Project by John Cobb | posted 01-19-2014 05:44 PM | 3525 views | 6 times favorited | 10 comments | ![]() |
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Just a few cutting boards I made to get my stock up. I’ve started putting my stuff in a store so I needed to build up my inventory. These are all roughly 12” x 8” x 3/4” in size. The woods I used include maple, walnut, cherry, jatoba, padauk, and purple heart. Nice easy long grain boards that can be whipped out pretty quickly.
-- John Cobb
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deon
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#1 posted 01-19-2014 06:43 PM
I like the last two more
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#2 posted 01-19-2014 07:44 PM
I like the style…
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#3 posted 01-19-2014 10:46 PM
Those are very nice boards. Mind if I ask what price you will be asking for them?
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#4 posted 01-19-2014 11:28 PM
I’ve been asking $20 plus $5 for shipping if I sell them off my site
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#5 posted 01-19-2014 11:30 PM
Boy that seems like a very low selling price…what price do the go for in the store you sell to?
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#6 posted 01-19-2014 11:39 PM
It is pretty low but I’ve found that in my area people just don’t pay for stuff. They would rather just go buy something from Wal-Mart for $3. It stinks but unfortunately I think that $20 is about all I’m going to be able to get for them. I tried selling them for $40 and only sold one over a good bit of time and I had come up with some extravagant designs. Since that didn’t work out I went to a bit simpler designs and lower price. In the store I have them for $20 and the store gets 3%. I’ve found that if I use more of the “cheaper” woods (ex. Maple) and use smaller pieces of the high dollar exotic stuff that I can make them for fairly cheap
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#7 posted 01-20-2014 09:08 AM
I don’t know where you live but you might check for a saw mill in your area. I buy a lot of my wood from a mill about 40 miles away. They have woods like Mesquite, Red Cedar, Sassafras, Bois D’Arc, Walnut, Cypress and several kinds of Maples. All woods are usually available in 4/4” and 8/4” and about 1/2 the price of what Home Depot sells their Oak and Poplar for. He also gives me some First Cut boards that I get some nice stuff from. I can drive up there, sort through the boards and for $200 I load my Suburban. It is like a toy store for wood workers. This really cuts down on the cost of lumber.
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#8 posted 01-20-2014 06:57 PM
I would love to visit a saw mill like you are talking about OldWrangler. I have one logger friend here on the Island that will sell to me at wholesale prices, but because he is logging Koa, Monkey Pod and Mango, they all cost allot.
-- Larry in Hawaii,
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#9 posted 01-20-2014 09:13 PM
I wouldn’t say ’’just’’.They are great.
-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted
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#10 posted 01-21-2014 12:14 AM
I have a mill I go to but they are still fairly high on the exotics. As far as maple, oak, ash, beech, and the more readily available stuff they are pretty reasonable. I agree it definitely pays to find a mill home depot and other retail places upcharge like crazy and they’re lumber is normally not as good a quality.
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