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The good people at @selfbuildanddesign have writte

The good people at @selfbuildanddesign have written an article about us...

"London's fallen trees that were once chipped and burned are now being put to good use as high-grade timber for joinery..."

Click the blog link in our bio to read more. #repurposedfurniture
#recycledwood

Love this short film of us making the 2020 Dezeen

Love this short film of us making the 2020 Dezeen Awards trophies with @azmy_anything at @blackhorsews design by @ateliernl #dezeen #hardwoodfurniture #londonplanetree #walthamstow

A right old chewed up walnut on the outside.. the

A right old chewed up walnut on the outside.. the sapwood mostly eaten away and spongy.. but absolutely gorgeous on the inside..no worm or shakes, which makes a nice change forukwalnut..got a good number of these 2.5m x 500mm dia boards now laying peacefully to dry.. result!

Yup, I'm at it again.. just can't get enough of th

Yup, I'm at it again.. just can't get enough of this English Elm we're milling. Enjoy 😉

#elmtimber
#daydreamonelmstreet
#urbantimberrepurposing

Had to put another post up of the stills..

Had to put another post up of the stills..

Elm is just so damn consistently beautiful, even t

Elm is just so damn consistently beautiful, even the rotten bits are interesting....

If I wasn't married..

They're the Oscars of the architecture and design

They're the Oscars of the architecture and design world, and we made them with repurposed London trees with @azmy_anything

The @dezeen awards 2020 kick off at 4pm today online. 4,500 entries from over 90 countries.

Dezeen's designers @ateliernl wanted to use repurposed London Plane timber so we were the obvious choice!

#dezeenawards #dezeen #dezeenawards2020 #repurposedfurniture #repurposed #londonplane #timber

There appeared to be something different about thi

There appeared to be something different about this new woodmizer blade, but despite detailed inspection it wasn't obvious. Until we had that Eureka moment and figured they were designed to scoop out grapefruit!!
Ok, jesting aside, who the bloody hell left their chisel in this has huge old Plane tree!? Really!
From it's location we reckon it was stuck in there around WW1. Our educated guess.. putting up xmas decorations, late Fri afternoon, just used the last nail, oh well, let's use the gaffers chisel, he'll never know..pint Dave?
Other pics showing shrapel from WW2..and just unashamed money shots of stunning colour and grain of these historical trees from Euston..

#londonstreettreesrepurposed
#londonplanetimber
#anyoneseenmychisel

At the full time whistle, our intrepid reporter re

At the full time whistle, our intrepid reporter remarked that it was a Plane of 2 halves!

The might Dunc doing in 20 mins with his 880, what us mortals would do in 2 years with a chisel.

#londonstreettreesrepurposed
#londonplanetimber
#deathslab4cutie

Setting up our new site. Very ex-site-ing 😋. Th

Setting up our new site. Very ex-site-ing 😋. The plan is to use reclaimed pallets for the bases, stretching out into aisles, supermarket style.
Each bay of 3 pallets has been independently levelled to itself using our hi-tech plywood straight edge. We aim to move away from using bearers (single timber 3x3's) to avoid double handling, and they're too easy to accidentally dislodge with the forks. So the plan is to use 3m ex plasterboard pallets for every pack we mill. Think of pallets simply as a set of bearers, equally spaced, and formed into one standard unit. One stack can be up to 4m high, and will contain multiple packs. The 3m pallets live with their packs and make re-stacking so much easier as the packs can be plonked down anywhere without having to put down bearers first. Sorry, bit of a boring post, but for us it's an exciting future, by consolidating all our past experiences and mistakes, to build a super efficient site with 3 times our current capacity..
Lovely pics of pretty wood in our next post I promise 😉..

London Plane coffee table. Bookmatched boards from

London Plane coffee table. Bookmatched boards from a huge 1.3m dia 120yr old butt from Euston, with a centre drop-in of lighter sapwood.
Sumptuous!

#repurposedwood
#londonstreettreesrepurposed
#urbantimberforsale
#thegrainonthisplaneaintplainplane

Animal spotting again.. it's an owl isn't it? Th

Animal spotting again.. it's an owl isn't it?

This is the cupboard front made from our spalted hornbeam, set against a walnut casing..

More to follow, of this huge and beautiful cabinet..

A selection of our offcuts, repurposed from local

A selection of our offcuts, repurposed from local trees, to make beer flights for our new neighbouring brewery, the marvellous Exale.

#exalebrewing
#londonstreettreesrepurposed

When is a burr not a burr? When it's an a-burr-a

When is a burr not a burr?

When it's an a-burr-ation! 🤪

Otherwise known as just a bloody big Knott! Anticipating a mazy burr fest, we ran aground on this enormous Elm spherical knott, measuring 1m dia..this urban crow's nest still produced some fantastic figure which we'd never come across before.. this was our first milling session of the Gibson square Elm - still lots more to do..

#knottinmybackyard
#elmliveedgetimber
#urbantimberforsale

Milling the Islington Elm today..2 of the boards l

Milling the Islington Elm today..2 of the boards look like chickens!
No comments please about the turkey in the middle..😋

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