Help with Lumber Supply

Have you tried www.woodfinder.com?

-- http://theinquisitivewoodworker.com/

Thanks Mike but that was the first place I looked.

-- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short!

Contact a few shops in your area and see where they get it from. Maybe find places that make outdoor furniture and talk to them.

try changing the dimensions of your request. Look for 3×6, 4×6 or 6×6 and then consider selling the offcut if you don’t need it. Obvious I know but . . .Here on the Left Coast where seismic activity is a sport building codes call for certain nail patterns & min. lumber dimensions, with 3x nom. lumber at shear panel edges due certain nailing requirements. The upshot of this is that often 3×6 sawn lumber is more expensive than 4 x 6 even though 4 x has more b.f. and satisfies the same code requirement. Makes no sense but there it is.

Shaun, call Mike at (401) 258-9420l. He is in RI and should be able to help you. Cost is in the $6.50 to $7/bf range. He sells a lot of wood on the Woodnet forums and everyone is very pleased with him and his lumber.

-- Paul D, Atlanta GA

I wonder what the shipping would cost you from Idaho….

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

All I find here is Eastern Red Cedar. Won’t that work, Shaun? I think it comes from Tennessee.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

You may also want to try www.woodweb.com

-- A. T. Williams Creation's

Check A&M wood specialty. www.forloversofwood.com They ship worldwide for a reasonable price.

Because of the quantity you need, you would also get a 15% discount.

-- The only easy wood project is a fire

Also- top quality lumber- my avatar is WR from A&M

-- The only easy wood project is a fire

Hey everyone, thanks for the tremendous response to this. I even had folks PM me and offer to arrange a purchase in their neck of the woods and have the lumber shipped to me. The extent that people on this site are willing to go to in order to help each other out is astounding.

So here’s the story, I can buy 4/4 Western Red Ceadar for $3/bf all day long around here. But as soon as you ask for 8/4 the price triples and it becomes a special order. I don’t get it but that’s the way it seems to be. A fellow jock (Sawdust2) pointed me to a yard in Stoughton MA that he used to use when he lived up this way and although I got the same response as I got everywhere else for the WRC they did have a rack full of Spanish Cedar, so Spanish Cedar it is. The color’s going to be little different but I think it’ll work. At least I hope so, I brought home 100 bf of it yesterday.

Thanks again for all the responses!

-- I've cut that board three times and it's still too short!