restoration materials swap thread?

[Malacoda]

Just curious, has a materials/parts/bits swap thread ever been tried?

I don't see any recent listings in the forum Workshop area that look like one, and nothing like it in the classifieds either...

Reason I ask is because it kinda sucks having to buy a big piece of material when all you need is a small piece that someone else may have and be willing to trade, sell, or PIF.

For example, in planning a future restore, I've decided to use some kind of orange colored material for the wedge (polyester, recon stone, micarta, whatever). I don't plan on using that color for anything else, just one wedge - but I'll still need to drop roughly $2-$15+S&H on a piece of material of which I'll only end up using maybe 10% of with the rest going to waste...

At the same time, I have a 24"x3"x1/8" piece of blood wood and a 24"x3"x1/4" piece of spalted maple, of which I'll at most only use half - leaving the other halves (each easily good for two to four scales) from each collecting dust. I'd happily stick a 6"x3" piece of each into a padded envelope, slap $2 of first class postage on 'em, and send them off to someone else in trade - or even give them away - rather than see them go unused...

I figure a lot of other guys have bits and pieces - scale materials, extra washers, rods, etc. - laying around that they'd be happy to clear out in trade, sale, or give-away too.

Thinking about it made me curious as to whether or not a 'restoration material swap' of any kind has ever been tried on SRP before ... or if anyone would be interested in trying one now?

Thoughts, experiences, comments - from much more experienced forum members and newbs alike - as to whether the idea of such a thread sounds worthwhile would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[baldy]

I probably wont be able to help out much from Australia but an excellent idea.
Grant

[sapito318]

Definitely a cool idea for those willing to share. There are lots of neat materials out there.

[gssixgun]

Gentlemen I really like this idea too, but if we can, let's take a short time out here, as this is actually technically against SRP rules to start a WTT (Want To Trade) thread outside the Classifieds.... Let Max and I talk this over with the Mod team and see what we can hash out.... Will be in touch


Thread locked until Mods can talk this idea through


Thank you for your patience

Max & Glen the workshop dudes