FINALLY!

[Sonny Edmonds]

I've always had trouble find a great source in my area for wood.
So yesterday I needed some rough cut for repairs.
I walk in to the ONLY lumber yard I haven't been to. An old barn looking tin building of emence porportions.
I'm telling the gent what I need and who sent me to him as I'm looking at the wood all over the place. Neatly, but everywhere.
And when I spyed a board about 12-14" wide and about 20' long standing vertically, well I knew I'd found heaven.
This huge sentinal was solid Purpleheart. Flanked by assorted hardwoods of the world, and birdseye maples and vaneered samples of other burl stocks available.
As we gathered what I needed we talked and I knew I'd found my wood supply, AT LAST! Turning burls! Turning blanks! Carvers pieces!
All spieces!
Boards and blanks and piles and pieces,
A wonderfull hord, and that's no feces!
Oh joy of Joy!
Come on April!
We'll be settled and projects to be makin',
A local treasure chest to be gone through,
Newhall Lumber I'm glad I found you!
:P

(Well what can I say? I'm glad I found a treasure box in my own neck of the woods, When I touched a particularly large board of Birdseye Maple, it winked at me! :) I knew I'd found my nervana. )

:D

Sonny Edmonds
"Precision Firewood Specialist"
[link:home.earthlink.net/~sonnypie/ | Sonny's Shop Pages]
God Bless America !
One Nation Under God! Or you can bite my A$$ and just leave!

[FireWrks7]

... mental note to self, "if I can't find nuffin in LA, then go out to Newhall to get me some Lumber."

[WoodMangler]

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s ! !

As hard as it's been for both of us to find decent wood, did ya ever think of opening a lumberyard?... :)

[TDHofstetter]

Sonny, you gonna be a po' boy - but you gonna be a happy one.

He who dies with the most wood wins. :)

-- Tim --


You can always take one more step against the wind.

[dicklaxt]

Thats probably right.......what were the prices like?You know on my last foray to the hardwood store I spent $103.xx and made two bowls and a coaster, I got one piece of maple 1 x 2 x 36" and some assorted scraps left. I got to find a deal place somewhere.

dick

[Keystone]

1 ton pick-up, trailer and some driving Dick! Head north into MO and IA and you'll get good prices on Oak, walnut etc.......



Yup Sonny is gonna go broke with all that wood!

[Sonny Edmonds]

...about prices.
It ain't like I can go to Kmart down the road and find the same thing there, Ya Know?
When I do I'll let Ya's know.
But there are so very many variables when buying something like wood. To the seller it is a commodity, to us woodworkers it is a thing of beauty and a one of a kind piece.
They are looking at profit. We see the beauty of what we might successfully make from it.
And, I suppose, profit in a end result, if we were to sell it as a work of our skill.
Of course if it becomes a bunch of blown projectiles flying to the far reaches of the shop, it was just another hunk of firewood. :7

:D

Sonny Edmonds
"Precision Firewood Specialist"
[link:home.earthlink.net/~sonnypie/ | Sonny's Shop Pages]
God Bless America !
One Nation Under God! Or you can bite my A$$ and just leave!