wood hoarders

[myxpykalix]

Watch this and admit to yourselves, if anything he says doesn't sound like something you've said!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSaSHVPtlrU

maybe we should have a contest with pictures to find which one of us is the biggest hoarder....:eek:

[scottp55]

Yup! He definitely has a problem. I'd gladly relieve him of his "Problem Children", and put them with the very interesting shaped scraps my Desktop keeps making. Eventually I'll have enough scraps to make a "scrap" bin, instead of using 2 trash cans plus short's on top of my longs, and tucked into the nooks and crannies, and shelf space in the shop and house.:)

[harryball]

The way I see it, it's not scrap, it's parts I just don't know where they go yet.

/RB

[Ajcoholic]

Here's my hoard...

That's not including my 100+ sheets of plywoods or my really good stach of wood I keep inside the shop. :)

AJC

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j307/ajcoholic/IMG_2191_zps474af211.jpg (http://s83.photobucket.com/user/ajcoholic/media/IMG_2191_zps474af211.jpg.html)

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(for those who might be interested, I have the following woods in stock... most in 4/4, 6/4 and 8/4 thickness'

Red oak
White oak
birch
Hard maple
Soft maple
basswood
American poplar
white pine
Western red cedar
butternut
Black walnut
Cherry
African Mahogany
White Ash
Sapele
Red Alder

Plus some Pau ferro, wenge, white limba, ebony, Swiss pear, redwood, and more! Ha ha ha... I love hoarding wood!

[tri4sale]

Here's my hoard...

That's not including my 100+ sheets of plywoods or my really good stach of wood I keep inside the shop. :)



You've got a better selection then my local wood shops do!!

[myxpykalix]

here is about half of the "outside pile". Oak on the bottom, walnut in the center, poplar on the top. There is another stack around back of some pine. The stack of cherry and european steamed beech is on shelves inside the shop.

[Simops]

Hey Andrew......you sure you didn't just take a pic from a local timber yard:p

[scottp55]

Can't be Michael, It's better organized and more accessible than my local shop:)
Jack, I'd be more than happy to alleviate your problem(if I had room to put it) :)

[genek]

What do you guys do buy wood to look at. The wood I get in is used that week. With the scraps placed for sale.

I can go through 150 bft of lumber in a week.
I plan out my week or months work and order what I need.

[scottp55]

Now-- How come I knew you'd say that Eugene? :)

[Ajcoholic]

What do you guys do buy wood to look at. The wood I get in is used that week. With the scraps placed for sale.

I can go through 150 bft of lumber in a week.
I plan out my week or months work and order what I need.

Eugene,
I tend to buy wood in at least 200 to 500 board feet mini lifts at a time. I plan my work in blocks of 3 or 4 months - and then make sure I have everything here before I start. But, I also look for deals, and if the price is trending up on species I use regularly (like recently maple and walnut) I order a full lift. I got in almost 1000 bf of hard maple a few months ago. Ill burn through that before the end of the year.

Some stuff like Butternut, is just plain hard to get so I keep a few hundred feet in stock.

I can get most species within a week. But some take 2 to 3 weeks for my supplier to get and then get to me. So I stock a lot of my own wood to have easy and immediate access.

ALso, in the winter months, I have to bring the lumber inside the heated shop for 2 to 3 weeks to aclimatize.

Furniture making is not something where I would buy lumber off the truck and immediately turn into product. Even in the summer I let it sit in the shop for a while to get aclimatized.

[Ajcoholic]

Hey Andrew......you sure you didn't just take a pic from a local timber yard:p

I live in a city/town of 50,000. I know for a fact no one has a variety of lumber as I do! :)

Several lumber yards, but besides pine, spruce and some cedar you are out of luck with them.

[Simops]

Hey Andrew.....you could probably open up your timber yard to sell to woodworkers some of the hard to get stuff that's not readily available at the local timber yard......i was up on the Cairns Tablelands (cairns is in Tropical North Queensland) and visited a high-end furniture maker- Artist's studio and he had a section in his gallery stocked with the woods (some beautiful exotic stuff) that he uses for sale as well. Most looked like off-cuts.....getting something for it then throwing away!!!


Cheers

[Ajcoholic]

Just remembered finally to take some inside photos...

Here are my "shorts, off cuts and some special planks of thicker stuff 3" and 4", my stach of curly maple, etc"

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j307/ajcoholic/IMG_2212_zpsb6c54ab0.jpg (http://s83.photobucket.com/user/ajcoholic/media/IMG_2212_zpsb6c54ab0.jpg.html)

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We were just breaking for lunch... that is my summer student. He usually eats on the radial arm saw.

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[Ajcoholic]

One more... another rack of stuff - dry western red cedar and white pine. My soft wood stash :D

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j307/ajcoholic/IMG_2199_zps0a3a78b5.jpg (http://s83.photobucket.com/user/ajcoholic/media/IMG_2199_zps0a3a78b5.jpg.html)

and some sheet stock...

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j307/ajcoholic/IMG_2198_zps266c17a7.jpg (http://s83.photobucket.com/user/ajcoholic/media/IMG_2198_zps266c17a7.jpg.html)

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[scottp55]

Andrew, Close your eyes!:)

[scottp55]

Embarrassing:) It's everywhere.

[genek]

Eugene,
I tend to buy wood in at least 200 to 500 board feet mini lifts at a time. I plan my work in blocks of 3 or 4 months - and then make sure I have everything here before I start. But, I also look for deals, and if the price is trending up on species I use regularly (like recently maple and walnut) I order a full lift. I got in almost 1000 bf of hard maple a few months ago. Ill burn through that before the end of the year.

Some stuff like Butternut, is just plain hard to get so I keep a few hundred feet in stock.

I can get most species within a week. But some take 2 to 3 weeks for my supplier to get and then get to me. So I stock a lot of my own wood to have easy and immediate access.

ALso, in the winter months, I have to bring the lumber inside the heated shop for 2 to 3 weeks to aclimatize.

Furniture making is not something where I would buy lumber off the truck and immediately turn into product. Even in the summer I let it sit in the shop for a while to get aclimatized.
Andrew you are not a hoarder, Hoarders have every piece of wood. the only thing they throw out is the saw dust and then most are trying to find a way to use or save that. lol...

I have wood set back or saved up also... Where I have been running high production runs to get ready for the Kentucky State Fair, My shop is over run with pieces of wood that I would normally glue up to make cutting boards or chop up for pen turners to use. Most of my products that I make I do not have to let the wood acclimatize to the shop. I am just as bad as the next to bet wood in the shop and hang onto it... I always go through the lumber mill''s cut off bins to see how much wood I can find to make small projects out of.

[shilala]

Scott, if I walked in your shop I'd have to tie you in the corner while I spent a week cleaning it and making shelves. :)
I have a 3'x3'x1 1/2' space where I keep scrap. It's a shelf. I only keep enough that I don't need to cut up a board to make shims or jigs or spacers or whatever. I used to keep a garbage can, but it sucked standing on my head looking for what I needed.

I keep 3-'-4' shorts on a high shelf, lots of species, just so I can make a quick panel for whatever I want to do. I have the most awesome Amish sawmill right handy, everything looks like Andrew's shop, it's heated all winter, and I can get what I need any day but Sunday at a great price. I sort of think of his place as my wood pile. :D

[scottp55]

Scott, love to have you build shelves provided you remember anything above 5 feet is inaccessible to me:) I'd love have someone in just for a day to move everything into drive, sort and organize and replace in orderly fashion. Birdseye on rafters and all my 6/4 cherry in loft is totally unreachable and sheetgoods are vertical behind the 12-16's. It didn't start out that way, but after 3 different crews of carpenters moving stuff wherever, it's what I've got.
P.S. You don't have to tie me in a corner, Just let the air out of my tires:)

[tri4sale]

Embarrassing:) It's everywhere.

In that first picture my first thought was "OMG look at that huge snake!!!"

[scottp55]

Yep, Snake was carved for me from cypress root/hurricane deadfall in '98 by a chainsaw carver who lost his house and was staying at at some motel in Swansville,NC some friends at the time owned. He was behind on his bill so I bought a bunch of his stuff and made the check out to David and Kaye who owned the motel :) You should have seen his face!
It's lived in a maple in front yard "snaking"around the lower branches with a wind chime in his mouth--Always freaked people out at first(and then they loved it). It was originally the orange of some kind of weird stain. It actually deformed the maple, as the maple grew the center of snake wound up in the crotch of the tree and the moisture caused dry rot.
I'm going to refinish(always wanted to stick an apple in it's mouth), saw out rot, and have the tail entering something and the head sticking out!
Thought of my mailbox, but Mail Lady hates me enough as it is---so thought This Tree? 50' from back door :)
Good eye. Some of my "Junk" I should burn :(
Funny how some wood has a story.
Eugene, Spread Black Walnut sawdust where you don't want weeds and carpenter ants to go:)

[Burkhardt]

Embarrassing:) It's everywhere.

Don't feel bad, you should see my garage/shop. One fine day when I feel like cleaning up instead of working on something (or when I don't find anything anymore) I will post a pic.

This is a regular detached double garage and contains:
- The CNC (55x48")
- 2 work benches
- 2 drawer cabinets, about 70"x30"
- couple sheets of plywood and sheet metal
- oscillating belt sander and grinder on a cart
- 16/32" drum sander and 13" planer on a cart
- floor mounted drill press
- 20 gal compressor
- dust collector on trash can with casters
- 12" miter saw
- General wood lathe (12" swing x 40" work length)
- 14" band saw
- Refrigerator
- washer and dryer
- 2 large wall cabinets
- cart with MIG welder
- cart with turning tools and blanks

I thought for a long time I could not add more tools but I found a new nesting order and just added nice mid-size table saw with 57" x 32" footprint.

I still have a narrow path to the washing machine and refrigerator but you can imagine that all power tools are on casters because I have to move it out into the driveway to use (except the CNC). I don't have too much lumber for obvious reasons but most of that is now stored in my racecar trailer. I don't go much to the track anymore.

When I retire I will move from SoCal to a place where I can afford a real shop and make as much noise as I like.