Where do you find your wood?
- Thread starter cnsranch
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- Join a wood club that local wood suppliers offer discounts. I can get 10-15% off at woodworkers source by belonging to the SCW woodclub.
- Do group buys with other wood workers.
- At our club we have a free wood area. It is amazing what some people throw away.
Happy hunting.
But in the end, yes segment turning using some exotics is just expensive. But the end product is worth it.
- Do group buys with other wood workers.
- At our club we have a free wood area. It is amazing what some people throw away.
Happy hunting.
But in the end, yes segment turning using some exotics is just expensive. But the end product is worth it.
Check Ebay
Art Bodwell
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The good thing with segmenting, the exotics are usually a small percentage of the vessel, so not much is needed.
For doing open segment work, I use eBay all the time. There are several companies that make 'thin lumber' and if you search eBay for that you'll see that there are lots of choices in everything from 1/8" to 3/8" in a number of different species (fex exotics, though). They are all sanded for thickness and when I apply a micrometer to them, they are usually accurate to within a few hundredths.
The boards are usually about 3" wide and 18"- 24" so that they can fit in a USPS Priority Mail box. I keep stacks of each species near my saws so that I can just grab one and cut it into the widths I'll need. This approach lets me cut segments for a project very quickly.
The boards are usually about 3" wide and 18"- 24" so that they can fit in a USPS Priority Mail box. I keep stacks of each species near my saws so that I can just grab one and cut it into the widths I'll need. This approach lets me cut segments for a project very quickly.