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   jeffn7 | Sep 30, 2002 08:57pm | #1

   where do you live?

   In the Bay Area, Northern Hardwoods has a nice selection of spalted maple boards.

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   JeffKurtz | Sep 30, 2002 09:53pm | #2

   Rooky,

   Why don't you check with some local mills.  Unless they have somebody who buys the stuff from them, they just throw it in with the rest of the #3 where it goes for box lumber since spaltting is considered a defect and renders the board worthless.  You should be able to buy it for nest to nothing.

   Jeff

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   b1gcountry | Sep 30, 2002 09:59pm | #3

   What?? No offense, but the people who run mills around here know it is expensive, and don't throw it out. The yards around here sell it for ~$12 bf.

   Tom

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   JeffKurtz | Sep 30, 2002 10:08pm | #5

   Big C,

   Sorry, but you're talking to a sawyer of over 25 years.  We throw out all that stuff, including birdseye maple.  (Yikes!)  When you're running 12,000+ b.f. through the mill every day, you don't have time to stop and pick through the stuff, and you're not about to store small quantities in valuable warehouse space waiting for a customer who may or may not come along.  .

   A smaller mill has the luxury of catering to its customers, but a big mill only looks at production figures and the bottom line.  That's business.

   Jeff

   Edited 9/30/2002 3:42:28 PM ET by Jeff K

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   b1gcountry | Oct 01, 2002 12:53am | #6

   wow Jeff, I would never have figured that. Where was the sawmill you worked at? I will have to check the yellow pages for large sawmills around St Louis.

   Thanks,

   Tom

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   JeffKurtz | Oct 01, 2002 02:07am | #8

   Tom,

   Upper Michigan.  At one mill where I worked everything went into making broom blocks!

   Jeff

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   AlanTurner | Sep 30, 2002 10:07pm | #4

   Were are you located?  Was out to Groff & Groff this weekend, and they had some.  They tend to be lower priced on this sort of thing (and most things) than some others.  That would be in the Lancaster, PA area.

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   RW | Oct 01, 2002 12:56am | #7

   I've got about 700 bd ft of spalted maple still sitting here. Depending on how much you want, we might bargain. Email me. Course, shipping might kill the idea in its infancy.