Common Ash Trees: For Sale?

[the lone wolf]

Today I got a knock on the door from a Tree Surgeon. He basically explains what's going on in our garden and suggested we get rid of what he referred too as Common Ash Trees that have seeded from a near by Ash Tree?

I would say that these trees (about 4 in total) are about medium size - 15-18ft tall approx. If we decide to get rid, then I should be looking to keep the wood...

So my questions to all the cue makers here is:
Can Common Ash Trees be used for making cues? If so, would anyone be interested in purchasing at a very reasonable non retail price.
Perhaps good enough for inlays or even shafts!

Answers on a post card please...

[blahblah01]

Today I got a knock on the door from a Tree Surgeon. He basically explains what's going on in our garden and suggested we get rid of what he referred too as Common Ash Trees that have seeded from a near by Ash Tree?

I would say that these trees (about 4 in total) are about medium size - 15-18ft tall approx. If we decide to get rid, then I should be looking to keep the wood...

So my questions to all the cue makers here is:
Can Common Ash Trees be used for making cues? If so, would anyone be interested in purchasing at a very reasonable non retail price.
Perhaps good enough for inlays or even shafts!

Answers on a post card please...

If good enough for shafts: at least ask for a Complimentary Cue

[the lone wolf]

If good enough for shafts: at least ask for a Complimentary Cue

Nice one!

[blahblah01]

Nice one!

Or 2: 1 for the person who suggested it

[the lone wolf]

Or 2: 1 for the person who suggested it

At this rate mate, we'll be carving them out ourselves!

[itsnoteasy]

That would be great, having a cue made out of a tree from your garden.

[the lone wolf]

No body wants Ash then?
It's a funny old game... :snooker:

[jrc750]

No body wants Ash then?
It's a funny old game... :snooker:

Pretty sure you can't just cut a tree down and use the ash lol, it has to be dried properly (kiln ?) and I guess that cue makers don't have that, ie they buy it dried by someone else

[DeanH]

Today I got a knock on the door from a Tree Surgeon. ...

When is he doing the new drive for you?
:biggrin:

[the lone wolf]

Pretty sure you can't just cut a tree down and use the ash lol, it has to be dried properly (kiln ?) and I guess that cue makers don't have that, ie they buy it dried by someone else

For sure - I don't know the processes but it's only my guess that the process of making anything from wood, should be to find suitable timber?

[the lone wolf]

When is he doing the new drive for you?
:biggrin:

LOL!
No new drive planned and I'm not for cutting trees down either, but he claims the trees may over run the whole garden so am gonna have to do a little research into the whole thing myself. Hence why I'm asking this question here - In case one day the trees do fall... :snooker:

[blahblah01]

Pretty sure you can't just cut a tree down and use the ash lol, it has to be dried properly (kiln ?) and I guess that cue makers don't have that, ie they buy it dried by someone else

But could get the Ash dried for a lower price?

[andy carson]

But could get the Ash dried for a lower price?

especially if its shoved at the bottom of a bog for 20 years first :P

[itsnoteasy]

Get it sawn into planks stack them in the garden with batons inbetween, so that air can circulate, build an open sided shed round them and leave them for twenty years, then get a cue made from them, by my reckoning that's still six months quicker than you can get a Parris or Trevor White cue made.

[the lone wolf]

Get it sawn into planks stack them in the garden with batons inbetween, so that air can circulate, build an open sided shed round them and leave them for twenty years, then get a cue made from them, by my reckoning that's still six months quicker than you can get a Parris or Trevor White cue made.

That tickled me...