Thread: It pays to ask

SWMBO and I were out and about on Saturday and we dropped into a hardwood flooring shop.
While we were there I asked the assistant if they had any offcuts of solid flooring, explaining that I could use them for razor scales.
He told me that there was a skip out the back that they threw all the offcuts into and I was welcome to 'help myself'.
Unfortunately it had been emptied the day before, however, he told me that I could get as much as I wanted whenever I was passing and he found 6 or 8 pieces (about 4ft long) in the storeroom that he gave me in the meantime.
Brissy guys PM me and I'll let you know where it is.

I did the same in a local sawmill and got a box or meranti offcuts (reddish brown hardwood).
It's used a lot for making windows. They were even nice enough to fire up the table saw and saw it into pieces of the right dimensions.

I stopped at an old wood shop and asked the guy there for any hardwood cutoffs. He gave me everything here for $7.
Curly maple, oak, mahogany, cherry, lyptus, and two pieces of walnut.
I'm still going through it. It definitely pays to ask.