Where can I buy full round pine pole (unfinished) with 1-1/16" diameter?

[Sophie]

Where can I buy full-round pine poles (unfinished) with 1-1/16" diameter? Home Depot only sells 1-1/4" and bigger. Thanks!

[Thomas J. Lawrence]

1 1/16 is pretty specific. How long do these poles need to be?

[Sophie]

I need 11 pieces of 8" and 3 pieces of 11". Thanks!

[Sophie]

Sorry, I mean 11 pieces of 8 feet and 3 pieces of 11 feet (not inches). Actually the diameter has to be 2.8 cm.

[Thomas J. Lawrence]

Well, I don't know of any place that sells 2.8cm poles that are 8 or 11 feet long. You could probably have a local woodworker make them for you but nothing off the shelf as far as I know. What I could suggest, however, is that you make your own. If you own a router then there's a way to make your own dowels (poles or whatever) in just about any size you like. If you're interested in this then I'll elaborate.


-Tom

[Sophie]

Thank you for your response.
I have found some sites that sell those poles.
I wrote an e-mail to them,
but most of them sell only to distributors.
One of them (woodply.com) is willing to sell them to me, but they only have fir poles (not pine). I don't know what the difference between fir and pine is.
Another site (millworkstore.com) has poplar poles, but they haven't sent me a response yet. Again, I don't know what the difference between poplar and pine is.

Thanks again!