What do you pay for hardwood?

The biggest place in Chicago charges $5.29 for 4/4 hard maple surfaced on two sides.

todd

That's roughly what Maple is here in Houston for S2S1E ... deduct about .60 b/f for rough 4/4. Cherry is about the same, and the last 3/4" Oak sheet goods I bought a few months back was around $116/4X8. I buy a good deal of QS white oak and it runs around $5.45 b/f for rough 4/4, and $6.20 for S2S1E.

There are some places that are cheaper, but I find the waste factor and grain is generally better at the places with higher prices. I've gotten some QSWO locally for as little as $2.25 bf, but most of it was unusable with regard to length ... and length is generally more important for my projects than width.

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Mike

Geez Swingman, where are you buying? I'm looking at a price sheet that gets passed out to the general public during the summer and 4/4 s3s Hard Maple is going for $4.75 b/f. I get a contractor break on that. Cherry $5.95. Red Oak A-1 VC $58.95 & LC $65.95. White Oak 4/4 $3.75 s3s. Not sure about the QS. This is at HardWood PRODUCTS.

Where are you buying? If I want better with out hunting I go to HardWood Lumber..

Wow it sucks to be some of you guys. If I had to pay over a hundred bucks for a single sheet of oak (yuck) plywood Id never make a dime. I have a local supplier here that can get me all the maple I want for about $3.75. The last time I was there (last week) there was a large pile of good looking

Jim

too much!

dave

Mark wrote:

There is another family owned lumbaryard (still trying to find the exactly location) up North in KC selling less than the above price.

Those prices were actually from Hardwood Lumber over in the Heights, and off recent invoices. The plywood was QS, as well as the white oak ... they're damn proud of QS. You must be better looking than me. :)

Brian do you have a store name? The Cherry might be worth shipping for me, the same boards are $2.00 more a foot locally.

Well that explains it... they are proud, but do take good care of their wood. With he new bins getting wood is much easier. You do know about Hardwood Products also don't you?

Yes, Thanks. I've been to Hardwood Products a few times. I live in West U, which is not that far from Hardwood Lumber if you go straight down Montrose, with no freeway driving with a pile of lumber on top of my old Jeep Cherokee..

Been going to Hardwood Lumber for a good while, and some of my family were doing business with them back when they were "Clarkson's" (IIRC, that was the name back then) ... good guys, good wood, good figure, not so good prices ... but I've gotten what I've paid for there with very little waste, which makes up for the price differential much of the time.

Their dimensioned hardwoods are out of sight, price wise, and not even considered ... except on the rare occasion when you can find that one board with just the right figure and width or length requirement, AND someone else is paying for it.

Nice just look through some of that stuff, though.

hard & soft Maple $1-$1.25/bf Curly Maple ( hard and soft ) $2/bf Walnut $1-$2/bf Cherry $1-$2/bf

All prices are in Canadian $$ :)

--Raj

I get a kick walking through the back buildings where the large stuff is. ;~) I first bought there in 1978.

This is where I buy my wood from. Great people to deal with. I am local, but they do ship.

Scott