What do you think of hardwood floor surpluses? Occasionally real 3/4″ thick hardwood tongue and groove can be had for low per sq ft price.
Are they mostly too short to be used? Gluing the short width together don’t look good?
Edited 10/7/2007 12:31 pm ET by woodenfish3
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If the lengths are reasonable, and there is no profile molded into the underside (most quality hardwood flooring has this), then I might find some limited uses. But how do you think that, for instance, a drawer front would look if it was this type of a glue-up?
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woodenfish3
I cheat by buying such wood before it's been milled and the prices increased dramatically.
Shop from your local sawmill and you can make the prices they offer look expensive.
If you are thinking of using this for a floor someplace, well the wood they offer at a low price is a poor grade of wood and while it has a certain rustic charm it's not a great wood to use in your living room.. the wood for a living room is about the same price as big box stores sell it at.
If on the other hand you are thinking of making furniture then go to woodmizer and ask them for a list of local sawmills in your area.. You can buy wood for about 10% of it's selling price. You will of course have to dry it. (costs noting, simply a little time) and mill it before it can be used.. Not terribly expensive and the money saved can easily pay for the equipment needed to do it..
Isn't most wood for floor quarter sawn?
If I cut the tongue and groove off would the wood be good for table legs etc, not for gluing for larger panels?
woodenfish,
No most flooring is plainsawn not quartersawn.. as for cutting off the tongue and groove you'd have a stick that is 3/4 of an inch thick and about 1 3/4 wide plus flooring has relief cuts on the back side to aid in keep the wood flat on the floor.
If you ran it thru a planner to get the back side smooth you'd have a piece probably slightly less than 1/2 inch tick by an 1 3/4 wide. assuming you bought it at 99 cents per square foot by my calculations you'd be paying around 2.30 per bd.ft.
Sawmill white oak sells for 80 cents per bd.ft. and that's mill run (everything from FAS right thru 3C, about 20% FAS, 40% Select and grade 1 and another 40% in grades 2 & 3, it includes quarter sawn as well as some wood of marginall value which properly should be used as kindling for fires) It is not the 3C level stuff they sell for 99 cents. Just a little more knowledge if you plain saw wood there are always several boards in the center which wind up being quatersawn, those are sorted out of flooring and sold a a much higher price. However when you buy mill run those are included in the price..
You see Mill run is wood that is just as it comes off the log, the good and the poor stuff together..
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