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I did today. Got a 1 X 8 X 10 curly maple board.

Also some quartersawn mahogany.

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Phillip Patton

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Great!

I occasionally find treasure at big home store sorts of places..... It is a lot of looking and only a little finding....

Most of my bracewood has come in the form of dimensional lumber....

The Oakie's Quartersawn Red Oak back, sides, and neck all came from home store lumber...

Thanks

Menards in Duluth Mn seems to have all kinds of hardwoods...I snagged a 6' foot, 1/2 by4, curly, no knots, almost 1/4 sawn for 12 bucks on sale. I could get 3 necks, or a couple nice side sets resawed.

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Jason Moe
LaCrosse WI 54601

These tops are western red cedar and 'mahogany' on the right from Menards in Massilon OH.


Here are some shots of what they are turning into...






A couple Weissenborn style instruments. Both WRC tops. One sycamore I picked up from local guy with land and a portable saw mill and the other Menards 'mahogany' (the sides are in the form in the last image).

Not bad for ~$40 in wood. With leftovers to make a few ukuleles! Now I just have to finish them...

_Mike

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_Mike Tracz
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I followed your lead and scored some mahogany neck material last summer, myself.
Had to sort through the rack for the desirable stuff and got lots of sideways looks from the employees.
It has been a hit and miss sort of thing, but there are treasures everywhere, even the BORG.
Coe Franklin

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Not wood but at Lowe's I found a motherload of 3/4", heavy duty steel, Ceiling Fan down rod extensions for a few dollars each on clearance... NPT thread, nice brass and stainless finish. They make beautiful pipe clamps. Much lighter than black iron pipe.

At Home depot here you can usually find curly maple, sometimes culry oak .. once a few years back - guitars 4 and 6 I think, were made from a 8 foot 1x6 of quartered and wildly curly walnut from a HD ...

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Tony Karol
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Yikes Tony. Wish my local HD had walnut.

Decent hardwood seems to have disappeared from any of the local HD's (no maple anymore), but I do have to say that, if you have any near future needs for 3/4 ply, check out whether your local has any of the birch ply coming out of Chile. Ours is selling it for about $27 US a sheet. It isn't as perfect as baltic, and has (very limited) voids, but if I had the budget and the room, I'd buy a pallet of it today.

Off and on, our Woodcraft does well on hardwoods. I have 15 or 16 back and side sets from Bubinga and Padauk boards bought there.

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Jim Kirby
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