A few Wooden blocks or Oops
for when the secateurs have got over-enthusiastic, this will help the guilt pangs.

Oops are a selection of my off-cuts, chosen for their 'character' and drilled to take a small glass tube 60mm long, see the picture above.

They vary in price from £4.00 to £12.00.

See the pages about Firewood for details, but although I know where most of the wood comes from and what sort it is, occasionally I am given small pieces because they're 'interesting'. One or two have found their way here.

The black wood used above right and bottom left is Bog Oak; that is oak that has been preserved in a peat bog for several thousand years. The acid water reacts with the tannin in the wood and turns it black, but it's often in small crumbly pieces and difficult to work with as it's highly abrasive.

Apart from a couple of mystery burr woods that my brother gave me, above left there's plum, box, plane and birch. Click on the words below to see a few more more

One of my brother's offerings that could be elm.

London Plane otherwise known as Lacewood

Local Silver Birch burr

I think this is burr elm

Some local Box wood .