Subject: Wood by mail

From: [email-masked] (Erik Pedersen)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 06:59:54 -0800

The mail order mills sometimes have some pretty great deals on hardwoods.
Anybody have much experience with mail order wood. Good luck, bad luck?
Thanks

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From: [email-masked] (John Paquay)
Date: 13 Feb 1997 18:39:30 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] says...
>Anybody have much experience with mail order wood. Good luck, bad luck?

I've had good luck with mail-order mills, but the UPS shipping cost usually
makes up for any great bargain in the price of the lumber...

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Manhart)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:06:47 -0600

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (John

> makes up for any great bargain in the price of the lumber...

I have had good luck too.  I had some 16/4 rough sawn butternet shipped to
Texas from Haus of Hardwoods in Washington and it ended up being less than
$4.00/bd-ft. with shipping.  This is a good price considering that I could
not find much butternut locally and quantities of 16/4 would be out of the
question.   However, it has to be a really good sale price or something
that you can't get locally to make it worthwhile.  The other advantage is
that it gives the UPS guy a good workout.

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From: Paul Worth <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:05:38 -0500

> makes up for any great bargain in the price of the lumber...
I just received my first order of mail-order wood this week and I'm
happy
with it.  I ordered a "Babe Value Pack" of black walnut from Blue Ox
Hardwoods (http://www.blueoxhardwoods.com).  They ship free to most
of the eastern half of the US and $0.50 per board foot for western 
states.  I haven't actually measured the value pack to see what it
costs per board foot (it's 50 pounds) but it's exactly what I was
looking for and I'm happy with the price.  Your mileage may vary.
I'll be shopping with them again.

-=Paul Worth=-
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From: Brian Christoff <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:00:34 -0500

> Anybody have much experience with mail order wood. Good luck, bad luck?

I have been happy with my mail order wood products.  Some mail order
wood sources include shipping in the per board price which can be
benefiical depending on quantity

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