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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Materials
By:Kudzu
Date: 6/4/2008, 12:43 pm
In Response To: Skin-on-Frame: Materials (Chris Noel)

I am up against the same thing here. I can get hardwoods but not much else. The "Traditional" places as you called them are useless, here at least. But the old school building suppliers are not much better either. I have one I have free run of and and I can hand pick, but there isn't much to hand pick from!

My best bet is redwood and cypress. I can find redwood at some of the building supplies. Cypress is carried by most of the hardwood dealers. The Hardwood guys cater to cabinet makers and a few furniture makers generally. So you and I are out of their area of expertise.

Best bet is call and see if they have any of the wood(s) you want and then go look.

I have settled on buying the best I can find and then resawing it and scarfing it into longer lengths. There just isn't much other choice frankly. I am going to build an improved scarfing jig for the table saw. I will post some photos once I get it done.

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Skin-on-Frame: Materials
Chris Noel -- 6/4/2008, 7:33 am
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Charlie -- 6/8/2008, 9:13 pm
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Pozamua -- 6/4/2008, 2:45 pm
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Kudzu -- 6/4/2008, 12:43 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/5/2008, 9:43 am
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Bill Hamm -- 6/4/2008, 2:15 pm
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Kudzu -- 6/4/2008, 2:20 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/4/2008, 2:27 pm
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Kudzu -- 6/4/2008, 3:06 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/5/2008, 9:40 am
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Dan Mouw -- 6/4/2008, 7:35 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 6/5/2008, 9:38 am
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