With a lot of the advice and good ideas here I have picked up a few bits and bobs to have a go at now. The firewood is going where it belongs, on a fire. I have picked up a pack of 50+blanks from ebay at a nice price. If I do find any little treasures in it then I just hope I can identify what it is.
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With a lot of the advice and good ideas here I have picked up a few bits and bobs to have a go at now. The firewood is going where it belongs, on a fire. I have picked up a pack of 50+blanks from ebay at a nice price. If I do find any little treasures in it then I just hope I can identify what it is.
Penpal
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Good news Robbie I once bought 140 blanks from north America blanks from all over cheap as chips the guy in Kentucky buys countless thousands of stickers from around the world (he owns a large saw mill) with some incredible species selects from these. The freight was great and many remain unnamed some simply African hardwood, Brazilian ? etc they worked out landed less than a buck US each. Share your happy news that you obtained what you were obviously hoping for.When he first advertised on a forum he was ridiculed for his prices by the would bees, I spent ages on the phone to him he has been very successful not being greedy or needy another business for fun is converting vehicles to Hummer type conversions I enjoyed the vids etc he shared with me long since gone.
Peter.
Peter.
In my wood store I have logs which have only just been cut. Sometimes if I want bowls etc then I will turn them green to the rough shape seal the outside only and throw them in my other wood store after about 6 months I have turned some and they have not moved that you can notice. I weigh them once rough turned and keep weighing until they do not move and stay about the some. If you want them for pen blanks cut them to blank size and leave sealing the ends after a time in the store bring them inside and let them dry even more. I have even been known to put them in the airing cupboard.
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Trim a couple of branches off your neighbours tree when he's not at home.
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Just a word of advice.
Skip dipping, aka removing items from a skip for your own purpose is theft, unless you have sought permission from the owner of the skip contents. All items in a skip, bin or similar belong to the owner i.e homeowner or business, until such time as the skip or bin is collected, then it belongs to the collection company.
If you are caught having not got permission, expect to spend some time in your local constabularies jail, and possibly be charged with theft.
Definition of theft
"A person is guilty of theft if he/she dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it"
We all know it goes on all the time, but you can guarantee the one time you see something worth having, there will be a copper right behind you. In other words as with most things in life, cover your arse.
Skip dipping, aka removing items from a skip for your own purpose is theft, unless you have sought permission from the owner of the skip contents. All items in a skip, bin or similar belong to the owner i.e homeowner or business, until such time as the skip or bin is collected, then it belongs to the collection company.
If you are caught having not got permission, expect to spend some time in your local constabularies jail, and possibly be charged with theft.
Definition of theft
"A person is guilty of theft if he/she dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it"
We all know it goes on all the time, but you can guarantee the one time you see something worth having, there will be a copper right behind you. In other words as with most things in life, cover your arse.
Does that include the government when they take your hard earned cash
Penpal
Grand Master
Never had this so called dillemna I always ask the owner of the skip never had a refusal. The exception was when I was a kid the Embassies in my area had their offices in town in an area where their rubbish bins were placed in the street for collection yielded thousands of now valuable stamps from those bins, since we were not litigeous 70 yrs ago here and because even then I door knocked and had permission always granted. I preferred skinny dipping those early days but with the eye of a born hoarder.Perhaps you have hear of me in stories we were so poor etc.
Peter.
Peter.
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I preferred skinny dipping those early days.
I hope you're not still "skinny dipping" Peter. Bit dangerous at your age mate
(assuming it means the same in OZ as the UK - nude swimming!)
Oh dear that brings up thoughts of nasty things these days Paul.
I have had my skin dipped into a few times in the last few years, the older I get the more it happens init?
I think I felt something drop off this moaning, unsure of what yet as most of me is still in pain from working yesterday, more Scotch in that coffee methinks.
Cheap nasty Bell's I was given in case anyone thinks I am diluting a good Whiskey with anything but another good Whiskey init?
Oh that's another parcel I am expecting soon I got a letter to say I will be getting a poo parcel now I have turned 60 yrs of age.
Anyone got experience of the poo parcel?
WTF?
I have had my skin dipped into a few times in the last few years, the older I get the more it happens init?
I think I felt something drop off this moaning, unsure of what yet as most of me is still in pain from working yesterday, more Scotch in that coffee methinks.
Cheap nasty Bell's I was given in case anyone thinks I am diluting a good Whiskey with anything but another good Whiskey init?
Oh that's another parcel I am expecting soon I got a letter to say I will be getting a poo parcel now I have turned 60 yrs of age.
Anyone got experience of the poo parcel?
WTF?