Went toward the Beech on Black Friday!

That’s a real nice buy, especially up here… Nice job! Wood looks to be of excellent quality. I’d say you’re all set for your bench build!

-- John, BC, Canada

You got a great deal on that wood. German beech is very god for a workbench. Seems to be the perfect hardness and grain type.
Have fun on your build, builds?

-- Oldworld, Fair Oaks, Ca

Nice score Randy, congrats on the Beech!

Maybe make benches and sell them with the extra stock you have.

Nice Randy. Congrats on all that wood. I built my bench out of German steamed beech and love it. I’m sure you’ll find it to be a great material to work with.

-- "hold fast to that which is good"

Holy cow, that’s alot of wood! Beautiful, too.
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Two benches? Maybe three? :-)

-- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. -- OldTools Archive

That’s some nice quality wood for a great price! When it’s got your name on it, it’s got your name on it.

Wish I lived closer, would be glad to take some off your hands for MY bench build! lol

-- Optimists are usually disappointed. Pessimists are either right or pleasantly surprised. I tend to be a disappointed pessimist.

Send the left over to me!!!

Seriously, beech is AWESOME for a workbench. My Ulmia, like all others, is made from German red beech. What you could do with some of the left over, is make tools. Red beech is/was the wood of choice for wooden bodied planes and all kinds of other wooden tools. Great wood to work with.

Good Luck with your new bench, you got one of the best woods around to build with.

-- Mike

sweet. That will be one fine bench Randy.

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Thanks for the comments, guys, I will certainly put up more information on the bench build once the Benchcrafted hardware arrives and I get started…

Appreciate the suggestions for use of the extra lumber!

One of the reasons I snapped it up (besides price) was because of the appreciation of my long wearing beech Ulmia bench, glad to see others feel the same about it.

Also like the fact the lift came from a sustainable forest program…

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."

That’s a great price Randy. Congrats. Why not make a matching saw bench with some of the left over wood?

-- Andy -- Old Chinese proverb say: If you think something can't be done, don't interrupt man who is doing it.

That’s wonderful Randy. I have said before, my only gripe with my bench is that the soft maple with the curl, ambrosia worms, etc makes for a visually busy surface. Beech will be perfect.

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