I am located in Connecticut, Fairfield County, and am looking for a source to buy stickers from. Suggestions on source?
I am going to air dry about 3,500 – 4,000 BF of lumber. I am guessing that I’ll need perhaps 600 stickers. Scrounging around for material to turn into stickers has not yielded results. So I am considering buying stickers. A lumber yard I called said they buy their’s at 11c/sticker, but have not bought any in a long time. At a price around that, it would be cheaper buying stickers rather than buying lumber and ripping it up, even if there is a shipping cost involved.
All ideas invited and welcome.
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I just bought 1,400 Massaranduba dogbone profile stickers from the sticker division of Downes and Reader in Stoughton MA. About 28 cents apiece plus shipping and they last longer than maple and other stickers we've used. You should also post in http://www.woodweb.com in the drying forum. It's a professional wood forum.
Thanks for your response. I might just follow suit and buy the same ones you bought. The sawing is almost done and had I thought through the whole project before hand, I'd have had the stickers already. I am thinking 48" stickers.Would it be possible for you to tell me more specs of what you ordered? Size? Length? The price sounds fine to me. It is past normal business hours and I am wondering how they ship. I'll probably buy about 600-700.Is there any staining concern with the species?
The stickers are a standard 7/8" x 1-1/4" x 48" dogbone profile. You can't just buy any amount. I buy bundles of 1408 stickers and try to have them piggy back them on other trips between warehouses. I'm in process of buying 2 bundles of the remaining bundles from their warehouse in Mobile Ala where they come in by ship from South America. They are milled in South America so it's cheaper to ship that way and milling them here would cost more. It's costing me $200 to piggyback them to there warehouse in PA and will cost me $100 to have them shipped from Stoughton to our shop in Western MA. A bundle weighs 1,700 lbs. Other prices I've gotten for fluted and straight maple stickers are 75 cents for new and less for used. Not including shipping The massandubra stickers are also called iron wood and are on par with ipe for durability. Perfectly clear with no knots so they last and can be used many times. You might find stickers for less but they will probably cost more in the long run and not last as long. With shipping these will cost me under 39 cents each.
I was thinking they probably come in standard bundles. What is the size of one of those 1,408 sticker bundles? Approximate is fine. I might just buy one bundle and split them with someone else - if I can find someone that is. What are some other sources you looked at? The sawing is probably a one-shot deal for me - but who knows !
7/8" x 1-1/4" x 48" x 1408 ...do the math for the size ofthe bundle.
Will do - thanks for all your input.
alfie,
I went to Home depot and bought all mine.. they were on sale for dirt cheap.. and I checked them with the moisture metere and they varied between 10% and 14% moisture.. I've now milled and dried 50,000 bd.ft. and I've got about a zillion left that I'm slowly bruning with other scrap wood..
(nothing sticker stained by the way)
I looked at Home Depot, and the stuff there did not work out. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Just in case somebody finds their way to this thread, here is some information I found out:The size of the bundle of 1,408 sticks is 30" high x 40" wide x 96" long.
The weight is 2,000 lb.
The species could be any one of three, each of which is considered suitable for stickers, and is consistent within a bundle.
The price I was quoted is 32c/stick ($450/bundle), FOB North Carolina.
Freight turns out to be more than the sticks - $665 in my case. The delivered price/stick works out to almost 80c/stick for me.These sound like good sticks, though I decided against buying them.
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