I'm almost done with my shop and decided to build myself an Adirondack chair to chill out in a corner. I'm building the one from popular mechanics. I've never made anything using a cut list. It was a nightmare.
I took the cut list to my local wood supplier and must have spent 2 hours sifting thru various sized pieces of Spanish cedar to get what I needed. I needed about 24 board feet and after all that time left with about 35 board feet. Is there a better way to go about this? Anyone can lay this out on paper but you're at this he mercy of what is available when you get to the wood store. It got frustrating having to buy extra 4" wide boards because I can't fit more than one 2.5" cut on them. There will be a ton of waste at $7.49/board foot
Any ideas or at least empathy?