Live Edge/Urban Wood

Special Interest Groups
#1

Hey everyone!

As were all of you, we were hoping to bring in some materials to start a Special Interest Group with the Fine Woodworkers on Live Edge and Urban Wood. I’m Tom Hamilton with Lumbercycle and we’re a 501c3 nonprofit sawmill partnered with SDFWA and we currently run a Woodmizer LT70, Lucas Mill 7-23, and an alaskan mill with an 8’ bar. We have two solar kilns and are about 5 days away from having a functioning DH kiln for drying and sterilization.

I’d like to take this opportunity to discuss harvesting and preparing locally sourced wood and the applications for “live edge” projects versus using dimensional lumber and the pros and cons of using urban wood and domestic and imported hardwoods.

We have a large amount of air dried lumber available at our warehouse in National City for $5 per board foot and will soon have kiln died material as well at a higher rate based on species. Half of the proceeds from any purchases by members will be donated back to the club.

So let’s starting asking questions and sharing interests and we’ll go from there!

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#2

Looking forward to the discussions.

#3

What kinds of woods do you have on hand now and what do you expect to have with the kiln dried material? Thanks in advance.

#4

There are many kinds… I’d say our most popular at the moment is Sheoak but there is also Sycamore, Torrey pine, red gum, sugar gum, sweet gum (liquidambar), blue gum, deodar cedar, incense cedar, cottonwood, Brisbane box, podocarpus, and CA pepper in the showroom and out in the log yard in the stacks waiting for the kiln we have black acacia, ash, poplar, olive, elm, Norfolk Island pine, burled eucalyptus, Monterey pine, Monterey cypress and anything else that came down in someone’s back yard! Species we rarely get: walnut (we have one stump for gun stocks). Species we’ve never gotten: maple and anything else you can find at your local domestic and import hardwood store.

Have you got a favorite?