Hello all,
I am a relatively inexperienced woodworker, and would like to know where,
and in what form, do most of you get your wood.
Do you pros buy logs or roughly cut timber and turn it into squared-out
slats using bandsaw, planer and jointer? Where do you get your wood? The
only place i can think of to buy wood here in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) is
at the hardware shop (Home depot-style), where they only sell overpriced,
pre-planed/jointed slats of wood.
thanks
Wed, Nov 10, 2004, 4:37pm [email protected] (Zed=A0Rafi) claims:
Hello all,
I am a relatively inexperienced woodworker, and would like to know
where, and in what form, do most of you get your wood. <snip>
Yeah, woodfinder is good. Check the telphone book too. Go by your
local hardeware store, and ask if they know where you can buy wood.
Dumpster diving, often fun. Check appliance stores, etc., that dump
pallets, and ask them if you can have them. You can get some good wood
that way, free. Check your version of bargain shopper papers too. Or
just ask around, friends, neighbors, whoever.
JOAT
Viet Nam, divorce, cancer. Been there, done that. Now, where the Hell
are my T-shirts?
Zed Rafi asks:
>I am a relatively inexperienced woodworker, and would like to know where,
>and in what form, do most of you get your wood.
>
>Do you pros buy logs or roughly cut timber and turn it into squared-out
>slats using bandsaw, planer and jointer? Where do you get your wood? The
>only place i can think of to buy wood here in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) is
>at the hardware shop (Home depot-style), where they only sell overpriced,
>pre-planed/jointed slats of wood.
Rash assumption since it has been 30 years since I've looked at a Quebec phone
book: Yellow Pages. Check under "Hardwoods." If that fails, go talk to a local
cabinetmaker. I guarantee you they're not buying from a big box store.
Charlie Self
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence
clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of
hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." H. L. Mencken
Zed Rafi wrote:
> I am a relatively inexperienced woodworker, and would like to know where,
> and in what form, do most of you get your wood.
From dead trees, mostly. Pity, I agree, but that's where wood comes
from. :(
> Do you pros buy logs or roughly cut timber and turn it into squared-out
> slats using bandsaw, planer and jointer? Where do you get your wood? The
> only place i can think of to buy wood here in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) is
> at the hardware shop (Home depot-style), where they only sell overpriced,
> pre-planed/jointed slats of wood.
You got trees aintcha? Now alls you need is an axe and an adz and some hand
planes. :)
(Or you could ignore my insane babbling and follow the good advice in the
other posts. I'm in a strange mood today.)
--
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Zed Rafi wrote:
> I am a relatively inexperienced woodworker, and would like to know where,
> and in what form, do most of you get your wood.
Ask around or go for a drive and look for sawmills. I buy my red
oak for $ 0.65 a BF at the local sawmill. Air dried, but I can
live with that.
Dave in Fairfax
--
Dave Leader
reply-to doesn't work
use:
daveldr at att dot net
American Association of Woodturners
http://www.woodturner.org
Capital Area Woodturners
http://www.capwoodturners.org/
PATINA
http://www.Patinatools.org/
Do an advanced search at EBAY for lumber within
so many miles of your postal code.
If you find a guy selling within a reasonable distance
from where you live drop him a line and see if you can
purchase and pick up at his location to negate shipping
costs.
Another way is to go to woodfinder.com and do an
area search for a lumber dealer.
Joey
"Zed Rafi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello all,
>
> I am a relatively inexperienced woodworker, and would like to know where,
> and in what form, do most of you get your wood.
>
> Do you pros buy logs or roughly cut timber and turn it into squared-out
> slats using bandsaw, planer and jointer? Where do you get your wood? The
> only place i can think of to buy wood here in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) is
> at the hardware shop (Home depot-style), where they only sell overpriced,
> pre-planed/jointed slats of wood.
>
> thanks
>
>
I have the extremely good fortune to live 20 minutes away from a place
called Condon Lumber in Stormville, NY. They stock just about anything you
could want in wood, all at reasonable prices. You do need a planer & Joiner
to work with it though, as it's all semi-rough. (mostly skip planed )
--
Keith
"Zed Rafi" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello all,
>
> I am a relatively inexperienced woodworker, and would like to know where,
> and in what form, do most of you get your wood.
>
> Do you pros buy logs or roughly cut timber and turn it into squared-out
> slats using bandsaw, planer and jointer? Where do you get your wood? The
> only place i can think of to buy wood here in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) is
> at the hardware shop (Home depot-style), where they only sell overpriced,
> pre-planed/jointed slats of wood.
>
> thanks
>
>
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> Hello all,
>
> I am a relatively inexperienced woodworker, and would like to know where,
> and in what form, do most of you get your wood.
>
> Do you pros buy logs or roughly cut timber and turn it into squared-out
> slats using bandsaw, planer and jointer? Where do you get your wood? The
> only place i can think of to buy wood here in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) is
> at the hardware shop (Home depot-style), where they only sell overpriced,
> pre-planed/jointed slats of wood.
>
> thanks
>
>
>
I usually use dried rough cut stock from hardwood suppliers. The
suppliers were found by opening a local phone book and looking under
hardwoods as well as various other suitable headings.
--
MikeG
Heirloom Woods
www.heirloom-woods.net
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