The Framers Forum

Just wondering where people who make their own mouldings from lengths of raw timber source the timber from please?

Interested in sourcing oak, ash, pine and equivalent of obeche wood, to be kiln dried or equivalent.

Thanks all.

There's S L Hardwoods

https://www.slhardwoods.co.uk/product- ... -timber/

They do a wide selection of hardwoods both sawn and PAR (planed).
Their tulip wood is a very good substitute for obeche as a base wood.

If you want fiqured oak, with a fine grain and the medullary rays showing, then its 'The Quarter Sawn Oak Co'

https://www.quartersawnoak.co.uk/prod ... -sawn-oak/

For the more exotic timbers, you can get them from Woodwise

https://www.woodwiseuk.co.uk/

I would be wary about using pine for picture framing as it will tend to expand or contract a lot depending on the humidity. Then you end up with very gappy mitres.

As a handy reference wood there's always F10 and F9 obeche from Rose and Hollis.

Brilliant, thank you Dermot.

I shall have a google....