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Post a photo of the last thing you made...

Garden table back from the pressure tanalisers

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As I have to palletise these to go in the pressure chamber I make the table so it can be disassembled.
This one will have a Corian top as it’s for a fancy cheese on toast oven & they want a surface they can prepare the pizza dough on, finished top size is 1400x650mm.
Dropped it off Monday at the tanalisers & picked it up yesterday so very quick service, I’ll loosely assemble it today & leave it to dry out before fitting the top.
 
@Doug I’ve never seen anywhere that offers a tantalising service. Is it a timber merchant that loads your item in with the timber they process or offered as a standalone service?

Cheers
 
@Blackswanwood , @duke the timber merchants I use has a few different companies all centred around timber, there’s the timber merchants, a fencing merchants, a joinery business, a pellet fuel manufacturing plant & a fence manufacturing business all based on two sites.
If I want anything tanalising I just drop it off at the timber yard & it’s sent to the fence making site where they have pressure chamber, that’s why it has to be palletised. I imagine my pallet is just loaded in with all the fencing etc that is being tanalised that day, it’s certainly inexpensive so my job would not be done individually.
The whole shooting match is family run which is probably why they can offer the services they do. That said it’s not a service I’ve seen them advertise but as a long standing account holder it’s a service they extend to myself & probably other account holders.
 
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Very very nice @Doug

When you get it ready on your pallet do you separate the different component layers with some 'sticks'? I'm thinking you'd have to so the treatment gets fully between the layers. Just wondering about the areas they sticks are placed in and if they reduce the amount of treatment that the wood takes in 🤔...
 
Accipiter said:
Very very nice @Doug

When you get it ready on your pallet do you separate the different component layers with some 'sticks'? I'm thinking you'd have to so the treatment gets fully between the layers. Just wondering about the areas they sticks are placed in and if they reduce the amount of treatment that the wood takes in 🤔...
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Yes Frank, if you look at the pallet photo the sticks are visible running inline with the strapping, as it’s pressure injected the solution manages to get under where the sticks touch though not quite as well as the rest of the wood, I do try & keep the sticks as small as possible.
 
Yeah, that London Plane is lovely. I've never used it (I'm not sure I've ever seen it for sale).

Interestingly, it looks like a more dramatic version of some of the grain that appears in some Sycamore (like @Malc2098's guitars). Sycamore's scientific name is Acer Pseudoplatanus, which I think literally means "Acer that's a bit like a Plane tree". I'd always interpreted that as "Acer with leaves like a Plane tree" but it's curious that the texture of the wood is also similar.
 
Dr.Al said:
Yeah, that London Plane is lovely. I've never used it (I'm not sure I've ever seen it for sale).

Interestingly, it looks like a more dramatic version of some of the grain that appears in some Sycamore (like @Malc2098's guitars). Sycamore's scientific name is Acer Pseudoplatanus, which I think literally means "Acer that's a bit like a Plane tree". I'd always interpreted that as "Acer with leaves like a Plane tree" but it's curious that the texture of the wood is also similar.
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Looks good Al, but it's a bit 'wooly' (for want of a better word,) to use. It's pretty soft, cuts well but doesn't finish particularly easily. Can't put my finger exactly why I don't like it very much but hey ho, c'est la guerre. I certainly wouldn't make a major project from the stuff - Rob
 
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