It is with great trepidation that I post this, but I really like these
guys.
There's a company near downtown St. Louis called Hibdon Hardwood and it is
a paradise of exotic lumber. After years of wholesaling exotics, primarily
to instrument makers, they've opened a retail storefront. Hidden inside
the unassuming shop, there's just stacks of beautiful wood. Sure, they
have your curly maple, mahogany, purpleheart and so forth. But they have
some spiffy stuff like macassar ebony, primavera, zebrawood, and figured
purpleheart.
I asked today how the retail side was going. "It's there" was the reply.
Seems that things have been slow through out the summer. I'm only posting
this because I don't want them to shut it down due to lack of interest.
I'm selfish that way.
So if you're loitering around St. Louis, check 'em out. You can look up
their info easily enough. In fact, I'm pretty sure that you can Feel Lucky
when Googling their name.
Standard disclaimers apply. I'm not affiliated with them in any way,
except as a mildly concerned customer.
--
Joe Wells
Mike S. wrote:
>Thanks for the info, I'm about 100 miles south of STL. and go up there every
>comple of months to Rockler and Woodcraft. Now have another place to nose
>around in. I take it that UNISAW is in the ST. Louis area, if so maybe we
>can met up somewhere for some coffee and wood talk.
Unisaw only makes it back to the StL area during a twice
yearly down and back.
Now, should you find yourself in Mahwaukee...
Unisaw A-100
My Dad and I were some of Hibdon's first customers. At the
time (if memory serves me) they were around Vandeventer and
Chouteu (pronounced locally as Show Toe (rhymes with Toto)?
Jim Hibdon came from a family of wood graders. Anyways, I
always enjoyed the trips down there and it was the beginning
of my education is woods of all types.
UA100, who always enjoyed butchering French names...
have to agree, I have not been in the area but subsequent to an enquiry the
sent me a beautiful sample box of assorted woods they sell....mjh
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"Joe Wells" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> It is with great trepidation that I post this, but I really like these
> guys.
>
> There's a company near downtown St. Louis called Hibdon Hardwood and it is
> a paradise of exotic lumber. After years of wholesaling exotics, primarily
> to instrument makers, they've opened a retail storefront. Hidden inside
> the unassuming shop, there's just stacks of beautiful wood. Sure, they
> have your curly maple, mahogany, purpleheart and so forth. But they have
> some spiffy stuff like macassar ebony, primavera, zebrawood, and figured
> purpleheart.
>
> I asked today how the retail side was going. "It's there" was the reply.
> Seems that things have been slow through out the summer. I'm only posting
> this because I don't want them to shut it down due to lack of interest.
> I'm selfish that way.
>
> So if you're loitering around St. Louis, check 'em out. You can look up
> their info easily enough. In fact, I'm pretty sure that you can Feel Lucky
> when Googling their name.
>
> Standard disclaimers apply. I'm not affiliated with them in any way,
> except as a mildly concerned customer.
>
> --
> Joe Wells
>
Mike Gerdts wrote:
>I find myself pretty close to there (3 blocks south or 32 blocks
>west). Can you comment on the local wood suppliers? In my limited
>search, I have found Kettle Moraine Hardwoods as my most promising
>source. Any recommendations for other local places to check out?
>Currently I am not looking for anything terribly fancy - just some
>4/4 and 6/4 maple or maybe cherry.
Kettle Moraine has a north and south outlet.
http://kmhardwoods.com/fsetlp.htm
There is also Badger Hardwoods.
www.badgerwood.com
I get almost everything I use from work which initially
comes from Boehm (pronounced bame/rhymes with blame)
Madison. To the best of my knowledge they only deal in
commercial sales. They are by far the best if you are
looking for good usable lumber.
http://www.boehm-madisen.com/
Try a search on WoodFinder.com and broaden your search to
the hunnert mile radius.
www.woodfinder.com
UA100
Unisaw A100 wrote:
> Unisaw only makes it back to the StL area during a twice
> yearly down and back.
>
> Now, should you find yourself in Mahwaukee...
>
> Unisaw A-100
I find myself pretty close to there (3 blocks south or 32 blocks
west). Can you comment on the local wood suppliers? In my limited
search, I have found Kettle Moraine Hardwoods as my most promising
source. Any recommendations for other local places to check out?
Currently I am not looking for anything terribly fancy - just some
4/4 and 6/4 maple or maybe cherry.
TIA,
Mike
Thanks for the info, I'm about 100 miles south of STL. and go up there every
comple of months to Rockler and Woodcraft. Now have another place to nose
around in. I take it that UNISAW is in the ST. Louis area, if so maybe we
can met up somewhere for some coffee and wood talk.
--
Mike S.
[email protected]
http://members.tripod.com/n0yii/woodworking.htm
"Joe Wells" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> It is with great trepidation that I post this, but I really like these
> guys.
>
> There's a company near downtown St. Louis called Hibdon Hardwood and it is
> a paradise of exotic lumber. After years of wholesaling exotics, primarily
> to instrument makers, they've opened a retail storefront. Hidden inside
> the unassuming shop, there's just stacks of beautiful wood. Sure, they
> have your curly maple, mahogany, purpleheart and so forth. But they have
> some spiffy stuff like macassar ebony, primavera, zebrawood, and figured
> purpleheart.
>
> I asked today how the retail side was going. "It's there" was the reply.
> Seems that things have been slow through out the summer. I'm only posting
> this because I don't want them to shut it down due to lack of interest.
> I'm selfish that way.
>
> So if you're loitering around St. Louis, check 'em out. You can look up
> their info easily enough. In fact, I'm pretty sure that you can Feel Lucky
> when Googling their name.
>
> Standard disclaimers apply. I'm not affiliated with them in any way,
> except as a mildly concerned customer.
>
> --
> Joe Wells
>