NATIVE/EUROPEAN LIME: G
This is a very under utilised hardwood which is ideal for short mouldings and drawer sides. It takes stain well and when stained is suitable as a substitute to more expensive timbers. Normally clear but may include some colour, sound and pin knots which should be accepted as part of the character of this timber. A readily available timber which can be processed from the log to kiln dried boards relatively quickly. We hold a large stock in most thicknesses.

Production: T/T, 1/SE, S/E, DIM.

Tilia vulgaris
Family: Tiliaceae

Other names: Tilleul (France); Linden (Netherlands and Germany).

Distribution: Throughout Europe and the U.K.

General description: Cream-yellow, maturing to yellow-brown to pale brown. The grain is straight and the texture fine and uniform. Weighs about 540 kg/m3 (34 lb/ft3); specific gravity 0.54.

Mechanical properties: The wood is suitable for steam bending of
moderate radius of curvature, having medium bending and crushing strength, low stiffness and resistance to shock loads. Resistant to splitting.

Seasoning: Dries fairly rapidly with some tendency to distort with
medium movement in service. May be kilned slowly with satisfactory results and little degrade.

Working properties: Lime works easily and readily with hand and machine tools but is inclined to be woolly and requires thin, sharpedged tools for a smooth finish. A reduced cutting angle is ideal for planing and moulding due to the softness of the material and the slight blunting effect on cuttings edges. Glues well and nails satisfactorily, can be brought to a good finish by staining and all finishing processes.

Durability: The sapwood is liable to attack by the common furniture beetle. The heartwood is perishable but permeable to preservative treatment.

Uses: The most important use is for wood carving since it has the ability to resist splitting in any cutting direction. Also as cutting boards for leather work, as it does not draw or bias the knife away from the desired direction of cut. Used for broom handles, bee-hive frames, hat blocks, surrounding boards, piano keys, oil cask bungs, toys, artificial limbs, clogs and soles, flat paint brushes, turnery, bobbins etc.

JBT Comments: Another under utilised Native hardwood which is ideal for short mouldings, drawer sides, or where a paint finish is required and applications where cheap tropical timbers like Ramin have been used in the past. A readily available timber which can be processed from the log to kiln dried boards relatively quickly.

Certification: We have established a supply of European Lime which is produced from well managed forests, independently certified in accordance with the rules of The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes. All our Certified Timber is processed through our Chains of Custody which are audited by BM TRADA Certification.

Grade: First Quality with lower grade available to order.

Specification: Through and through and/or one square edge; 6ft and longer, 6ins and wider.

Stockholding: 2,500 cubic feet in kiln dried and air dried stock: 1/2ins to 5ins thickness. 500 cubic feet of round logs available for sawing and kilning to customers requirements.