Just a few cutting boards

I like the last two more

-- Dreaming patterns

I like the style…

-- Be safe.

Those are very nice boards. Mind if I ask what price you will be asking for them?

-- Larry in Hawaii,

I’ve been asking $20 plus $5 for shipping if I sell them off my site

-- John Cobb

Boy that seems like a very low selling price…what price do the go for in the store you sell to?

-- Larry in Hawaii,

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

-- John Cobb

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.

-- I am going to go stand outside so if anyone asks about me, tell them I'M OUTSTANDING!

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,

I wouldn’t say ’’just’’.They are great.

-- Ivan, Croatia, Wooddicted

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.

-- John Cobb