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Exotics
Derek:
Reading Goerges first post would it have been more a case of Imported woods rather than saying Exotic woods just thinking out loud.
Twisted Trees:
--- Quote from: burywoodturners on August 28, 2019, 08:40:31 PM ---If exotic means 'introduced from a foriegn country' what does that make some oak burrs I got froma friends woodpile in Spain?#Ron
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I think you know that is not what George is referring to. Timber from the Amazon, Asia, Africa etc. that may be taken illegally without consideration for re-planting often with massive destruction to surrounding new, or less valuable timber is one problem. Also timbers that are smuggled without pest control measures that bring disease into our native timbers (though that tends to be living saplings rather than cut timber) these things are a problem to the future of timber workers generally. While we as turners have very little impact on the global scale here, we do have a voice and a vote with our wallets option to do less harm to the infrastructure generally.
Also, why do we need them? As George said our native species are pretty damned impressive and thanks to Kew and the Victorian gardeners we also have quite a range of exotic timbers growing in English gardens to play with. Along with a pretty healthy stock of broken furniture, off-cuts from musical instrument manufacturers and other sources of exotics for enhancing a piece or repairing an antique.
bodrighywood:
Ic you look around some of the traders who specialise in timber blanks you will often see a squre spibdle of timber with the ends turned round. It is usually a wood that is not allowed to be exported as a timber but can be exported if 'manufactured' and the turned ends get it around that clause. I have seen a few supposedly restricted woods for sale in that state, That has to be wrong?
Pete
GBF:
African Blackwood is a good example of that Pete the lumps they sell at Yandles are exactly that
Regards George
The Bowler Hatted Turner:
If you look at the endangered species list ,the Cites list, African Blackwood is not listed.
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