Curly Maple

[JamesDad]

Picture of the curly maple

Here is a picture of the curly maple. This picture is courtesy of my wife Lisa who is the family computer wizard [everybody should have one of those]. As for the finish, it is a straight fairly rough cut on one edge and surfaced on both sides. Overall quality: some has more figure than others, most have little if any tear out, but a few boards have several spots of tear out. They will let you pick through the wood. They cater a lot to woodworkers and hobbyists. They said a lot of people buy this figured wood for guitar making. I think the normal price is somewhere between 4 and 4.5 dollars but I'm not sure. When I saw a buck and a quarter I didn't care how much they sold it for normally. All the wood I saw was straight and flat with no sap wood. Widths range from 3" to about 10". I saw lengths from 5 feet to 10 feet and a few even longer than that. The guy there told me they had approximately 30,000 board feet, but at that price even that much may not last long.

[Crash2510]

a morgage on the house might be in order

buy buy buy buy buy buy

[lrr]

At that price, I'm tempted to do a road trip ...

I bought curly maple at Rockler's in Denver last year, on sales for ~ $5 a bd/ft. It was $8 or more normally, as I recall.

[Jeffrey Schronce]

Man! My Dad just had back surgery and cant get down there.
That is a KILLER deal! Whos gonna help me out here? Can we organize a distribution system guys?

[gwyneth]

Maybe instead of flowers, they could send some to the hospital room?

[Jeffrey Schronce]

Maybe instead of flowers, they could send some to the hospital room?

Couple hundred bf and a few card scrapers and I could pass the time!

[Otter]

I am going today at lunch to grab 40 or 50 BF. thanks for the post

[tohellwithuga]

Here is my loot. What do you think? Got all this for under $50 (does 3/4" count as 1" for the BF calculation, i.e. can I just do (w*l)/144?)

I'm not sure where these boards rate on the "curliness" scale, but I was able to pick up some pretty wide pieces. Some of them look bad on one side, but they all have at least 1 (mostly) good side. I was pretty disappointed when I first got there, it was mostly picked through - but then they showed up with another pallet, which I helped unload

Thanks to everyone for your help, and thanks to Paul who was also there looking at the curly maple (and a Georgia Tech grad too), for helping me out!

[Kerf]

Man!
At that price is almost unreal!!

I just bought a few weeks ago some hard maple, I paid About 1.50 bd, but is not fgured.
If I had that available to me I would buy as much as I Could.

[gwyneth]

Couple hundred bf and a few card scrapers and I could pass the time!

Every time I think of people carrying in boards and the nurses trying to rearrange them--like flowers but of course on a somewhat bigger scale--I crack up.

[Otter]

Here is my loot. What do you think? Got all this for under $50 (does 3/4" count as 1" for the BF calculation, i.e. can I just do (w*l)/144?)

I'm not sure where these boards rate on the "curliness" scale, but I was able to pick up some pretty wide pieces. Some of them look bad on one side, but they all have at least 1 (mostly) good side. I was pretty disappointed when I first got there, it was mostly picked through - but then they showed up with another pallet, which I helped unload

Thanks to everyone for your help, and thanks to Paul who was also there looking at the curly maple (and a Georgia Tech grad too), for helping me out!

I bet I just missed you. The guy in there siad he just reloaded the slot, i got 51bf for 63 plus change and it looks great. I got a few with a bad sid but all wood things have a inside, i am happy.

[tohellwithuga]

Otter, did you look at any of the wood in the 50% off "shed"? I was in a hurry and wasn't able to look through it. Just wondering if there was anything decent in there, you know, in case I'm in the area again soon

[Jeffrey Schronce]

Here is my loot. What do you think? Got all this for under $50 (does 3/4" count as 1" for the BF calculation, i.e. can I just do (w*l)/144?)

I think that Hearne Hardwood here in PA would charge $50 for one of those boards. I would call it at least a medium figure. Very nice and a great score. Man I wish I wasn't having surgery tomorrow, I'd find someway to get a hold of 500 bf of this stuff.

Yes, 3/4" S3S would be calculated the same as 4/4 (ie 1" rough).

[tribalwind]

fantastic'
cant hardly get pine for that in long island lol...
i'd call them up and see if they will ship ground freight or ups/fedex


i have a great source for african mahogany here so ive used alot of that... $1.00-$1.50 bdft.

[phrog]

Mahogany

fantastic'
cant hardly get pine for that in long island lol...
i'd call them up and see if they will ship ground freight or ups/fedex


i have a great source for african mahogany here so ive used alot of that... $1.00-$1.50 bdft.

Did I hear someone say "mahogany?" for a buck-fifty a bf. And curly maple for a buck-twenty-five? Have I gone back in time?
Richard