Reply by Fred Hargis

Typically a specialty hardwood supplier, the one I uses has all cuts, but specializes in quarter sawn and rift sawn wood. It’s also a sawmill as opposed to just a lumber retailer. But the best buys I’ve gotten came in private sales….sometimes they show up on woodworking forum classifieds. Other than construction lumber, I never buy wood at the box stores…much too expensive. Buying it rough sawn and milling it down your self also saves….once you have the tools to do it.

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