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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

I'm Mark Stephen and this podcast features something that is genuinely very close to my heart,

working with wood.

I recently paid a visit to something called the Chippendale International School of Furniture,

which is based just outside Hattington.

Now, the school plays host to an international field of students who are very keen to hone their skills.

Walking into the woodworking area for me was fabulous. I love the smell of it. I love the sound of it. The objects that were there were fabulous. Tom Fraser is principal

of the Chippendale International School of Furniture. We find ourselves in the seasoning yard here

at the Chippendale School of Furniture. This is where we stock all of

our locally sourced timbers, oak, ash, elm, sycamore, beach, yew, cherry, and sweet chestnut.

Where did you get sweet chestnut from? That's quite a rare tree in Scotland. It is. It is. It's a

beautiful tree. Poor man's oak, they call it, but not in my opinion. I think it's a fantastic species. But there isn't a lot of it. The tree that we've got in our yard at the moment was from about five miles from here, just growing in a local forest. The timbers that we have milled at the sawmill, which is not far from the school, right next to where the school actually originated in the garage of our first home,

with my father and an apprentice at the age of 15.

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