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Man I sure wish I had such an option.

yeah, my woodworking would be completely different if I didn’t have such an option. Honestly, what gets me excited about woodworking is getting to use different woods and planing rough sawn lumber to reveal its hidden beauty. If I only had big box store lumber I probably wouldn’t be doing this hobby.

Yeah thats awesome hope you’re getting great prices.

I am very lucky to have Hobby Hardwood Alabama just 20 miles from my house. They only stock domestic hardwood, most of it harvested within 100 miles, but it’s beautiful stock at a reasonable price. It’s a great place to shop.

Lucky guy.

Madts.

I have a guy about 15 miles from me that has his own saw mill , solar drying room and a huge in door stock pile of a large variety of different types of wood..

Your fortunate to have a local wood supplier willing to stock a variety of wood.

We have a WINDSOR PLYWOOD store nearby and it has a good selection of hardwoods domestic and exotic which is nice .
I have known the owner for a long time and even now that he is retired he loves talking to us wood guys even so he is not a craftsman himself ,his kids run the business now and nothing has changed and the service is great .
I also ran across a lead to another local business that cuts down storm damaged and unwanted trees and they have recently set up a solar kiln .
I will go and check it out because from what I have been told they have some very interesting inventory .

Klaus

I am so stuck with plain woods, it sux.

Klaus, I had a Windsor Plywood in Winnipeg and in Thunder Bay. Interestingly, for Winnipeg being such a large city compared to Thunder Bay, the store there had a really small collection of hardwood, Thunder Bay was much better.