Hardwood dealers!

Generally, if you can find one, independent dealers or sawmills will have a better price on hardwood but here are two that can find dealers in your area:

Craigslist.com
Woodfinder.com

Other sources inclued Ebay. A fellow LJ, Barlow offers hardwood for sale as well.

Hope this helps.

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Woodweb might be another possible source….

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Try the state Forester for your area. They usually know sawmills in their area, because they are not usually advertised. Also try calling Woodmizer and asking for owners in your area that custom cut and have wood for sale. I’ve seen it around here for 1.00 a bd ft, usually green but if you buy enough and then store it you can keep ahead of the use curve. Some of them also have kilns. A new member to our woodworkers club has a Woodmizer and kiln. I don’t know of his lumber prices though.

A 100.00 purchase will get you a lot of wood. What you’d pay for about 6-7 boards at the big boys box stores.

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Most of the larger sawmills, distributors, and wholesalers are members of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. You can go to the website at www.natlhardwood.org for a directory. Many wholesalers also have small lot sales that can help you on smaller projects. Good luck.

Steve

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If you’re ever out in Ohio, there’s a store in Toledo that specializes in hardwood lumber. It’s a family owned shop. Very basic. They do a lot to keep overhead low & it shows in their prices. The name is Kencraft. They have a lot of domestic lumber and quite a bit of exotic lumber. They also have some specials that they run in the store (discounts on certain kinds of lumber that changes throughout the year). They have a website too, it’s a fairly new website.

I’m from Toledo ohio , Mrdude is spot on Kencraft is awesome http://www.kencraftcompany.com/ they also sell on ebay http://stores.ebay.com/KC-Hardwoods-Woodworking-Products there discounts are mostly maple cherry oak and some times ash and they carry alot of extotics and are extremely pleasant to do business with ! two thumbs up !

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Woodfinder always seems to get mentioned as a place to look, but it doesn’t show the majority of sources because it’s something like $300 a year to be listed. I never bother with it.

I just visited the Kencraft store. Those aren’t bad for the quality of the wood in the pictures. I might have to test them out and write a review. :)

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I bought these board from http://www.exoticlumberinc.com/ in Maryland. the shipping was not bad and there prices are very good so it is worth while to buy through them. I visited there business and it has the best collection I have seen anywhere, real unusual boards.