Subject: Q: San Diego woodworking

From: Skye Sweeney <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 08:49:56 -0500

Going to San Diego for a week starting 2/17. Are there any
interesting stores or wood yards in the area?

What is the native wood that I might consider buying?

Respond by ng or email.

Thanks.

-Skye Sweeney

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From: Peter Tobias <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 10:54:07 -0800

> What is the native wood that I might consider buying?

The two stores that are particularly interesting to me are The 
Woodworker's Store on Clairemont Mesa Blvd. in San Diego and Cut and 
Dried Hardwoods on Cedros Ave. in Solana Beach. Next to Cut and Dried is 
an antiques mall kind of store where I have gotten some ideas for things 
to make. Native woods here are sycamore, oak and various pines. I'm not 
aware that anyone cuts them for lumber. There is a tremendous amount of 
Eucalyptus grown here. Rumor is that it was planted by the Santa Fe 
railroad for ties, but they didn't do their homework and it is a very 
splitty, very hard wood of no use whatsoever for railroad ties. It does 
grow like crazy here, so it is used a lot for landscaping. There are many 
varieties of Eucalyptus, but I don't know which, if any, are good for 
lumber. 

P. Tobias