Matt Estlea
Published on 18 Jul 2019Visiting a timber merchant can be a very unnerving experience. You don’t know where to go, how it works, what the rules are. It’s so easy to simple avoid the whole process altogether in favour of using easily accessible materials purchased from your local DIY merchant.
This series aims to prevent that intimidation and allow you to be prepared when visiting a sawmill or timber supplier for the first time.
Today, we are at a small sawmill just outside of Oxford, UK where timber is converted, dried, and sold on site by Blaise and his team. They specialise mainly in sourcing local timber in an effort to save it from being burnt for fuel or chipped. The selection here is incredible and I can’t wait for you to see what’s inside.
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https://blaiseintrees.comAlso see his YouTube Channel Here:
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______________________________________________________________________________________________My name is Matt Estlea, I’m a 23 year old Woodworker from Basingstoke in England and my aim is to make your woodworking less s***.
I come from 5 years tuition at Rycotewood Furniture Centre with a further 1 year working as an Artist in Residence at the Sylva Foundation. I now teach City and Guilds Furniture Making at Rycotewood as of September 2018.
I also had 5 years of experience working at Axminster Tools and Machinery where I helped customers with purchasing tools, demonstrated in stores and events, and gained extensive knowledge about a variety of tools and brands.
During the week, I film woodworking projects, tutorials, reviews and a viewer favourite ‘Tool Duel’ where I compare two competitive manufacturers tools against one another to find out which is best.
I like to have a laugh and my videos are quite fast paced BUT you will learn a lot, I assure you.
Lets go make a mess.
