which is proving to be spectacular! Can't wait till its dry!
Will get back to planing and producing more stock for the website next week - look out for some lovely stuff that I unloaded out of the kiln just before the hols - PIPPY OAK, BURR POPLAR, ELM, ASH, LIME, SPALTED BIRCH, YEW, CHERRY, HOLLY, PEAR, WALNUT & BURR WALNUT, mostly around 2" / 5cm thick, all available now rough sawn to callers and soon to be appearing planed up on the stock pages.
4TH JULY 2011
***NEW STOCK***
4.5CM PLANED PIPPY YEW consecutive boards, wild, some nice pippy figuring & burrs
4.5CM PIPPY YEW, PLANED, mostly here
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/double-waney-edge/boards-30_49mm-thick/boards-30_49mm-thick.htmland
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/30_49mm-thick/30_49mm-thick.html
23RD JUNE 2011
***NEW STOCK***
4.5CM BURRY WYCH ELM, PLANED
also 4.5CM PLANED ELM SQUARE EDGE run of the mill good colour square edge elm, some light pip.
Here
Rennie from Fraser Dunlop Haulage loading a fallen beech butt for me which came down in the recent gales at local Shieldhill Castle near Biggar. The butt weighed nearly 4 tons but the heavy cranes Dunlops have made light work of it. This is one of their special dumpy trailers which is a heavy duty artic tractor unit but without a trailer - just a 4m rigid bed fixed on at the 5th wheel trailer mounting. Ideal for short heavy things in tight spaces! Like all their cranes it can be operated remotely by the driver. I have already cut the beech into quarters ready for sawmilling.
Future stock :
today I travelled through to lovely wooded and tranquil Tyninghame House near Dunbar in East Lothian to select a lorry load of prime butts for sawmilling to be delivered next week. To include a huge log of Brown Oak about 3 to 4 foot diameter by 22 foot long - not the biggest log ever but certainly the most expensive by some multiples! also a huge diameter and long length Yew - about 30 inch at the ground and 52 foot long tapering to about 9" diameter - which will be ideal for big book matched table top sets; some small diameter but extremely highly figured pippy/burry Yews - veneer grade - the most figured I have ever seen; a possibly interesting burry horse chestnut and another big yew full of holes you could almost put your arm through - will maybe get some interesting boards off that. Plus some good old run of the mill white Beech and summer felled straight grain Sycamore for general use. Cant wait to get sawmilling it all and see what amazing figure and colours we find when we open up the logs!
14TH JUNE 2011
***NEW STOCK***
MORE PIPPY OAK, PLANED, 3.0CM. PICS AS BELOW
5TH JUNE 2011
***NEW STOCK***
3.0CM PIPPY OAK double waney edge character boards & - mostly here
and some narrow single waney edge @ 200cm here
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/single-waney-edge/30_49mm-thick/30_49mm-thick.html
+ lots more to be loaded on the site in the next 2 or 3 days, mostly 2.5 to 2.8cm thick and with much stronger cats paw figure...
2ND JUNE 2011
***NEW STOCK***
New Kiln load out! 2.1m lengths, 38mm sawn pippy / burry oak (nice), 50mm elm and burry elm, 50mm cherry, yew, pippy yew, holly and pippy oak narrows. 63mm rustic walnut. Some details here
http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/sawn-boards/sawn-boards.html
ALSO today :
7.0CM PLANED BEECH, SPALTED BEECH
6.0CM WALNUT
5.5CM WYCH ELM
all added to product pages, mixture of square, single waney & double waney edge, plus a few BOOK MATCHED SETS.
25TH MAY 2011
***NEW STOCK***
Monkey Puzzle wood for sale - see the special offers page for details
5.0 & 5.5cm PLANED WYCH ELM BOARDS for sale - 40-60cm wide, see DOUBLE WANEY & SQUARE EDGE product pages. Really prime special boards.
3.5 & 5.0CM PLANED WALNUT BOARDS for sale- 40-50CM wide, see DOUBLE WANEY & SQUARE EDGE product pages.
24TH MAY 2011
***NEW STOCK***
4.5CM PLANED OAK & PIPPY OAK ADDED TO THE PRODUCT PAGES. Double waney, single waney and square edge.
going fast though already.
SHIPPING PRICES :
due to vastly increased courier / transport and packaging materials costs we are being forced to introduce a new system of charges. For standard UK mainland postcodes order values up to £49.99 inc vat will cost £9.95, £50 to £149.99 will cost £14.95 and £150 to £299.99 £19.95. £300 & over POA. This is till far from the full cost to us of postage & packing but hopefully we can absorb the rest as overheads - the next set of accounts will tell!
17TH MAY 2011
QUARTER SAWING OAK
part of a huge old tree which came from Stobo Castle near Peebles, felled after a big storm took most of its crown off. The straighter grain parts are being sawn for prime kiln dried furniture grade boards, ready sometime next year. The sections of butt are constantly rotated and reclamped or 'dogged' on the mill in order to be cut in line with the silver rays for best figure and stability.The knottier parts were uses for the green oak swans, see further down below. The butt as delivered weighed over 9 tons.
Found this pic today from last summer - me, a chainsaw and a lump of burred sycamore at Lennoxlove in sunny East Lothian. Saw was switched off at the time!
16TH MAY 2011
***NEW STOCK***
5.0-5.5CM PLANED ASH, OLIVE ASH, BURRY ELM AND CHERRY ADDED TO THE PRODUCT PAGES
ASH MIX OF SQUARE EDGE & WANEY. A FEW BOOK MATCHED SETS.
On Sunday I helped a friend deliver a table and mirror made out of some of my burr poplar and cherry - looked amazing, we thought anyway!
12TH MAY 2011
GREEN OAK SWANS PROJECT - COMPLETED!
Finally they were ready to install the sculptures last Friday at Ordsall Hall, Salford, Manchester - they are open to the public in a week's time and that was the builders last day on site, so it was all panic when I arrived down there, having had an early start at 5am and trundling down the M6 at a sedate pace to conserve fuel!
Swans just fitted in the back of the landrover, along with camping kit for a stop off in Dumfriesshire (Moniaive music festival) to meet up with friends and daughter on my way back home.
Ordsall Hall where they are installed, gorgeous old building, newly renovated, dubious surroundings - now in the middle of Salford. The swans were constructed of green oak with huge pegged tenons in order to fit in with the design elements of the building. In time they will weather to the same colour. Recent oak repairs to the building have obviously been carried out as part of the building restoration.
Transporting (nervously!) and in position, Manchester building crew taking a breather after their work - they were great, as was their colourful dialect. Shame about the surroundings. Orshall was once probably surrounded by woods and parkland. The landscaping will eventually leave the swans floating over a moat of grass and crocuses, planted in the line of the original moat. A depression is being created in the ground to show the line of the moat. You can just see the 6 cygnets swimming behind, all bolted to concrete.
29TH APRIL 2011
***NEW STOCK***
PIPPY YEW 2.0CM - PLANED, all here http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/double-waney-edge/boards-12_29mm-thick/boards-12_29mm-thick.html
BIRCH 4.0CM - PLANED, all here http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/products/double-waney-edge/boards-30_49mm-thick/boards-30_49mm-thick.html
27TH APRIL 2011
***NEW STOCK***
just out of the kiln - ALL 1.8M / 6ft lengths, Rough Sawn, of :
63mm / 2.5" ASH, ELM, BURRY ELM, WALNUT
75mm / 3" BEECH / SPALTED BEECH, WALNUT, LIME
2cm YEW WANEY EDGED. in the shop for sale now. Lovely clean pippy stuff. Will be loading on the website anyday, been working flat out at the sawmill creating loads of lovely new stock for later this year and next - burr elm, burr poplar today, ideal for coffee & dining table tops. This is some of the burr poplar, cut to 50mm - you will have to wait till at least late 2012 for it to air dry first though!!
26TH APRIL 2011
***NEW STOCK***
MONKEY PUZZLE - 16" up to 36" diameter in the round, for green woodturning - loads of it - over 10 tonnes- can cut to any length for platters, bowls, urns, wine table tops etc. Felled winter 2010/11. Loads of lovely knots. Please enquire, more details & pics to follow soon.
12TH April 2011
***NEW STOCK***
2cm & 4.5cm Croatian Oak, Planed
2.5cm & 5cm Croatian Oak, Sawn
NEW LOOK WEBSITE!!
A few new product pages and hopefully an easier to understand layout, hope you like it! Might be a few gremlins to discover for the next few weeks, please let me know of any problems and what browser you are experiencing them on (e.g. Internet explorer etc).
SWANS PROJECT
All finished, just waiting to be delivered
21st March 2011
***NEW STOCK***
4.0cm ELM, planed
4.5cm YEW, planed
14th March 2011
***NEW STOCK***
2CM CHERRY, PLANED
2.5CM WYCH ELM, PLANED
10th March 2011
THE OAK SWANS PROJECT : 2 large oak swans approx 4 foot tall made out of 8" thick green oak sections mortice & tenoned together, plus a half dozen cygnets in 4" green oak, for the grassed over moat of a castle near Manchester
MORTICE & TENON CUTTING SUPERSIZED! nearly finished cutting the joints, pegging to do next then cleaning up the faces.
spot the home made mallet, hewn from a yew branch as it exits a tree trunk. Stronger than any shop-bought mallet and beautifully balanced, hard as nails. Need some decent framing slicks though if I do another of these projects - my biggest chisel is only 1.5" wide and has taken some abuse. Good old gaffer tape.
9th March 2011
*** NEW STOCK ***
4.5CM amazing BURR POPLAR http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/wood-for-sale/planed-boards/planed-boards.html (TYPE POPLAR INTO THE SEARCH BOX AT THIS PAGE)
27TH February 2011
***NEW STOCK ***
3.2CM PLANED YEW http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/wood-for-sale/planed-boards/planed-boards.html
4.5CM PLANED LIME - offcuts - http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/wood-for-sale/offcuts/offcuts.html and misc planed boards
4CM PLANED FLAMEY BIRCH long lovely boards http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/wood-for-sale/planed-boards/2-natural-waney-edges/boards-30-49mm-thick/boards-30-49mm-thick.html
25MM SAWN CHERRY & YEW http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/wood-for-sale/sawn-boards-stock-list/sawn-boards-stock-list.html
24th February 2011 LATEST STOCK :
3.2CM PLANED YEW, long and waney edged, some lovely boards http://www.lanarkshirehardwoods.co.uk/wood-for-sale/planed-boards/planed-boards.html
FEBRUARY 2011:
TEDIOUS STUFF: !!
NO INCREASE IN WOOD PRICES - we normally introduce a small price rise every Jan/Feb but this year our ex-vat net prices will remain at the same level as they were in February 2010 and many products will be CUT by 10%. This is our best effort to negate the increase in vat which most of our customers have to bear.
CARRIAGE CHARGES : unfortunately with courier and packaging costs rising and the huge recent rise in the cost of our raw material, the butts / trees, margins are slimmer and we can no longer offer free delivery for orders over £100. A graduated scale of charges will be worked out which will still start around £10 and rise but will be pretty reasonable for spends in the hundreds of pounds.
PACKAGING : with the large increase in online orders this year and alarmed at the miles of plastic bubble wrap we are using, we are in the middle of talks with a company to supply long slim card board boxes for our board sales. Cardboard boxes are one of the most eco-friendly packaging methods and will sit more comfortably with our environmentally-aware stance. Although they will be more expensive to buy than bubble wrap and have to be bought in bulk, we get a better rate from the couriers for dispatching in cartons/boxes rather than in plastic, so it balances out about the same cost.
FUN STUFF : !!
NEW SAWMILL IN USE
THE NEW AIR DRYING & SAWMILL SHED :
THE OAK SWANS PROJECT : 2 large oak swans approx 4 foot tall made out of 8" thick green oak sections mortice & tenoned together, plus a half dozen cygnets in 4" green oak, for the grassed over moat of a castle near Manchester
WORK IN PROGRESS!
heavy stuff! now that the largest sections have had the wastecut away they are only 50kilogrammes each... the finished articles will be about 170kg each - crane required for assembly!
mortices & tenons being cut just now, more pics soon
CHRISTMAS 2010:
FLAME BIRCH & LABURNUM DINING TABLE- completed and delivered on time (Christmas Eve!)
some temporary shots until we get some pro photography done in a year's time or so when the colours have matured.
.jpg "Patrick Baxter Furniture Flame Birch & Laburnum Dining Table")
GORGEOUS FLAME BIRCH FROM BONSKEID ESTATE, PITLOCHRY
250 YEAR OLD YEW!!
these huge pieces of yew and some other sections not pictured , which I bought in the late summer, were from a one in a grove of numerous old specimens growing at Ross Priory on the south shore of Loch Lomond. It had to be felled as it was rapidly dying from a root-borne disease and its eradication will hopefully spare its neighbours. We have just heard that unfortunately 2 other equally huge specimens have had to be felled - these were showing signs of dying back last year but they were given a stay of execution. They didnt make it though. At least the other trees will hopefully survive as the tree surgeons have completed a huge and costly ground treatment programme to eradicate the disease from the soil.
The good news - I am going next week to make an offer for the two trees and fingers crossed we will have some more fine big butts to mill for you this year. They are quite a challenge at that size though - much staring and scratching of heads before going anywhere near them with a saw!!
1st DECEMBER 2010:
Wednesday : foot of snow approx, 4x4 access only, still snowing, more forecast overnight and tomorrow. Assuming its stops as forecast for Friday, I will put the bucket on the telehandler and snow plough a track out to the main road, so customers should be able to get in ok on Saturday though it might still be a bit slippy about the place. Local farmers have been snow ploughing the main roads and some have been gritted too.
OCTOBER 2010:
PEEBLES WOODMARKET: 
well attended and a good crop of boards for sale but the public weren't spending as usual so will have to think hard about whether to attend next year. Its a lot of effort for little gain, especially as I'm rushed off my feet at the Woodshop at the premises - turnover is looking well up on a year ago, so its a big thankyou to all new and existing customers supporting Lanarkshire Hardwoods.
NEW SAWMILL UP & RUNNING!!
WILL GET SOME FRESH PICS SOON. ELECTRIC STATIC FORESTOR TOM SAWYER, APPROX 9M CUT, TAKES LOGS UP TO ABOUT 1M DIAMETER. GOES LIKE A DREAM, I EXPECT MUCH INCREASED PRODUCTION.
AUTUMN 2010 FURNITURE COMMISSIONS :
INTARSIA TRIPTYCH PICTURE FRAME
we decided not to go ahead with pricing this one - client and artist were not getting along too well. Never mind, maybe another time...
OAK SWAN FAMILY
going to be busy this winter - had a fairly big commission approved the other day; it is for a castle down near Manchester that is partly an oak timber frame building and has a filled-in moat. It has recently had a major facelift and the garden landscaper designed some larger than life oak swans to sit in the grassy moat. The will be a family, a cob & pen about 5 foot long and 5 or 6 wee signets. The parents will be made from 8" thick green oak, the sections bandsawed into a tricky profile and then morticed and tenoned together and pegged, in the style of the building. There is also a pair of actual size life saving buoys made in oak to be mounted on oak posts and positioned on the edge of the moat.
I have been sourcing suitable oak for the job and will make a start soon, as soon as the up front payment comes in!! Then it all needs to be done & delivered for some time in January. That would be fairly easy but I also have :
FLAME BIRCH & LABURNUM DINING TABLE
this one has been on the cards for a year or more - summer 2009 I sourced the Birch butts for it, milled them and stacked them and recently got them through the kiln as the client wants it for this Christmas. Why is Christmas always used as a deadline? Anyway, its about 10foot long by 4 foot, flamey birch with 2 big boards of burry laburnum sandwiched in the middle in my signature style 'inside out waney edge' jigsaw form. See the coffee table & dining table in burr elm & sycamore on the gallery, furniture page. Only this will be the first time the surrounding timber will go all the way around and leave the laburnum in an island in the centre. Should be fun. The laburnum boards I have kept for a good few years for a project like this but were only 6ft long hence the design ended up that way. I have birch boards ten foot long but the nicest most figured ones are only 6foot or so so I am going to wrap them around the outside and butt joint them; It will work fine if the grain is angled on the diagonal. There will have to be lots of butterfly keys on the underside, plus glued in tongues and a strong sub-frame.
INTARSIA TRIPTYCH PICTURE FRAME
this is only at the pricing stage and not a dead cert to go ahead but it would be a biggy if it does - a triptych - a 60" x 40" box frame housing a canvas inside, which opens to double in width to about 80" on hinges. Inside the side wings would be a dozen smaller canvases, all held in with intricate mouldings. The whole thing executed in walnut probably and some gold. But the real work for me would be in the front panel you look at when the doors are closed - this area would house 4 small portraits but is essentially one giant intarsia / marquetry panel rather than a painting. Fun!! I have an architectural model maker friend drawing up the picture of what the artist wants at the moment so I can then see how many pieces there might be and try and do a quote! The subject is an old house dating from 1660 which is no longer, and only a rough idea of what detailing might have been on the facade. There are formal gardens in the foreground. I reckon I would need the best part of a years worth of available cabinet making hours to carry it out.
OCTOBER 2010 : NEW SAWMILL!! I will be setting up a new sawmill this month - greater capacity, quieter, more efficient, properly dust extracted & vastly better on the H&S front so can use with staff.
Oh Yes and nearly forgot : STAFF !! earlier in the summer we took on a part time staff member called Jack who helps me around 3 days a week with sawmilling, stacking and planing. When not needed for these duties, he can usually be found with a paint brush in hand and a resigned look about him - its like painting the forth bridge here - but the place has never looked so spick and span! Well done Jack!
Through the summer I have also been lucky enough to have had forestry college student Hamish helping with some of the above tasks plus mowing & strimming etc.
SEPTEMBER 2010 : Lanarkshire Hardwoods took a 4m x 4m stand at the Scottish Woodcraft Show at Ingliston outside Edinburgh. I spoke to many new and many old customers, sold a good few bits of wood too. Mixed reviews on the success of the show generally - not enough exhibitors exhibiting / selling and not enough potential customers. Remains to be seen whether it will be on again next year, but I hope so as it has great potential - a good venue, a good organiser and Edinburgh really needs a show like that.
SUMMER 2010 : NEW AIRDRYING SHED !
complete! 100ftx80 ft storage shed is up and running. It is specially designed for optimum drying of the timber and will greatly speed up the air drying process, and also drying down to a lower moisture content naturally, minimizing the amount necessary to finish off with in the kiln.
8TH APRIL 2010 : LATEST NEWS RE THE WEBSITE !!
all the stock of boards are now loaded on to the shop page for viewing or buying online. I aim to put another 20 to 30 boards on each week, so always make sure you have a current version of the site - check by visiting our home page and CHECK THE DATE ON 'THIS WEEK'S OPENING TIMES' or refresh regularly. All the more important because boards are being deleted from the site every day as they sell.
Please have a browse and feel free to give us some FEEDBACK if you would like to see the wood portrayed differently or if there are any operational gremlins. Also if there are types or sizes or services we are not offering that you would be interested in - we are always influenced by demand and change from year to year. (2010 will see an increase in 2 waney edge boards to reflect the rise in demand in recent years)
SEARCH FACILITY : this is now working quite well on the shop / wood for sale page - if you have been viewing recently try again and make sure you REFRESH .
COMING SOON - WISHLIST FACILITY!!
STILL TO DO : more on the wood types page, more pics on the furniture gallery, and a few wee tweaks here and there to the text and images, some of which are temporary until I get better quality ones.
APRIL 2010 : NEW FREE DELIVERY !!!!
I have negotiated new delivery rates with TNT and can now offer FREE DELIVERY on orders over £100 inc vat and a very reasonable £9.95 only for orders under £100.
In order to cut our costs to enable this and get the better rates we are processing online orders and arranging dispatch all on one day, Monday, for collection on a Tuesday and delivery to most areas on a Wednesday.
MARCH 2010 : NEW AIR DRYING SHED STARTED!!
Despite no help to this small rural business from this nation's favourite bank I have given the shed project the green light. But couldn't have done it without the Scottish Rural Development Grant which is worth about 30% of the project costs. Better sell plenty more wood soon though! The whole bottom yard has been levelled and covered with 360 tonnes (PHEEWW!!) of local gravel. The 22 holes have been dug and concreted for the foundations and base plates fixed in. Hope to see the arrival of the framework and materials before the end of April. The overall size is to be around 100 foot by 80 foot or 30m x 24m.
SNOW ! AGAIN!!! So busy clearing it I didnt have time to take many pics but it was far worse than last time - see below. Drifts up to 4ft high and not much less than a foot anywhere, but this time I was out there quickly with the telehandler snowploughing before it got all icy and compressed, so we were down to the black and quite clear for any access within 24 hours. Luckily the local access roads were cleared well this time too.
Boiler House!
JANUARY 2010 : WELCOME TO THE NEW ONLINE SHOP WEBSITE!!
hope you like it, comments welcomed, good or bad, it will be an ongoing process this year to perfect the layout, text and operation of the website.
5th January 2010 : HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
We were at least a foot deep in snow and icicles more than 3 foot long ! The wood boiler was going round the clock keeping the place warm but I haven't started burning the stock yet!
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snow ploughing the drive and yard with the telehandler
December 2009: NEW SHED!
Throughout 2010 Lanarkshire Hardwoods hopes to be building a new, long awaited, Air Drying and general storage shed. We are trying to sort out the finance but all the permissions and plans are in place. At 750 square metres, it will allow faster air drying of the timber under cover, speeding up the drying cycle by about double, whilst eliminating the peaks and extremes of the drying cycle when the timber is exposed to cold and wet one week then drying winds and/or hot sun the next (yes these last two can happen in South Lanarkshire!)
October 2009: NEW DISPLAYS!
We have built new racks to display planed boards in the timber store. Timber is now subdivided by size and approx one half of the store is mostly square edged boards / clean prime timber, the other half waney edge / character.
November 08 NEW KILN!
Throughout 2009 a new more powerful heat and vent kiln drier has been in use with a bogey loading system, meaning a quicker turnaround of timber to enable us to respond to demand better. Despite being more powerful and faster drying during the middle part of the drying cycle the kiln has more control than the old one so at the all important start up and wind down stages the drying process can be squeezed to a halt to allow different moisture gradients within the board to equalise (e.g. it might be drier or wetter in the very heart of the board compared with the outside faces). This process is called conditioning.
The kiln is currently running on electricity and is proving relatively economical. The heating portion has the ability to be supplied by our own heat from a woodburner for instance should the costs of running it on electricity become too much.