Preparing poplar for drying - Tanaka is a very good chainsaw by the way. A bit loud but super handy and reliable!

Oak logs with an average age of 70 years before sawing.

A part of a tree on it’s way.

Cutting a poplar trunk after air drying period.

Pear wood - an old must pear tree which delivered drinking pleasures to three generations of humans - on the bandsaw …

… and in the sun.

Different types of wood holding a meeting at air drying.

Back downstairs in the workshop: A piece of solid oak entering the planer

Poplar lumber resting …

… while plans for the future are made.

Drilling Big Daisy.

Some Scarletts and Lees before finishing.

1/400 sec. of the sanding process Lord James has to keep still for.

Finishing with natural oil …

…

and polishing.