This has been a week of wood acquisition.  I’ve got a lifelong friend (over 55 years) and we swap with each other.  He’s doing a home renovation for a local family and needed some Baltic birch plywood to finish the job so I gave him a sheet of 3/4” that I had in the garage.  In return I got two pieces of spalted maple.  They’re about 80 inches long, 20 inches wide and one is 6/4 and one 8/4.  They’re a little wet at 12% but will soon dry.  Wednesday I drive over to my go to hardwood dealer with a friend and bought about 130 bf of hard maple.  He’s building treads and risers.  While I was there I ran across a bunk of Pennsylvania cherry on special for $3 a bf.  The board were 74” long of varying widths.  I walked away with 9 boards, all being over 9” wide.  Not a bad week.

I would envy all that but my shop is full of wood , Now I have got to get busy using some of it. That cherry sounds like sawmill price.

Nice haul!!

all together now:  "i'm a lumberjack and i'm ok, i sleep all night and I work all day...."

 

nice stash.

3 hours ago, DAB said:

all together now:  "i'm a lumberjack and i'm ok, i sleep all night and I work all day...."

 

nice stash.

As long as you don't put on women's clothing and hang around in bars 

 

@Ron Dudelston goona have to change your name to "The Bandit"!

well....

 

on Wednesdays I go shopping....

Nice looking stock Ron, what are you planning for them?

14 hours ago, lew said:

As long as you don't put on women's clothing and hang around in bars. 

...

5 hours ago, Cal said:

Nice looking stock Ron, what are you planning for them?

Cal, I have an Etsy store and my biggest seller is an 8 1/2” x 8 1/2” waffle trivet. I’ll make about 30 to 40 of them at a time.  These boards are future trivets.

i couldn't imagine making 30-40 of anything.  not all at once, not over time.

 

want to show the class the trivet?

19 minutes ago, DAB said:

i couldn't imagine making 30-40 of anything.  not all at once, not over time.

I am with ya on that.  Did pens for a few years and made 200 over the course of a years time.  Sit down and do a run of 20+,  never going to happen.  These days I am lucky if I bother to make 4-5 a year, even that would be rare.  The lathe gets used just not for that much. 

56 minutes ago, Gunny said:

I am with ya on that.  Did pens for a few years and made 200 over the course of a years time.  Sit down and do a run of 20+,  never going to happen.  These days I am lucky if I bother to make 4-5 a year, even that would be rare.  The lathe gets used just not for that much. 

i've made a mess of cutting boards, bowls, picture frames for my wife, but rarely the same design twice.  that seems like production work.  the whole point of retirement is to NOT do production work.  it's to do what I want to do, whether it's for our own use, or for someone else to enjoy.  some things i've sold, others i've given away (i think i've given away more work than i've sold, I just finished a desk and printer table set for a friend, she bought the lumber and glides, i designed and built it).  I like the challenge of solving a new problem now and then.

 

i've read other's accounts of their making multiple copies of the same thing, then dragging the whole mess to the craft fair, and spending 2 days haggling over prices or quality, and getting to pay a table fee for the fun of that.  no thanks.

 

or like mentioned above, setting up an Etsy or Ebay account.  again, pass.

Nice score on the spalted maple ! That’s the kind of stuff I set aside and eventually a project will come to mind. 
Paul

I love that spaulted maple!