Wood To Buy?

[John Nordyke]

Not sure where else I'd post this. I live in Warsaw, MO, and I am looking for air and/or kiln dried lumber - cherry, walnut, oak, other species quite possibly. Rough is fine, I prefer to surface myself. Also interested in green, fresh cut I can chain saw out bowl blanks.

Anyone in the area know who, if anyone, puts up wood for sale??

Thanks in advance...

[Mike Heidrick]

Check your CL. Ask the guys at Grizzlys wood turning club too.

[David Utterback]

Woodmizer has an online database of their saw owners. Also, Timberking is located in KC and they likely know of local mills. Good luck.

[Lee Schierer]

Try woodfinder (http://www.woodfinder.com), just enter your zip code and the type of wood and they will show you the closest sources.

[Brian Henderson]

Try woodfinder (http://www.woodfinder.com), just enter your zip code and the type of wood and they will show you the closest sources.

Unfortunately, woodfinder is very inaccurate. It doesn't find the 3 closest wood dealers to me and these are major regional dealers. In fact, outside of Rockler, the closest it finds to me is 100 miles away and 3 counties over. Yes, it's all done by volunteers and requires people to submit their dealers, but I've done that and it never shows up.

[Marshall Harrison]

Unfortunately, woodfinder is very inaccurate. It doesn't find the 3 closest wood dealers to me and these are major regional dealers. In fact, outside of Rockler, the closest it finds to me is 100 miles away and 3 counties over. Yes, it's all done by volunteers and requires people to submit their dealers, but I've done that and it never shows up.

I tried it for quartersawn oak and the closest to me was 465 miles away and it went up from there.

[Brian Henderson]

I tried it for quartersawn oak and the closest to me was 465 miles away and it went up from there.

That doesn't mean there aren't closer dealers, it just means that woodfinder is very inaccurate and incomplete and then have been for years.

[John Nordyke]

It's going to take someone with local knowledge I think - until 6 months ago I had lived in another rural community for 40+ years, and knew 3-4 locals who quietly put up wood and would sell some. I bet the same applies here in Warsaw, just have to find the right 'connection.'

[David Utterback]

I just checked the Woodmizer web site and they identify mill owners in Preston and Florence which I believe are close to you.

[Lee Schierer]

Have your tried google for "sawmills near Warsaw, MO"? Google came up with several places such as Burkhart's Native Lumber 916 NE Highway 2Windsor, MO 65360 about 32 miles from you.