Man what a good video. I am 32 and just getting into woodworking. I have always been into tools and things as I am in the trades, but this is a whole new world. I walked into my local Woodcraft, browsed around, got overwhelmed and left haha!! I knew I had to do more research before diving right in lol! Thank you very much for the info!
I watched this video a few months back, and I just watched it again because I'm about to make my first trip to a "Hardwood" dealer. This is great info, and I know it will come in handy tomorrow! Thanks Marc!
This was fantastic. I'm a worry-wort, and am super intimidated about going to the hardwood dealer. I'm committed to developing myself as a woodworker, so I know I need to get over it and start shopping for the good stuff -- this video will help.
WOW! I learned a lot, you saved me some time and money. I like your videos, you are so knowledgable and you don't mind sharing. Nice skit too, your wife did an EXCELLENT job!
The US tried to switch but it was unsuccessful. I guess it's a matter of tradition, habit, and of course businesses incurring expense for having to switch to a new weights and measures system. My background is in biology and chemistry where everything is metric, and I love the system's simplicity. I really wish we could find a way to switch as a nation.
I was in school learning that very thing when Carter tried to impliment that and it was only a half hearted attempt, we learned our system more and since they were teaching both it made learning them kinda hard for me but the metric system was easier. But hey who doesn't love trying to add and subtract fractions...am I right :P
@@Esophagone: This is an old subject, but so am I. When I was in elementary school (60s), they tried to teach us the metric system but they did it Bass Acwards. They taught it by comparisons and conversions to the American Standard. STU...PID. The way to teach a new measurement system is to give the student a tape measure and say "Use it!". You can't learn this by conversions and comparisons. Just a bunch of pointless and confusing math. No one learned a damned thing and then it was dropped. And it could have been so simple.
I liked the explaination of quarter, rift and flat-sawn lumber and how the wood is expected to expand. Some great tips I really never knew about before...thank you!
Thanks! I remember this video from a long time ago and couldn't remember where I saw it. I found myself in a hardwood dealer for the 1st time today wishing I had rewatched this. Now I'm ready to roll.
Ha, heard you mention the other day about your first videos. I've been watching for maybe 4 or 5 years I guess, maybe a little more, but don't think I've come back this far before, although that "we sell wood" sign looks familiar It is cool to see how far the channel has come.
I think it would be really awesome if you remade some of these early videos in high definition. These older videos are very helpful but difficult to see in standard def. Great info.
Thanks Marc. Seeing you wrestling with explaining board feet made me thankful that we went metric all those years ago. When i was a teenager I had a job in a timber merchants office calculating invoices and had to learn about board feet then, i'd forgotten how difficult it is compared to just multiplying millimetres.
I enjoyed this video, got a kick out of the beginning skit, mostly because it was true for me, too. The one difference was the awe I felt looking at all the different types of wood available. Some good information in here.
This helped since I had the same exact feeling/experience when I went to my first lumber yard. No hot girl though. It actually took me a few weeks to walk in to the place for the first time! Thanks for the tips!
After buying so much lumber from the big box stores, I was drawn to this video. This was so informative. I made my way across town to the hardwood dealer and purchased a bunch of 1x6 cypress, S2S, and asked the salesman to calculate the board-foot amount. It was 38.6 bf and the price per bf was $5.85. I looked at the rough stock as well but decided on S2S because it would save a lot of time, as it was already the thickness I wanted. My wife was thinking I would be spending upwards of $400 for this, but the total was $225.81. This plus hardware would make the material cost of each Adirondack chair only $129! Not bad for chairs that will last for many years, even out in the weather. Of course the finish cost will drive up the material cost a little, but I haven't decided on the finish. Thanks for taking the scare factor out of buying better lumber! You really helped me out!
One of the funnies parts about this video is that the "forget your calculator" comment was way more of an issue at the time this video was made since this video predates the ubiquitous smart phone by about a year.
@islandquilting Thanks for the kind words! Yes all of these videos and more can be found on our website. We also have helpful articles, project posts, shop tours, and an active woodworking forum, as well a live page where you can watch other woodworkers around the world do their thing in their own shops. Pretty cool stuff. You should stop by.
I love your videos. I always learn something, you speak in understandable English, there's always a laugh or two, and you aren't patronizing your viewership. Can all your videos be accessed through your website as well? Thanks a million from a woman woodworker.
Great info-I need to start shopping for some rough lumber for my future projects! I know I'm late to the party but I'm excited to see your woodworking progress throughout all your videos-starting from the beginning!
Fantastic and informative info for a novice like myself! I subscribed a while back and your video are really special because you cover the little things that most of the video maker assume I already know. Thanks dude!
Your videos are really well done, I watch them all with pleasure. I scour the internet so I can direct my students to the best. Your are one of those! One small point here... Plain sawn is the most common lumber, flat sawn is not offered. You did show a flat sawn board, but most boards include a little bit of quarter, rift and flat, in other words plain sawn.. That is why the lumber is almost always cupped a little.
+Michael Bray thanks Michael! From my experience, plain sawn and flat sawn are simply synonyms. Generally speaking, you should not find rift and quarter sawn stock in a plain sawn pile, though some portions of some boards will contain vertical and angled grain. But they are still flat sawn/plain sawn.
Thanks for the videos. For an amateur I I watched your video's to assist in building my wall unit for my office, and they helped me a lot, especially the ones with finishes and its importance. You should get a kickback from general finishes, because if wasn't for your demonstrations I would have used minwax (which I will never use again)..
This is exactly how it happened to me today (first time to the lumber yard).except for the customer service girl. He wasn’t ugly but.... anyways, Thought I was ready to graduate from HD’s lumber yard but left empty handed. Ugh if only I had thought to check to see if you shot a video about it before hand. This was really helpful Marc. I’m ready for another go.
That is indeed my wife and no that's not how we met. But that would be a good story. :) I do indeed recommend plywood from a good hardwood dealer. As for quality, I'd first rely on the standard grading system. Usually that's pretty reliable for selecting sheetgoods.
Definitely not a stupid question. The answer is yes. Its not really a functional board when oriented that way. But technically yes, that would be quartersawn.
@southelgindad I would check with the hardood store for plywoods as well. For instance, I live in Hawaii and wood is pretty hard to get here sometimes. There too many wood stores on Oahu. Most of the lumber yards store their wood outside and it rains almost daily so it is pretty wet. However, there is a plywood specific store here (Plywood Hawaii) that carries great plywood and hardwoods as well. They offer not only the standard types of ply you would see in a big box store but other kinds as well, such as koa, teak, bamboo, oak, sapele, mahogony ect... They carry each type in 1/4 inch to 1 inch and some up to 1.5 inches. Most of their selection they also offer in prefinished as well, which saves a lot of time in finishing. And the best part, their wood is actually less expensinve then going to Home Depot.
@TheSenior53 I never posted those on UA-cam for some reason. Honestly can't even remember why at this point. You can always check them out at my website though.
I did the Smart thing I called them! then was told you buy by the bf not how wide it is! So I went with the flow. Now I call in ask for 40bf od XXX rough cut walk in pay for it pick it up and split. we don't get to pick out our lumber. Add 10 to 20% for waste.............its wood none of its going to waste, I'll keep the scraps forever!
Windsor Plywood in Canada or at least my local store is very helpful hardwood shop and is very customer service focused. Their main business is just like you said but they seem unusually focused on accommodating recreational woodworkers. Now my local home hardware.....thats another story.
Went to my local hardwood yard recently, wasnt sure if i needed to watch this but once i was there im glad i did, it can be overwhelming. Problem is, i budgeted £60-70 for my wood and it was only £10, half way home i realised i should have probably bought more lol
MDF isn't too bad but I'd stay away from the plywood. Some stores actually do carry decent ply but I find those are hit and miss and vary from region to region.
Wow, you're very responsive. No wonder you have such a big following. Thanks for the reply. I'll check out the website. BTW, until I watched this video I never fully understood how to identify a riftsawn board. So thanks. Now I get it. ;o).
Should you tip the person helping you at the lumber yard? I just got home from lumber shopping and realized I only paid board-foot price, and the guy who worked with me helped me pick out pieces from a huge stack, cut them in half (for transport) and jointed 1 side each with a super spiffy laser guided jointer. I only got to thinking on the drive home that it seemed like a possible tipping situation.
I wished I had seen this video before making myself look like an ass. Thankfully the people at one of the hardwood places were kind enough to help me out.
I remember when I first got started in woodworking, I had a nearly identical experience at the lumber store - minus the cute girl aspect. This video would have been invaluable to me at that time! In your demonstration you briefly mentioned grades of wood, but then never covered it in the video. It would have been nice to include descriptions of S&B, #1COM and so forth as well.
@CVinje2 Hey neighbor! I usually go to Spellman Hardwoods. Good prices and good quality. They have pretty much all the domestics and some exotics like mahogany. And happy holidays to you too!
I've always been fond of imperial measurements, maybe just because I like the dozenal system. Besides, I think pretty much all the sciences work in metric already, and most auto parts are metric (or becoming metric). Pretty much just construction and food that's still on the old system, really. And really, how hard is it to remember that there are 5-1/2 yards to a rod? Simple as can be. The biggest downside is that I have to have wrenches in both systems.
Video number 4, wow Mark. This is really useful. Great stuff. I am currently embarking on a quest to build a house full of Mission style furniture. Can you guess why I am very appreciative?
Im relatively new to woodworking. Ive always worked with pine and decided to step up my game to hardwoods. My closest WoodCraft is about a 4 hr drive away. I went for it just to find out their lumber is ridiculously expensive. There went al my hopes of working with hardwood. I did expect hardwood to be higher in price but WoodCraft is a ripoff. Too bad there no lumber yards near me. Oh well, pine and birch plywood it is.
It's funny hearing you describe a hardwood lumber yard, why are they all basically the same? And all too true about the guys that work in them, i've never seen a happy one!!
holy shite!, imperial is super difficult, metric is so easy, we name the thickness what it is, i dont understand why America is still the only country that uses the imperial system,its so confusing and calculations take longer, i know! BTW im looking back at your first videos Marc, and man youre shop has improved! :)
Hey, great video! I'm sort of new to woodworking at home and wondered if there's any chance that you could do a more up to date version of this video? Thanks!
@TheWoodWhisperer thanks so much for the reply! Good news to hear I don't have to go to Chandler for good lumber. Another question - does Spellman offer rough sawn (RGH, I think it's abbreviated to)?
I've learned a lot with your video, but I wonder how to identify woods by their face finishing. I've heard things like A-B, etc. Hopefully you'd know what I'm talking about and will clear that for me. Thanks.
Just went to the lumber yard for the first time today to get some wood for my final project at school. Headed there with the intention of purchasing rough lumber, but when I got there I realized that its really hard to see the grain pattern through the rough surface. I wanted to get some figured maple, but because I wasn't able to see the pattern in the rough, I settled for a piece of half-decent dressed hardwood. Any tips for picking rough maple with a nice curly pattern on it?
Marc, I live in Surprise and am just starting out woodworking - where is a good source for hardwood / sheet-goods for us Zonies? Love the site, greatly appreciate the videos and all the effort you put forth helping out the newbies!! Happy holidays!!
This is a great video. I show this every semester to my students because it is explained perfectly!
I love so much how you mention forgetting your calculator, since this was made back before everyone had calculators on their person at all times.
Man what a good video. I am 32 and just getting into woodworking. I have always been into tools and things as I am in the trades, but this is a whole new world. I walked into my local Woodcraft, browsed around, got overwhelmed and left haha!! I knew I had to do more research before diving right in lol! Thank you very much for the info!
I watched this video a few months back, and I just watched it again because I'm about to make my first trip to a "Hardwood" dealer. This is great info, and I know it will come in handy tomorrow! Thanks Marc!
This was fantastic. I'm a worry-wort, and am super intimidated about going to the hardwood dealer. I'm committed to developing myself as a woodworker, so I know I need to get over it and start shopping for the good stuff -- this video will help.
WOW! I learned a lot, you saved me some time and money. I like your videos, you are so knowledgable and you don't mind sharing. Nice skit too, your wife did an EXCELLENT job!
14 years later and still a very informative video! Just have to ignore the yellow pages comment 😂
"The day will come when you forget your calculator"
6 months later the first iPhone was launched and no one ever forgot their calculator again.
Don't have an EYE phone, but I do need reading glasses!
Old video but a lot of good info, yellow pages lol, history books
+Dema's WoodShop Do they still make those? lol
+The Wood Whisperer i think they actually do lol...
Dema's WoodShop old comment now
do people still carry calculators either?
Yeah, they're called smartphones :)
The US tried to switch but it was unsuccessful. I guess it's a matter of tradition, habit, and of course businesses incurring expense for having to switch to a new weights and measures system. My background is in biology and chemistry where everything is metric, and I love the system's simplicity. I really wish we could find a way to switch as a nation.
I was in school learning that very thing when Carter tried to impliment that and it was only a half hearted attempt, we learned our system more and since they were teaching both it made learning them kinda hard for me but the metric system was easier.
But hey who doesn't love trying to add and subtract fractions...am I right :P
@@Esophagone:
This is an old subject, but so am I.
When I was in elementary school (60s), they tried to teach us the metric system but they did it Bass Acwards.
They taught it by comparisons and conversions to the American Standard. STU...PID.
The way to teach a new measurement system is to give the student
a tape measure and say "Use it!".
You can't learn this by conversions and comparisons.
Just a bunch of pointless and confusing math.
No one learned a damned thing and then it was dropped.
And it could have been so simple.
I'm late to the game. I'm sure many beginners can relate to your experience at the hard wood dealer. I can!
Thanks for this great info.
I liked the explaination of quarter, rift and flat-sawn lumber and how the wood is expected to expand. Some great tips I really never knew about before...thank you!
Thanks! I remember this video from a long time ago and couldn't remember where I saw it. I found myself in a hardwood dealer for the 1st time today wishing I had rewatched this. Now I'm ready to roll.
Marc, again, you're an excellent educational comedian. Nice work man!
Granted...I'm like...11 years late on viewing this.
Ha, heard you mention the other day about your first videos. I've been watching for maybe 4 or 5 years I guess, maybe a little more, but don't think I've come back this far before, although that "we sell wood" sign looks familiar
It is cool to see how far the channel has come.
I think it would be really awesome if you remade some of these early videos in high definition. These older videos are very helpful but difficult to see in standard def. Great info.
@Chris That's a good idea. By the way here are some great woodworking plans: LionWood.xyz
Thanks Marc. Seeing you wrestling with explaining board feet made me thankful that we went metric all those years ago. When i was a teenager I had a job in a timber merchants office calculating invoices and had to learn about board feet then, i'd forgotten how difficult it is compared to just multiplying millimetres.
I enjoyed this video, got a kick out of the beginning skit, mostly because it was true for me, too. The one difference was the awe I felt looking at all the different types of wood available. Some good information in here.
This helped since I had the same exact feeling/experience when I went to my first lumber yard. No hot girl though. It actually took me a few weeks to walk in to the place for the first time! Thanks for the tips!
Still my favorite after all these years 🤣😜
Hello Marc. Just watched this video. Very well done, funny and informative. You and Steve Ramsey are one of a kind and I enjoy!. Thanks.
After buying so much lumber from the big box stores, I was drawn to this video. This was so informative. I made my way across town to the hardwood dealer and purchased a bunch of 1x6 cypress, S2S, and asked the salesman to calculate the board-foot amount. It was 38.6 bf and the price per bf was $5.85. I looked at the rough stock as well but decided on S2S because it would save a lot of time, as it was already the thickness I wanted. My wife was thinking I would be spending upwards of $400 for this, but the total was $225.81. This plus hardware would make the material cost of each Adirondack chair only $129! Not bad for chairs that will last for many years, even out in the weather. Of course the finish cost will drive up the material cost a little, but I haven't decided on the finish. Thanks for taking the scare factor out of buying better lumber! You really helped me out!
I’m excited about this new channel Mark, it seems like you could be big some day 👍🏼
One of the funnies parts about this video is that the "forget your calculator" comment was way more of an issue at the time this video was made since this video predates the ubiquitous smart phone by about a year.
@islandquilting Thanks for the kind words! Yes all of these videos and more can be found on our website. We also have helpful articles, project posts, shop tours, and an active woodworking forum, as well a live page where you can watch other woodworkers around the world do their thing in their own shops. Pretty cool stuff. You should stop by.
As a newbie, I love your site. Loads of useful info and tips. Thank you and UA-cam too.
Oh boy, I wish I had watched this video before making my first trip to the hardwood dealer.
Thank you SO MUCH for creating and publishing these videos; I am a newbie in woodworking and this is just great . Thanks!
I love your videos. I always learn something, you speak in understandable English, there's always a laugh or two, and you aren't patronizing your viewership. Can all your videos be accessed through your website as well? Thanks a million from a woman woodworker.
Great info-I need to start shopping for some rough lumber for my future projects! I know I'm late to the party but I'm excited to see your woodworking progress throughout all your videos-starting from the beginning!
Bless your damn heart man. 🤣 Thank you for saving me from the overwhelming embarrassment of my first trip. 🤣
Old video or not, it's a great video with a lot of helpful information. Thank you! New subscriber here.
Fantastic and informative info for a novice like myself! I subscribed a while back and your video are really special because you cover the little things that most of the video maker assume I already know. Thanks dude!
So funny. Nailed it. This was exactly my experience.
my head is spinning. I'm going to have to watch this again and take notes.
Your videos are really well done, I watch them all with pleasure. I scour the internet so I can direct my students to the best. Your are one of those! One small point here... Plain sawn is the most common lumber, flat sawn is not offered. You did show a flat sawn board, but most boards include a little bit of quarter, rift and flat, in other words plain sawn.. That is why the lumber is almost always cupped a little.
+Michael Bray thanks Michael! From my experience, plain sawn and flat sawn are simply synonyms. Generally speaking, you should not find rift and quarter sawn stock in a plain sawn pile, though some portions of some boards will contain vertical and angled grain. But they are still flat sawn/plain sawn.
Thanks for the videos. For an amateur I I watched your video's to assist in building my wall unit for my office, and they helped me a lot, especially the ones with finishes and its importance. You should get a kickback from general finishes, because if wasn't for your demonstrations I would have used minwax (which I will never use again)..
This is exactly how it happened to me today (first time to the lumber yard).except for the customer service girl. He wasn’t ugly but.... anyways, Thought I was ready to graduate from HD’s lumber yard but left empty handed. Ugh if only I had thought to check to see if you shot a video about it before hand.
This was really helpful Marc. I’m ready for another go.
That is indeed my wife and no that's not how we met. But that would be a good story. :) I do indeed recommend plywood from a good hardwood dealer. As for quality, I'd first rely on the standard grading system. Usually that's pretty reliable for selecting sheetgoods.
Definitely not a stupid question. The answer is yes. Its not really a functional board when oriented that way. But technically yes, that would be quartersawn.
Great little skit Marc , looks like you were going to bust a move at the end there - like Chad Stanton. ;)
@southelgindad I would check with the hardood store for plywoods as well. For instance, I live in Hawaii and wood is pretty hard to get here sometimes. There too many wood stores on Oahu. Most of the lumber yards store their wood outside and it rains almost daily so it is pretty wet. However, there is a plywood specific store here (Plywood Hawaii) that carries great plywood and hardwoods as well. They offer not only the standard types of ply you would see in a big box store but other kinds as well, such as koa, teak, bamboo, oak, sapele, mahogony ect... They carry each type in 1/4 inch to 1 inch and some up to 1.5 inches. Most of their selection they also offer in prefinished as well, which saves a lot of time in finishing. And the best part, their wood is actually less expensinve then going to Home Depot.
This is a really wonderful video! Thank you, and I learned from you.
@TheSenior53 I never posted those on UA-cam for some reason. Honestly can't even remember why at this point. You can always check them out at my website though.
I did the Smart thing I called them! then was told you buy by the bf not how wide it is! So I went with the flow.
Now I call in ask for 40bf od XXX rough cut walk in pay for it pick it up and split. we don't get to pick out our lumber. Add 10 to 20% for waste.............its wood none of its going to waste, I'll keep the scraps forever!
Great information! Just getting into wood working and your videos are very helpful. Thanks man
Windsor Plywood in Canada or at least my local store is very helpful hardwood shop and is very customer service focused. Their main business is just like you said but they seem unusually focused on accommodating recreational woodworkers. Now my local home hardware.....thats another story.
Yup. Of course there could be some unique circumstances where it would be very useful ( like guitar necks).
Went to my local hardwood yard recently, wasnt sure if i needed to watch this but once i was there im glad i did, it can be overwhelming.
Problem is, i budgeted £60-70 for my wood and it was only £10, half way home i realised i should have probably bought more lol
That is unusual for the UK (treasure Island ) I normally aim to X and end up paying X time 2 or 3.
Best way to find the best materials: move to an area with a significant Amish community.
Fact
this has been extremely informative
MDF isn't too bad but I'd stay away from the plywood. Some stores actually do carry decent ply but I find those are hit and miss and vary from region to region.
@startreking2007 You can actually view those over at our website. Why they aren't on UA-cam is a bit of a long story, lol.
Wow, you're very responsive. No wonder you have such a big following. Thanks for the reply. I'll check out the website. BTW, until I watched this video I never fully understood how to identify a riftsawn board. So thanks. Now I get it. ;o).
Very informative video, really helped me out a lot...... thanks marc
me encantan tus videos,gracias a ellos puedo hacer muchas cosas en mi carpinteria que antes no hubiera sabido hacer graciasssss
Should you tip the person helping you at the lumber yard?
I just got home from lumber shopping and realized I only paid board-foot price, and the guy who worked with me
helped me pick out pieces from a huge stack, cut them in half (for transport) and jointed 1 side each with a super spiffy laser guided jointer.
I only got to thinking on the drive home that it seemed like a possible tipping situation.
I wished I had seen this video before making myself look like an ass. Thankfully the people at one of the hardwood places were kind enough to help me out.
"Video Podcast" I've not heard that term in a while. Yellow pages, classic.
Great video, thank you for your help on this important subject
Just what I needed, thanks.
You are the best~Mark!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Marc that was very useful.
Kathy
Thanks
"Yellow pages" ! haha good old times..
I only use pine 😞 but I got some old wood from a scrap yard
@CVinje2 yup!
An oldie but a goodie. Had to laugh at how many less tattoos you had back then!
I am really glad that we use metric system in Europe, it´s a lot easyer
I remember when I first got started in woodworking, I had a nearly identical experience at the lumber store - minus the cute girl aspect. This video would have been invaluable to me at that time! In your demonstration you briefly mentioned grades of wood, but then never covered it in the video. It would have been nice to include descriptions of S&B, #1COM and so forth as well.
10.5 years ago. Wow!
@CVinje2 Hey neighbor! I usually go to Spellman Hardwoods. Good prices and good quality. They have pretty much all the domestics and some exotics like mahogany. And happy holidays to you too!
Take a look at my Jointer's Jumpin video either here on UA-cam or on my site. It should give you a few ideas.
I wish I would of seen this video before going to a hardwood store. I was completely lost even with the paper on how is priced.
I've always been fond of imperial measurements, maybe just because I like the dozenal system. Besides, I think pretty much all the sciences work in metric already, and most auto parts are metric (or becoming metric). Pretty much just construction and food that's still on the old system, really. And really, how hard is it to remember that there are 5-1/2 yards to a rod? Simple as can be. The biggest downside is that I have to have wrenches in both systems.
Wow, a phone book! I remember those....
Thank you for the video. Very informative.
Video number 4, wow Mark. This is really useful. Great stuff. I am currently embarking on a quest to build a house full of Mission style furniture. Can you guess why I am very appreciative?
calculators and yellow pages. I knew this was old. haha. great info though
Thank you for all the info.
Thanks brother !
well if you can't see it, you can't see it. Perhaps they'll let you take a few passes with a block plane? Never hurts to ask.
Im relatively new to woodworking. Ive always worked with pine and decided to step up my game to hardwoods. My closest WoodCraft is about a 4 hr drive away. I went for it just to find out their lumber is ridiculously expensive. There went al my hopes of working with hardwood. I did expect hardwood to be higher in price but WoodCraft is a ripoff. Too bad there no lumber yards near me. Oh well, pine and birch plywood it is.
You need a TV show!
It's funny hearing you describe a hardwood lumber yard, why are they all basically the same? And all too true about the guys that work in them, i've never seen a happy one!!
All I have near me is "John's lumber" in Michigan. They do sell hardwoods but I have to order them. :-(
holy shite!, imperial is super difficult, metric is so easy, we name the thickness what it is, i dont understand why America is still the only country that uses the imperial system,its so confusing and calculations take longer, i know! BTW im looking back at your first videos Marc, and man youre shop has improved! :)
Hey, great video! I'm sort of new to woodworking at home and wondered if there's any chance that you could do a more up to date version of this video? Thanks!
@TheWoodWhisperer thanks so much for the reply! Good news to hear I don't have to go to Chandler for good lumber. Another question - does Spellman offer rough sawn (RGH, I think it's abbreviated to)?
I've learned a lot with your video, but I wonder how to identify woods by their face finishing. I've heard things like A-B, etc. Hopefully you'd know what I'm talking about and will clear that for me. Thanks.
you are so ahead of your time!
This is what I need. Thank you
This video actually mentioned the yellow pages.
This guy knows what the yellow pages are. 😱
"Lumbering Feeling"
HAH. I see what you did there.
Great video, thank you...........
Just went to the lumber yard for the first time today to get some wood for my final project at school. Headed there with the intention of purchasing rough lumber, but when I got there I realized that its really hard to see the grain pattern through the rough surface. I wanted to get some figured maple, but because I wasn't able to see the pattern in the rough, I settled for a piece of half-decent dressed hardwood. Any tips for picking rough maple with a nice curly pattern on it?
Marc, I live in Surprise and am just starting out woodworking - where is a good source for hardwood / sheet-goods for us Zonies? Love the site, greatly appreciate the videos and all the effort you put forth helping out the newbies!! Happy holidays!!
Ty a lot, much appreciated. great advice 😊👍
Very helpful!
Dang woodchucks, stop chucking that wood!