Thread: Where to find wood?

What sorts of places do you scale makers find your wood at?

Take your chainsaw to the local forest

Try amazon hard woods or your local rockler or woodcarfter stores. I've had good success with scott over on ebay as well.

actually you can find some great woods on ebay believe it or not. If you are up for that try searching for scale blanks, knife scales etc. If you are looking for a certain type of wood, just look it up and you'll find almost anything.

I get my wood from Bell Forest Products at www.bellforestproducts.com

Rich

Always acknowledge a fault frankly. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.” – Mark Twain

Out of a few vendors that I've done business with on ebay, this gentleman is by leaps and bounds the best.

eBay Store - exotic wood by scott: Turning Stock, Pen Blanks, Knife Scales

Either the wood pile out back ot one of the gum trees out front. Or you can beg some from your friends @SRP.

You can get some scale material from knife making supply stores, but a lot of the material is 5 inches and too short for razors, unless you want to make end pieces. You'll need scale material 6 inches in length. Here's a source for precut:

Lumber Sold in Pre-Cut Lengths - Rockler

If you have the means to cut your own slabs then here's one for you:

Heimerdinger Cutlery

Good luck with your project.

I use my back yard and keep an eye out for trees cut down in my town. I also check craigslist for people selling firewood. I call them and ask if they'd sell me a single log of decent wood (maple, oak, walnut, cherry) for cheap. The downside is that I then have to wait a year to actually cut the wood.

Plus one on www.bellforestproducts.com

These guys go above and beyond on customer service, shipping is good too...

The 1x1x12 hobby wood and the 1.5 x 1.5 x 6 blocks are what I use