Search for Interesting Cut-Offs
I primarily make small woodstuffs (my name keychains being the most popular) and I feel really guilty buying a large board of some beautiful exotic or domestic hardwood and then hacking it up into pieces that I can use. I feel that the board should go into a fine piece of furniture. I then had an idea to email a request to internet lumber dealers for shorts and cut-offs that might otherwise be tossed into a landfill. I also hoped to add to my selection of woods for my customers with some interesting woods from around the world. I currently offer oak, maple, walnut, mesquite, zebrawood, rosewood and purpleheart. Out of about fifteen requests sent out, I received exactly one (1) respo...
