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Sourcing woods..

jack-rythm

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OK people,

I'm very interested to know if I can find the popular woods that are used on our forum anywhere locally..

Manz wood,
Redmoor wood,
mopani wood,

Etc..

Would be interesting to know if this comes from anywhere we can salvage it it and treat it our selves? Its hard to bring myself to pay high end money for wood sourced from what was, our free world :) anyone got any opinion?

Jack :)

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Beach and oak wood is useable I know that much have also seen a vid on YouTube of people pulling wood out of rivers in the uk for scapes

Matt


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Hi all,
A lot of UK wood is fine to use. Autumn is a good time to collect it. Look out for "Stag-headed Oaks" (details in this post <http://www.ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=23110&p=238151&hilit=+wood+darrel#p238151>).

Depending where you live in the UK, Heather (Calluna vulgaris) may be a possibility as well. This is some BigTom collected in Scotland
wooda.jpg
, from the great "Bucket of Mud" thread <http://www.ukaps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=14521&p=227439&hilit=Heather#p227439>.

I collect any suitable bits of dead heart wood that I can find, as long as it is long dead species seems less important.
I'd definitely avoid Rhododendron, Laburnum, soft wood like Willow and Poplar and any wood that still smells "piney", but other than that it doesn't seem to matter too much.

cheers Darrel
 
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