Description
MAPLE 1572-6B
MAPLE Natural Waney Live Edge Slab Wood Board 1572-6B Thickness 3.5cm Kiln Dried Planed Seasoned Hardwood Wildwood
UK Delivery Cost : £ 54 OR CLICK & COLLECT from the Lanarkshire store (ML11 8LL) within 10 days – no charge.
COMBINED SHIPPING may be available if you are buying more than one product, but only if you contact us before ordering.
FOR FURTHER INFO ON THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS PLEASE SCROLL DOWN:
1.DIMENSIONS
2.TREE PROVENANCE & SUSTAINABILITY
3. DELIVERY OR COLLECTION INFORMATION
4. CUTTING SERVICES
5. SEASONING & MOISTURE CONTENT INFORMATION
6. BOARD FINISH INFORMATION
7. WOOD TYPE INFORMATION
1. DIMENSIONS
MAPLE 1572-6B
Length (cm):153
Width (cm)
minimum…including waney edge: 44
maximum..including waney edge: 96
average….including waney edge: 66
Thickness (cm): 3.5
dimension notes :
a) CM /MM / INCH ? Our Webshop is set in centimetres by popular request. However we are equally happy to talk to you in feet, inches, metres or millimetres.
b) How to properly describe measurements – LxWxT in that order :
Length is the measurement along the grain, following the tree from ground level upwards and usually the largest measurement.
Width is the measurement across the grain, usually the second largest measurement, often wrongly described as ‘depth’ – which should only be applied to finished items of furniture such as cabinets and shelves when referring to the distance out into the room from the wall or back of the piece.
Thickness is the smallest measurement, also across the grain, seen as the measurement across the edge or end of a board.
In square sections width and thickness are the same.
2. TREE PROVENANCE & SUSTAINABILITY
MAPLE 1572-6B
BOARD(S) ALL FROM ONE TREE WHICH GREW AT: WEMYSS CASTLE, KIRKCALDY, FIFE, UK
provenance notes :
Every one of our boards has a number, such as 1372A-6, with a record of its provenance and sequence within the tree.
This means it is the 6th board or slice cut from the first length of the tree nearest the stump/ground (A.).
B would be the second length if the tree was big enough to cut another section from further up the tree, usually above the first branch.
C, D etc getting smaller and usually more bendy and less stable as you go higher up the tree. All from tree number 1372 in this example, which records the individual tree, where it grew and lived its life on a particular estate/woodland/garden in the UK which Lanarkshire Hardwoods buys from.
sustainability notes :
Patrick visits every woodland to view, measure and record every individual tree before purchasing, checking for sustainability of the source.
He looks at the re-planting or natural regeneration aspects on the site and reasons for felling if the trees are not naturally wind blown.
He checks felling licences if applicable and sensitivity for the landscape during extraction.
We only use approved sustainable and reliable sources.
The Wood Place / Lanarkshire Hardwoods are founding members of Scottish Working Woods; Scottish Working Woods (SWW) is an organisation with a licensed label scheme to encourage and support the use of all things made from Scottish woodland produce. Whilst based in Scotland SWW is more essentially interested in the idea of LOCAL & LOW MILES ETHICAL SUSTAINABLE
trading of wood and wood products between small businesses and the public. We source most of our timber from within a 100 mile radius of the sawmill and the vast bulk within 50.
Read more about Scottish Working Woods here http://www.scottishworkingwoods.org.uk
3. DELIVERY OR COLLECTION INFORMATION
MAPLE 1572-6B
DELIVERY :
Delivery is usually within 1 week of ordering.
You receive an order confirmation first, followed by a dispatch email when the goods have been collected from our premises. If you sign up to an account, further info on status of your order at various stages can be observed. If tracking is available, it will be sent to you via the courier.
Delivery is chargeable on all orders, same £/kg rate for all UK MAINLAND STANDARD POSTCODES, NI, IOM, UK Islands & Scottish Highlands.
But NI, IOM, UK Islands & Scottish Highlands orders are subject to some size restrictions – so long boards may need to be cut for transport.
To see the delivery charge please enter your chosen product in your shopping basket / cart – it differs by weight and size.
View the full information and rates here –
https://www.thewoodplace.com/services/delivery/
COLLECTION:
COLLECTION FROM OUR PREMISES (FREE, IF YOU CAN COLLECT WITHIN 10 DAYS) IS ENCOURAGED. IF YOU WISH TO COLLECT OUTWITH OUR STORE OPENING HOURS JUST ASK AND WE WILL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO ACCOMMODATE THAT AND MAKE YOU WELCOME WHEN YOU VISIT. There are many more offcuts available in store to browse which are not on the website.
We can sometimes offer storage space, for a fee, if you wish us to store your wood for you until a later time. This depends on current space availability. Cost is dependent on size and type of product. £10 per week is about average.
4. CUTTING SERVICE
MAPLE 1572-6B
WE ARE HAPPY TO CROSSCUT BOARDS IN HALF (HALVING THE LENGTH, = 2 EQUAL LENGTHS) FREE OF CHARGE FOR YOU PRIOR TO DISPATCH.
OTHER CUTTING SERVICES ARE CHARGEABLE AND REQUIRE AN ANNOTATED PHOTO – RIP CUTS & CUSTOM LENGTHS, SEE SERVICES PAGE –
https://www.thewoodplace.com/services/cutting-to-size/
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5. SEASONING & MOISTURE CONTENT INFORMATION
MAPLE 1572-6B
This is a ‘kiln dried’ product and the moisture content level is between 6 to 10%, average 8 to 9, which is good for a typical central heated home.
Further small shrinkage sometimes occurs on boards used as beams, mantels and shelves above hot woodburning stoves.
If you store or work on our wood in a cold, damp garage, shed or workshop it will absorb moisture, expand and warp.
If some warping or cupping is acceptable for rustic use, you can use our boards outside for signs and garden furniture etc. but they are intended for a central heated interior environment.
Wrapping in cling film or pallet wrap will reduce the effects of dampness if you need to store in a shed/garage etc.
We slowly air dry the wood in our purpose built 720 square metre air drying shed at our premises in typically damp & cloudy (=slow drying) high altitude South Lanarkshire for between 6-18 months for every 2.5cm / inch of board thickness, 24 months for oak. ( 6 months only in the case of fast drying species like Birch, Ash and Maples and/or timber from long dead or long felled logs which have already lost much moisture and released much tension before being sawmilled).
We then use the kiln only to finish off the seasoning process over a slow 3 to 6 week cycle on average, sometimes longer.
As a result The Wood Place / Lanarkshire Hardwoods timber is slow dried and thoroughly seasoned to provide stress-relieved stable timber for quality furniture making and other uses around the home.
Consequently our timber stays flat in a wide range of environments.
Any movement due to moisture content changes, up or down, is minimal due to our traditional and extremely thorough seasoning process.
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6. BOARD FINISH INFORMATION
MAPLE 1572-6B
Supplied in Planed and Thicknessed form.
Boards will have been planed or milled flat firstly on one face then flipped and milled again, calibrated to a uniform thickness within a max range of plus/minus 5mm, usually within the range plus/minus 1mm.
One face, the one with the price label showing, will have been selected as the best face and may have a better planed finish or have been coarse sanded to remove the heaviest planing/machining marks, which may show in the photograph of the reverse face. Only about 0.5 to 1mm of material needs to be removed to eliminate the machining marks.
Additionally some localised sunken patches of un-planed/milled areas may be present if removing these would have reduced the overall board thickness too much, de-stabilising or spoiling the look of the board. These will normally be on the reverse side if at all.
We will picture some non-planed areas in the product pictures but the image of one such area does not mean it is the only single area, merely that the board has one or more like this. They should be easy to see as being a different colour.
Finally, for a perfect finish we recommend further sanding of the product to remove all machining marks before polishing.
7. WOOD TYPE INFORMATION
MAPLE 1572-6B
Maple is generally stable – small movement in service – it won’t warp much if subjected to moisture content changes.
It is generally easy to cut, plane, chisel, sand and polish, being a smooth, close grained hardwood.
It is naturally more antibacterial than some other species, so is ideal for kitchen worktops and chopping boards etc.
There are subtle variations between different varieties of maple and from one tree to another,
some being hard, dense, heavy or close grained and others much less so.
There can be a wide variation in the density from one tree to another, even within the same type of maple, depending on where it was grown.
There are many different varieties of MAPLE (acer), of which SYCAMORE being an ‘acer’ can be described as one and although most sycamore timber is recognisable as such, some is less clear and if a suspected sycamore log
has not been seen standing as a tree by Patrick with its leaves or buds to be able to be positively identified as a sycamore then the timber may be described more generally as ‘maple’.
In addition to sycamore the maple family include field or common maple, Norway maple and many american or japanese maples
planted and grown in the UK – many country estates have examples of non-native species to offer, planted in the 1800s
and now reaching the end of their lives and US maples were popular.
Please do not expect our UK home grown ‘maple’ to resemble US imported maple, which is generally much harder & denser than the majority of our UK versions.
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