Karma brought me LOTS of FREE wood today!

Wow! Where can I get a friend like that? great find… Makes me a little jealous. :)

-- Chris

Good catch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

I dunno, but I’m glad to have him for a friend. He actually asked me if I wanted to come back and get more later, but this stuff will literally last me a few years, unless I find the right projects to make with them. I do know that I’ll be making a lot of nice Xmas gifts this year, if I can find the time, before the weather get’s too bad.

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

Score! For having such a good friend, and the wood ain’t bad either :o)

-- "You get what you inspect, not what you expect"

Nice haul. I hope you offered to buy your friend an adult beverage or some equivalent.

I now have to go and change my shirt as I have drooled all over myself! Looks like you are going to have some serious shop time coming your way! Have fun!!

-- last night I played a blank tape at full volume - the mime next door went nuts!

What’s more important is that he didn’t say anything about a wife complaining about leaving this stuff lying around!
Wood karma is nice. Wife karma is great.

Lee

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

very nice haul… a great example of how it pays to know people.
and if he’s got more he’s willing to give up, you should get it. it’s not like these opportunities come up every day. ...and if you aren’t going to take it for yourself, take it for us!

-- www.darrylmasterson.com ~ www.darrylmasterson.etsy.com

Great score…....

-- Grant...."GO BUCKEYES"

Great score! Now, call him back for the rest Has to be some room under the basement stairs…

I know how you feel. Lumberjock Dennis Zongker has given me two goodly loads of offcuts and scraps that while too small to use/store from a cabinetmaker’s perspective, are perfect from a small boxmaker’s point of view. My shop is up to the gunwales with lumber. Under the stairs, under the beds, on top of the kitchen cabinets is next!

Last year, I hit the jackpot with tiger maple logs for bowl blanks, but stopped because I thought it might be imprudent. Now I torture myself by driving by to see his neighbors eight foot stack of tiger-striped cordwood…

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

The ol’ hearts a ponding at the thought of free wood. The only thing my friends give me is a hard time. You truely have a great friend!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

Thanks Folks. I offered to pay him numerous times, and each time he refused. I left the rest of the wood, because it didn’t appeal to me as much as the Black Walnut, Elm & Oak that I got. Plus the slabs alone, were worth it to me. While I was leaving other people started showing up, & one person gave me a hard time for taking the best stuff. I just smiled and muttered under my breath, “shoulda been here first”. Today, after I go shopping for materials for a deck I’m building for someone, I’ll thickness plane some of the bigger pcs of Black Walnut just enough to see what they look like with the roughness off of them.

I know I was tired last night, because I didn’t even dream about what I was going to build with ANY of this wood. Now THAT is a good nights sleep! (for me)

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

What ..you actually left wood behind? Isn’t that breaking some kind of code .. What a great friend. I’d throw a few nice steaks and some cold brewskies his way.. you know just to keep open the lines of commucation.

-- Ray,VA

Nice score! Good to know that wood will not go to waste but will be turned into several great projects.

-- Brian, Folsom, CA http://www.brianfullerdesigns.com

thanks for posting. looks like a great haul. lumber pics are my favorite posts. what a great variety!

That’s almost criminal!!

Great friend. I agree, at least some beer and steaks. I might even throw in my wife. (Only kidding).

-- Bob K. East Northport, NY

nice haul, I am a little jealous as I can’t afford wood to start any new projects….damn economy,lol….enjoy!

I need friends like that

-- There is no such thing as a mistake. Its called a design modification Rick Kruse, Grand Rapids, MI

hahaha, if he drank I’d offer beer, but I could possibly work on the steaks part. I can always call his wife and ask her what the preference in the home is and drop them by sometime. If he wasn’t such a great woodworker himself, I’d build him something form the wood, but I’ll definitely show him pics of what I build.

If shipping wasn’t so darned expensive I’d offer some of this stuff up, sans Walnut (sorry, that’s MINE ALL MINE).

-- Respect your shop tools and they will respect you - Ric

Something to be said for being at the right place at the right time. Nice score!

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

Just goes to show many of us think alike…Lots of people “see” or hear about piles of “old wood”...they just keep on going…”We” try to figure out HOW to take it all back to our shop, (make room to store it) and start thinking about WHAT to build next…

You’ve got some great ideas and projects…I’ll enjoy seeing what you share next…

Cheers

-- Mike

WOW – good gloat :)

I’m jealous (^2) very cool score – congrats!!!!