Kiamyr said:
And where do you get a decent piece of wood as it seems hard to find some dead piece on the floor that's any way decent
I know the feeling. I recently wanted to try the near impossible task of bow drilling to make fire with Oak. I got some decent but too thin wood that was dead while being a lower branch on a tree. I got some thicker wood lying on the ground, but found it was too rotted to achieve the task.
Mostly it is opportunistically. My garden provides me with elder and buddliea and climbing rose. My neighbour occasionally donates me some dead flower stems such as mullein. A branch might fall off a tree out in the street. Someone may be pruning a tree. Then there is the christmas tree.
My local park is a possibility. You can keep an eye out for what you might want and ask the park keeper. He might even point out a heap somewhere.
Skips are pretty good for chunks of discarded timber used in construction.
Some people have access to wooden pallets.
Waste ground is fair game if it is not a recognised woodland and you leave it looking OK.
Come to think of it - scraps of wood from things like a loft extension, replacing a daughter's bed etc seem to provide me enough wood for most of my needs. You need a place to store it though.