Exotic wood dealers?

[Nos]

Nipping over to the UK soon, have e-mailed a couple of wood yards but nether of them have got back to me, looking for a wood yard Southampton/ Portsmouth area, coming down from Oxford so on the route down, looking for some exotic hardwoods for my chopping boards, can get some types here in France but expensive and limited to 4/5 species, Thanks.

[dewaltdisney]

The issue you may have is that many of these wood dealers will only sell whole sawn boards and you may be lucky to get offcuts but it would be a gamble. This firm might be worth a look https://www.exotichardwoods.co.uk/Contact_Us/index.asp they do smaller orders and are based in Kent. They do internet orders though. I recall many years ago sourcing a small order of a rare wood, I cannot recall the species, for an antique restoration project, I did for my friend. I guess much depends on how much and what type of wood you need as it might be worth having a whole board cut into a number of workable lengths. Not much help here.

DWD

[big-all]

thinking out side the box
tree surgeon /lumberjack/3fellas
a wood yard will see loads off time and effort way way above the sales generated
best just to turn up with a packet off chocolate hobnobs a beer/coffee /tea voucher and avoid the sales area

[Someone-Else]

packet of chocolate hobnobs

Is that Milk or plain (dark) chocolate?