Good wood around Atlanta?


wtnhighlander

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I'm expecting to make a business trip to the Atlanta area later this fall. Planning to visit Highland Woodworking, just to say I've been there. Can anyone recommend a place ( preferably on the North side, around Alpharetta) where I might pick up a stick or two of something more exotic than red oak or walnut? Where I live, red oak abounds, anything else and the pickings are slim.

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The tater is right ! Carleton was a great old guy and Richard ( the current owner) was his right hand man! There is almost no organization to the place but Richard knows what he has and roughly where it is. This is a place that a real craftsman can spend hours drooling over wood you know you want but have no specific project to justify spending the $$, until the day the project pops up! That is when I call Richard and we put together a deal that works for both of us!

Give me a buzz when your in town, my shop is only 10- 15 minutes away !

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I went to that place three years ago with my uncle. We were in there for a few hours, and I purchased the woods that we built a new neck for my 7 string guitar. The place is jam packed with wood and veneers. You really have to look or else you'll miss a ton of stuff. Theres a luthier school over there, Atlanta Guitar Works. Every new semester, the school brings the students to that place to pick their materials for the guitars they will be building. 

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And how do you figure this is off topic ? Visiting rare wood vendors and tool merchants out of town is hard core craftsman behavior. You should have seen the looks I got in Hawaii when everyone else went to the beach and I went to visit a millwork shop for Koa scraps !

Wrapped it up in cardboard and checked it as an extra bag !

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