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Probably not that interesting to most, but for us

Probably not that interesting to most, but for us it's a pretty big game changer. We've just taken delivery of our new 27ft timber kiln (in fact it's a re-purposed freezer truck body), which we'll be converting & fitting out next week and commissioning it mid March. Together with our existing kiln, we should be able to produce around 10m/3 per month. Then we just need to find somewhere to put it all..🤪

We love furniture and cabinets, especially if they

We love furniture and cabinets, especially if they're made with our repurposed hardwood. Thanks @fandcmagazine for featuring us in this month's issue.

#fandcmagazine #furnitureandcabinetmaking #furnituredesign #designermaker

The absolute delights of London Plane. We used som

The absolute delights of London Plane. We used some nondescript scraggy offcuts to machine up a bunch of 30x30 battens for a customer to use a table top edging.. these old trees have so much colour and character, and these ones in particular from the late 18th century, that grew in one of londons biggest former graveyards in Euston, are just to die for! Terrible pun but sensational timber 😃 Enjoy ..

#londonplane
#londonplanetree
#repurposedwood
#reclaimedlondonplane

Moby Dick? Or maybe an unusual slice of London Pla

Moby Dick? Or maybe an unusual slice of London Plane.. we're now getting into the last of our Euston stock..

Meet our new lifter and shifter. A s/h Manitou sem

Meet our new lifter and shifter. A s/h Manitou semi-terrain 3.5tonne beauty. Huge thanks to South East Business Boost for giving us a match funded grant. No more being stuck in the mid for us 😃.. vroom vroom! Beep beep!

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 😉..

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