Laburnam wood

Last week we cut down a tatty old laburnam tree in our garden to make way for a new beech hedge. The trunk and branches varied in thickness from 2 inches to 4 inches, ideal for turning on a lathe into very attractive items, sometimes called treen (did you know that bagpipe mouthpieces are made from laburnam wood as it is impervious to moisture?). So I advertised the wood on the "Freecycle" page of our village magazine and within an hour of publication a retired carpenter phoned and asked if he could have it. He will dip the ends of the wood in wax so that it dries out slowly without cracking over the next three years then he will turn it into beautiful objects. In return for the laburnam wood he gave me a useful pen pot that he had turned from, guess what, laburnam wood. Here is a photo.