large size boxwood logs.

Uilleann Pipes
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Dear friends,
Now you can supply large diameter boxwood products from us.
http://octopuswoodworks.sitemynet.com/boxwood/

thanks.

2

"Dear Bill Haneman and Mark Hillman,

Thank you very much for your positive comments.
We hope; can help you end of my life for boxwood.

Best Regards. "

3

how many of those does it take to make a set of pipes?

4

I take it then that it is good quality Bill and Mark - how dry is it ?

Unfortunately I have just spent rather a lot of money on a couple of small pieces of figured snakewood

Chris

5

We are sorry that this boxwoods 2007 cutting.

6

Hello Muzaffer
Do you have a photo of a boxwood bush before it has been cut down???

I am only asking as the size of the logs suggests the bushes must be enormous. Boxwood bushes in Ireland grow to only (approx) five maybe six feet tall

RORY

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Hello Rory,
I’m sorry that now we haven’t bush boxwood photos.
If you have need, I can take a photo for you But not just now.

Thanks

8

thanks Muzaffer
Holy moly they sure are large logs
I wonder if we could get some pipemaker to make a chanter the same size as that upright log ??


RORY

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That box isn’t from the same tree as the European box Buxus sempervirens, I don’t think. Around the Mediterranean and in Turkey there’s a tree called Buxus balearica which grows into 40-ft monsters.

I think that traditionally this Constantinople boxwood was/is used for wooden scientific instruments, including rulers/yardsticks.

It looks very similar to B. sempervirens; if it turns as well it would (obviously) be a great alternative for musical instruments!

Stuart

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From all accounts I have heard to date, it does turn nicely.

11

Great resource for those not content with the production of chips and dust from 100 mm bits of Arundo.

Just a thought though, perhaps for Musaffer to answer. Are groves of this stuff also being replanted by any chance?

Pwt

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Hello Stuart, I have to say you that there is only one that is a genuine boxwood, Buxus sempervirens.
It also goes under several other names such as Turkish boxwood,
Box, european boxwood and English boxwood.
Easy to carve and turn, color uniform light yellow.

Our wood exactly buxus sempervirens not other species.

Thanks

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Used to live within a few miles of a Surrey (UK) beauty spot - Box Hill supposedly named because of the native box trees. From memory they mostly all very scrawny and twisted. I believe a certain pipemaker took the opportunity of the great British Hurricane in 1989 to avail himself of some of the windfall

John