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   Lataxe | Jun 04, 2006 07:46pm | #1

   Frenchy,

   You wouldn't be interested in a large number of pieces of pitch pine, approx 3 cu in on avearge, would you?  Only a few of them have spelks, old nails, knots and shakes.  They would make nice...erm - well something. :-)

   Also, I have much sawdust and hessian sacks full of oak shavings from a drawknife.  If nothing else, this stuff is good for sniffing (which is not yet illegal).

   It's not often one comes across a Collector of Fine Wood with your discerning eye.

   Lataxe

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   forestgirl | Jun 04, 2006 08:04pm | #2

   Hey, Frenchy, it's been a long, long time since you've made one of these nauseating posts. ;-)  What's been goin' on?  Anyone ever tell you, you're a creep. <g>

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   

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   frenchy | Jun 05, 2006 01:50am | #4

   forestgirl, 

        I'm actually trying to get people to stop buying wood from the lumberyard or wood working shop. I realize not everybody needs as much wood as I use but that doesn't mean they should pay nearly ten times what it can be bought for..

             If you give woodmizer a call you'll get a list of people who own woodmisers. they are one source of cheap wood.. Wood miser sells their saws in every state in the union..

     Talk to them and you are bound to find another dozen or so sources of cheap wood.

         Maybe if I explain how your wood arrives at the place where you buy it and the costs involved you'll understand  why I can buy so cheap!

       A sawmill cuts up a tree and makes boards..   A wholesale broker  buys the wood and consolidates wood from several sawmills and sends it off to be graded..  ten cents a bd. ft. for grading and about another dime in profit and another to cover to cover shipping..   Now about 20% of the wood will be sent to a pallet mill..   Pallet mills use the lowest grades which are also the grades where flame and burl and fantastic figure is found!

      If you need smaller pieces you can still find  clear straight grained wood in shorter lenths.  even at the lowest grade!

      At that point another buyer (or maybe the same buyer) will buy the wood and send it off to the kiln for drying.. usually a month or so and the wood has dried and now another buyer sends it off to be surfaced and edged..

       Another broker who sells to your lumberyard (if it's big enough) and they need can use a full bunker (about a 1000 bd. ft.) of that species at a time.   If not another broker gets involved and buys bunkers of wood and sells it off to smaller lumberyards and wood worker stores..

     Each broker makes a little profit on each board, each board gets handled ten or more times and every hand that touches it needs to get paid..   Every time it's shipped around there is an expensive forklift, an expensive truck and expensive equipment around to handle it.. it's all paid for from the sale of wood!

     Right here in Minnesota a local lumberyard sells black walnut for $9.80 cents a bd. ft.   Well that is if you consider a piece of 3/4 inch wood as a bd. ft.   It's nice FAS wood.. wrapped in a nice clear wrapper.   

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   Knotscott | Jun 04, 2006 09:23pm | #3

   In the mid-80's, before I was into wwing, I had a speaker company and I contracted out the cabinetry to a local amateur who made a little cash on the side from his shop. He was always saying how he loved wood....I thought he was nuts at the time....It was the way he said it, but now I know exactly what he meant! Apparantly you do too! LOL....