Best RECLAIMED WOOD SOURCE in your area?

[Dustin Sliger]

Hi...looking for best reclaimed wood resources by state. Can you recommend the best resource in your area to help with my list?

[Tom King]

I had to bury a horse a few weeks ago.  I'm not anxious to do another burial, so sorry, but I can't tell.

[Gixxerjoe04]

craigslist, all 50 states

[Unknown craftsman]

7 hours ago, Dustin Sliger said:

Hi...looking for best reclaimed wood resources by state. Can you recommend the best resource in your area to help with my list?

Sure if you can answer this riddle correctly.

Three frogs are sitting on a log one decides to jump in how many frogs are on the log?

[Dustin Sliger]

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12 hours ago, Tom King said:

I had to bury a horse a few weeks ago.  I'm not anxious to do another burial, so sorry, but I can't tell.

Thanks for the info Tom. Sorry to hear about the horse. We just lost one that had been with us for 30 years.

10 hours ago, Aj3 said:

Sure if you can answer this riddle correctly.

Three frogs are sitting on a log one decides to jump in how many frogs are on the log?

3

[bleedinblue]

1 hour ago, Mike. said:

I hear upick hardwoods in St Louis has a good selection, right @Eric.

http://www.upickhardwoodlumber.com/

But you have to go on the weekends and ask to speak with Eric.  He loves the reclaimed stuff.  Loves.  It.

[Unknown craftsman]

@Dustin Sliger. 

Correct

My latest score for reclaimed wood was from interior doors.

In the past I just grab it from remodel jobs I sometimes work at.If one knows what to look for some great wood can be had.

[Eric.]

Yeah come ask me for some and I'll open a reclaimed can of whoop ass on you.

No, we don't have any.  Craig has a barn up in northern MO that he's taking apart bit by bit, so there is a tiny trickle of it from time to time.  But you better have really good luck if you expect to get your hands on any, because it flies out of there the day it arrives...at ridiculous prices.  I don't understand people.

[weithman5]

your pictures don't show up, I coulda made a quick road trip

[Tom King]

I think you guys are talking about something different than the "reclaimed" wood I use most every day.  I was thinking about this fine grained Heart Pine that was reclaimed out of early 19th Century beams.  This is what I recognize as "reclaimed".  The fine grained, quarter-sawn, with no knots or nail holes is hard to come by.  There's about $75 worth in each sash, and that was several years ago.  They were for an 18th Century museum house that was never painted on the inside except for one room, and the original paint is still in that one room.  If they had been painted, there would have not been a great reason to use this wood, which is the same as the rest of the house was made from.

Notice boxes of pencils sitting on top of the old wainscoting.  Funny how they accumulate.

By the way, every joint at every intersection of these sash is a hand fitted mortise and tenon.  They will be pegged at the next stage after this picture was taken, and no glue used.