Best Way To Sell Wood

[Dave Fritz]

What's the quickest, most painless way to sell turning wood? Thinking of having a sale and selling it by the pound.

I'm not selling NOW, rather thinking about when we move to a smaller condo.

 

[Charlie Knighton]

become vendor @ regional symposium and hope virtital symposium become past tense

Need good figured wood that $$! Well

 

[Damon McLaughlin]

We've had club members that have downsized in the past, they had the local turning club send out an email to its members announcing a wood sale, like an invitation only garage sale. If you have a local turning club nearby then that might be an option to consider.

 

[Mike Johnson]

Wood pricing varies greatly by species, grade, quality of wood grain, green or cured and size of the billet. The customers needs will influence the cost they are willing to pay,
over the years I had a hard time sourcing certain types of wood billets in larger sizes for the items I needed to turn. That is when the wood turner starts processing their own
logs into the shape and size of billets they need for the items they turn. Bowl blanks are very common the large sized spindle blanks are a challenge depending on the species
of wood you are wanting. For a number of years I would provide a list of billets to a regional sawmill and they would cut the billets I needed when the logs came in that were of the
size needed to cut the larger billets in the lengths I needed.

 

[Dave Fritz]

Damon, that's exactly what I was thinking of doing. I was thinking of sorting the wood into areas with prices by the pound depending on the species and burls or not etc.. I'm not looking to get rich because I harvested most of the wood myself and enjoyed doing it as much as turning. Everybody likes a deal and I do like to help fellow woodturners out. I can't list all those that have helped me in the clubs I've belonged to, heck some of the wood it no doubt from turning friends.

 

[Dean Center]

In fairness to the buyer, it seems like you'd only want to price fully dry wood by the pound.

 

[Richard Coers]

In my experience, woodturners are a very frugal group when it comes to buying wood. It just grows on trees after all. In all honesty, I'm reluctant to share how I'm selling wood as to not expand my competition.

 

[Rick Crawford]

Have you considered donating some of the wood to a Habitat for Humanity Restore? I shop at any that I come across during my roadtrips, and have seen interesting wood at some. No, you won't make any money, but you'll be supporting a very good cause...and it's tax deductable.

 

[Bill Boehme]

Generally, wood is sold by volume stated in terms of board feet. Hardwood turning blank board feet are calculated based on actual dimensions. If the turning blanks have been cut round on the bandsaw, the board feet are calculated as if the blank were still square so the seller is basing the number of board feet on the wood that was there before rounding off the corners.

 

[robo hippy]

Like Bill said, most of the time, especially dried board stock, it is sold by the BF, 12 by 12 by 1 inch thick. Depending on the wood, it can retail from minimum $3/bf to 'if you have to ask, you can't afford it anyway'. Since I buy logs, I recruit some friends from the club to help me move them around, and give them some wood. A 10 foot log of Oregon Myrtle/California Bay Laurel, dropped off in my driveway, costs about $180 per log, which is dirt cheap. My source buys them by the ton weight. I sell to friends for cost. Retail would probably be 4 times my cost. It just depends. When the AAW Symposium was in Portland a few years back, I took a bunch of blanks up. Probably charged 3 times what it cost me, but by the last day, I was giving a lot away because I didn't want to load it up and haul it home.... You never know what will sell and/or how much it can sell for. Perhaps, always leave some room for dickering....

robo hippy