Where/How To Buy Hard Maple

[jegan]

I live in the Denver area and I'm looking for about 200 board feet of hard maple. I haven't found a decent source for hard maple. What I have found so far is pretty expensive.

I did a search on the Internet for companies that will ship lumber and what I have found seems to come up being less expensive than purchasing locally.

Can anyone recommend a reputable company with reasonable prices that will sell through the Internet and ship? Anything I should be watching out for? I have never purchased lumber sight unseen so I'm a bit leery of doing so.

Thanks, Jim

[Mike in Mystic]

I've bought a few pallet loads of hardwood from these guys:

am in CT so shipping from Buffalo, NY wasn't bad at all, so I can't be sure it'll cost you to get it to Denver, but their prices are pretty good so it might be work a try.

They shipped the items promptly and they were packaged very well. All of the stuff I got was in the rough, but it was fairly good quality, with a few boards having more knots, etc. than I would like. Probably the same would happen no matter where you get it.

Mike

[L. Wilson]

Drive to Fort Collns to Sears Trostel in Old Town. Good wood, great folks. They buy bulk and mill their own finished stock.

LFW [e-mail]

jegan wrote:

[Toller]

I got all excited because I am only 60 miles from Buffalo, but they are only about 10% less than where I buy my lumber now. The gas would exceed the savings. Are you saying there is no one in CT competitive after the freight!

[B a r r y B u r k e J r .]

Mike, What did they hit you for shipping to CT? Was it shipped via truck or UPS(or a competitor).

Thanks, Barry

[Alan Bierbaum]

You did not say where you looked. I use Austin Hardwoods for most of my maple and Paxton for the rest. It is not cheap to get dry FAS maple in Denver. Both of these places will supply top quality wood shipment after shipment with no second guessing necessary. I normally pick my own lumber from the racks; however I would take their picks without any worries.

[RTH]

these folks. Nice people, they skip plane to save some wgt on shipping and will give est price on shipping if you ask.

[David Babcock]

[Edwin Pawlowski]

CT hardwoods is competitive. They are 90¢ higher in price, but for that price will plane it to the desired thickness and give you one straight edge.

have a nifty high powered planer that does both sides at the same time. The straight edge is saw cut. The board is carried on a belt and taken through the blade. Ed [e-mail]

[EL]

Try Bear Creek Lumber in Washington state.

a decade ago I bought the lumber and cedar siding for a 6,000 sq ft house and had it shipped from the Pacific to the Atlantic for much less than I could buy it locally. They were very easy to work with and the quality was great.

Boden

jegan wrote:

[John McCoy]

"David Babcock" wrote in news:4saBb.468128 $HS4.3651197@attbi_s01:

close to complete (and, in my experience, it usually includes the high $ chain outlets, and misses the serious dealers who offer the good prices for people willing to take 100bf lots)

John

[John McCoy]

[e-mail] (jegan) wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Steve Wall lumber is good.

Dunno how bad shipping to CO would be, tho. I'd guess there's places closer which would be cheaper. Seems like there's a place in Iowa that gets good reviews, but I can't recall the name.

John

[jegan]

I didn't want to mention any company names. I had web shopped both those places and was not pleased with the prices. I used to live in Houston and purchased maple locally there for a LOT less that both of those companies where listing on their web sites or by phone.

Thanks for the assurance that both a good places to shop.

-- Jim

[jegan]

Excellent! Thanks for the link.

-- Jim