Sweeeeeeeeeetttt So whats your address now ? I see a trip in my future !
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| Author: | Chris Oliver [ Tue Jan 03, 2012 8:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Be good to your Sawyer... |
... and maybe he'll be good to you. 180 bd. ft. qtrd. curly sugar maple. Attachment: 2012-01-03_18-37-09_242-1.jpg
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| Author: | Darryl Young [ Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Be good to your Sawyer... |
Good score! |
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| Author: | WudWerkr [ Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Be good to your Sawyer... |
Sweeeeeeeeeetttt So whats your address now ? I see a trip in my future !
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| Author: | Chris Oliver [ Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Be good to your Sawyer... |
WudWerkr wrote: Sweeeeeeeeeetttt So whats your address now ? I see a trip in my future ! No kidding, I'm probably going to have to part with some of this.... blew my budget on day three! It's going to be a long year.... |
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| Author: | Jim_H [ Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Be good to your Sawyer... |
before you can be good to your sawyer, you have to *have* a sawyer! I guess I'll check the phonebook tomorrow :p (nice score!) |
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| Author: | Chris Oliver [ Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Be good to your Sawyer... |
Jim_H wrote: before you can be good to your sawyer, you have to *have* a sawyer! I guess I'll check the phonebook tomorrow :p (nice score!) JH, True indeed! My relationship with my sawyer started about 12 years ago. I was doing custom woodworking (one off furniture, chests, antique repair, etc.). I needed a good source of local lumber, and, I wanted to be able to pick through it when I needed some with specific grain/color characteristics, and, I didn't want to pay too much for it. You can see how needy I was in that run on sentence. I found sawyers (not listed under sawyer but 'lumber for sale' and such) in my local trader classifieds. I started visiting them and picking through their stock. After a couple years of doing this (one was even 3 hours round trip), I got to liking one feller that was local. He was a trim carpenter by trade and did the sawing/drying/sorting/grading/selling on the side as a hobby. He never had a lot of lumber, but, he had good prices, was available in the evenings a lot and just an all around genuine guy. I would visit him often and even though I might only purchase a couple boards we would shoot the bull for another hour or so. I even took over some sycamore and hedge that we quartered together on his old saw. Attachment: Ralph - Osage Orange 2005.jpg I began requesting that he keep his eye out for figured logs and when he busted one open that if he noticed the figure, to quarter saw a few 6/4 pieces for me. He would mostly forget, but even when you flatsaw a whole log you will get some boards with perfect and near perfect quarter. When he remembers, he gives me a call as he is taking lumber out of the kiln so I can look over the pieces that might be of use to me. Recently he brought some black walnut out of the kiln and forgot to call me. I just happened to call him to see if he had gotten it out yet and he said "yeah, there's a guy here from out of town buying it all up right now". I rushed over and got a few pieces before it was all gone. The figure you see in my other thread on the Celtic couple is pretty light compared to what the out of towner had already put in his truck (he's going to build stairs to his basement with some super curly walnut  ).Anyway, he's been sittin' on this curly maple for a few years and finally offered it to me. I, of course, obliged and bought it all up. Even though most of was roughsawn at 5/4, buying the whole log allows me to find those book-matched brother planks and put them back together. Start building a relationship with a sawyer today. I found that the guys doing it full-time with a building and a lot of other overhead were less interested in helping with my cause. They were after quantity sales and getting done by 5 pm.. Find out who your local custom woodworkers use. They guys who buy figured wood from local sawyers, not woodcraft and rockler. Otherwise, there are a lot of choices who advertise on this forum and you typically don't have to do much in the way of processing. I build all mine from scratch (resawing back/sides/top(sitka only), making bridges, fretboards, necks, etc.), so this is just part of the process for me. Good Luck! |
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| Author: | Chris Oliver [ Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Be good to your Sawyer... |
For you others with WAS like me, here is a little sugar maple eye candy.... Attachment: Ralph-curlyMaple-1-3-2012.jpg
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| Author: | Jim_H [ Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Be good to your Sawyer... |
See, now you're just bein' mean :p |
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| Author: | Chris Oliver [ Wed Jan 04, 2012 5:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Be good to your Sawyer... |
Jim_H wrote: See, now you're just bein' mean :p 
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