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Sources of timber

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Maurice

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I see people offering pens for sale made from the timbers of HMS Victory. Does anybody know how you would go about getting such timber as I would like to start a hobby for myself making pens from timbers of historic sites, building or ships etc.
 
Jim

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At a guess Maurice i would start with a web search to see what i could find, not much help i know, but i reckon most of these guys keep Mum about there suppliers etc .. Good luck with it thou Maurice ... :thumbs:
 
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I think that what you need to do to get a bit of the Victory is to distract the guards and put a silencer on the chain saw :thumbs: If you get away with it, I'll have a couple of blanks please.

I also try to get meaningful pieces of wood and started with a pew from the the local timber reclamation yard. I then got some wood from Thatchers Cider Farm and some from Weston Super Mare Pier before and after the fire. There is some from Avonmouth Docks and I'm gradually getting a bit of a supply. It takes a time but keep looking. Nauticalia sell the pens from HMS Victory and I don't think you'll get anywere near it for real. They have the monopoly, I've asked some fairly high up people.
 
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I still have a couple / few Victory blanks but they ain't nufink special, like Woody says I think they sold all they were going to.
I will keep them until I am old and grey then I might spin em up when they is rare as rocking horse muck init?

Hatfield house chopped up an Oak tree a couple of weeks ago after the so called great wind, said to be one of the oldest Oaks in the country.
They intend to make it into furniture but I have a contact who reckons he can get some pen blanks for me from it.
It's who you know not what you know that matters with these things.
 
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Phone Nortica up my mate was still buy Oak and pine from them a few months ago
 
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