I live in N central Iowa and am having a hard time finding hardwood supplies. Any ideas??
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How far are you willing to drive. There are a number of places in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Dubuque.
There are a lot of places where you could get some, but one tip I have is to always read the reviews, cause you want good quality material, not whatever was left in stock. It's actually quite a tricky choice to make if you don't even try researching the topic first. I made that mistake once but soon learned from it, so it's pretty much a trial and error kind of thing. The mistake I made was not paying any attention if I ordered softwood or hardwood, a pretty big one if you ask me now, but at the time I was naive. I actually found the merchants that I work with to this day by reading an article on their site about Hardwood vs softwood, this one actually https://rajaandraja.com/hardwood-vs-softwood to kind of make an idea about what's the element that I was missing when ordering the wrong thing.
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