Woodbloke
Sequoia
My wife likes to collect little odds n'sods when we're on a our travels; they have no special financial value but she 'requested' a smallish wall hung cabinet to display them, mentioning that It needed a door to keep the dust off. I hoiked out a few lumps of Bubinga, a couple of which were crown cut which makes for much easier planing:
After some careful bandsaw cutting and machining on the pt, I was left with a pile of thicknessed Bubinga, yet to be machined to it's final width (though one door rail has developed a very slight bow, which is irritating)
However, this isn't the timber that I intended to make this little cabinet out of, as a couple of weeks ago, a very recently joined member of this forum verbally promised me one these two boards of Georgian mahogany which he acquired for nothing from an old boy who was shutting down his workshop:
In conversation on WotsAp with this person, I told him what I intended to make with it but whist I was away in Bromley seeing my son and grandson, this individual used his board and then part of the board promised to me for a turning project, leaving me with offcuts, some of which were of reasonable size, but offcuts none the less.
The mahogany, in and of itself isn't crucial (SWIMBO's very happy with Bubinga) but what really hurt was that he'd gone back on his word and as a consequence has left a very bitter taste in my mouth. When I think of the unstinting generosity of all members of WH2 (Mike G and AndyT to name two, just to embarrass them
) his actions make my blood boil and as such I've cut off all contact and will have nothing further to do with him as he simply can't be trusted - Rob
After some careful bandsaw cutting and machining on the pt, I was left with a pile of thicknessed Bubinga, yet to be machined to it's final width (though one door rail has developed a very slight bow, which is irritating)
However, this isn't the timber that I intended to make this little cabinet out of, as a couple of weeks ago, a very recently joined member of this forum verbally promised me one these two boards of Georgian mahogany which he acquired for nothing from an old boy who was shutting down his workshop:
In conversation on WotsAp with this person, I told him what I intended to make with it but whist I was away in Bromley seeing my son and grandson, this individual used his board and then part of the board promised to me for a turning project, leaving me with offcuts, some of which were of reasonable size, but offcuts none the less.
The mahogany, in and of itself isn't crucial (SWIMBO's very happy with Bubinga) but what really hurt was that he'd gone back on his word and as a consequence has left a very bitter taste in my mouth. When I think of the unstinting generosity of all members of WH2 (Mike G and AndyT to name two, just to embarrass them
) his actions make my blood boil and as such I've cut off all contact and will have nothing further to do with him as he simply can't be trusted - Rob
Bubinga is much nicer not that it's much consolation.