Anyone have a favorite source for 1/8, 1/4" and 3/8" domestic and exotic hardwood?
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15 years ago
Anyone have a favorite source for 1/8, 1/4" and 3/8" domestic and exotic hardwood?
Unless you're planning on having it air shipped to you from halfway around the world, I suggest you indicate where approximately you live.
Sorry, I'm in Texas...
I think the usual course of action would be to buy it rough and resaw it.
Chris
okay, big state.
where in texas?
If you were in or close to Houston I could name three places on the northwest side alone.
Dave in Houston
Yes.
If it's Texas, just wait for the next big flood. And pick your lumber out of the debris piles.
Hum - know anyone down at the ship channel ? Some cargo ships use exotic (foreign) wood to block and brace with. Some big stuff we used to get years ago overseas.
Just an idea.
Mart> Marty wrote:
Some decades ago a pal of mine who is a fanatical woodworker went to Africa to teach for two years, Tanzania. When he was about to return he bought a whole bunch of real interesting wood, and had it carefully made into extra-heavy-duty shipping crates in which to return his household goods, and by carefully I mean he plotted out every screw and nail hole. Of course when he got back he dismantled the crates and stacked the wood on racks, he's still building stuff out of it all these years later. I hate to think what some of those slabs are worth today.
How about in El Paso?
Max
I like Hardwood Lumber Company of Dallas. They're on the web. Ask for Tom (it's not me).
Tom
Brilliant! _ing Brilliant!
There used to be a couple places up the street from me that put out pallets for people to take. Not any more. But I would cut them up for firewood. Then I noticed that some of them were unusually heavy and hard. The chainsaw had difficulty cutting through them.
I began to cut the ends, nails, etc and save the good parts. I never knew what kind of wood it was. Just that they came from all over the world and some of the wood was wildly figured and unusally colored.
I had a pretty good stack of this and was contemplating projects for this pile of mystery wood. Then one day a friend brought somebody by who examined the pile and got very excited. He apparently knew about some of this wood. Now this is the part where it gets surreal. He pulled some money out of his pocket and started waving it around. He wanted to buy all of it.
I figured I would just get more of this up the street. In a moment of weakness, I took the cash. Then the folks up the street moved and my source was no longer available. Oh, well.....
Dave Balderstone wrote in news:230220092251301502%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca:
I still have some of the nice pine from the shipping crate some of our stuff was shipped in from Holland. Until a few months ago some of it served as the base of a window seat bench. Eventually I'll have used it all up. Of course, this was just a pine container, not exotic wood.
Yeah, unfortunately there are no exotic hardwoods floating around in those floods.
Go ahead and name them. ;~) woodcraft, Austin Hardwoods maybe, and.....
Mason Mill & Lumber on Tanner (east of Beltway 8 and Gessner)
Hardwoods of Houston (on W34 a couple of blocks north of Hwy. 290)
Hardwood Products (on Westside of Beltway 8 just north of Bison)
There's always the big place on 5th or 5-1/2 off Studewood
Dave in Houston
Some of them offer 1/8" 1/4" and 3/8" stock?
Anyway thanks, all these years and I have never been to Mason.
Hardwood products does not have anything less than 4/4 unless that has happened in the last few months, same goes for Clarks in the Heights, that big place. ;~)
What surprised me is nobody in Customs thought to wonder why his crates were made of 2" and 3" slabs of wood. I'd have expected them to charge him import duty on hardwoods, but he got it all in under the radar just for the cost of shipping. He brought back a lot of cool furniture too, his seats-eight dining-room table is a slab of some African hardwood that must be 4" thick, all hand-carved. Clever bastard. ;~)
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