Getting the Most from your Wood-Buying Bucks (Best of AW)

Discover how to evaluate, get the best deals, purchase, and process your own wood to save money! As every woodworker knows, wood prices can fluctuate and keep going up, making even simple woodworking projects more expensive than you would like. Getting the Most from Your Wood Buying Bucks explains shows how to find wood deals, both obvious and hidden. It can help you save money and teach you all you need to know about wood. Both beginner and expert woodworker alike will learn how to: *Evaluate rough lumber and identify the "sweet spot" to get the best cut possible *Get the best wood deals available at stores and mills *Select and repurpose used wood *Grade wood to choose the most economical option based on the project it is needed for *Locate, cut, and dry usable wood for huge savings *Resaw used and thick wood *Selecting and using materials, stabilizing and drying greed wood *Find cheap wood that does not sacrifice in quality *Remove and/or work with wood blemishes, rendering unusable wood usable. The advice here is from the experts at American Woodworker magazine, including Dave Munkittrick, Tom Caspar and Tim Johnson. Each has a long history of working with wood