Originally Posted by
turbine712
I have gone to Rockler and in their back room they have a big wooden tub that is filled with end cuts and small pieces of woods. I picked up some Jatoba, Lacewood, Kempas and Cocobolo. Some of the boards were 1"X12X16-18" in length. I ripped them down to 2 1/4" and then re-sawed it to 5/32". I picked up all of that wood for less than $20.00 and most of it was the big size. They had a lot of wood Ebony, Pink Ivory, Purple Heart and Paduk. I didn't spend a lot of time digging way down deep but I'm sure if I did I would of found more. Oh, I even picked up some 1X6 Birds Eye Maple and some rough Curly Maple too.