ROFLMAO!!! Exactly my situation! A very Stoogely bit of humor, Mr T!
Although actually, we don't have Home Depot here, just Lowe's. And
there's no maple either, just soft poplar (except that THEY seem to
think it's a hardwood).
I can't bring myself to buy solid hardwood through mail order - I
guess it is ingrained into me that I must inspect an entire bin of
wood to pick the least disgusting one...
That's why I picked the birch plywood for my project. There are no
warping worries as with some green solid hardwoods. It's easy to
work, and looks lovely when stained. I prefer the grain pattern of
birch to oak, which I find coarse and uninteresting. Now if I could
get cherry veneered plywood, I'm there! The plywood edges are easily
covered with rolls of birch veneer strips, which come with heat
activated glue already applied. You just use an iron to apply them -
it goes on easily and sticks tenaciously.
And did I mention you can buy all this stuff at Lowe's? And that
Lowe's is my only stinkin choice?
Moe
(who in his youth was able to work with 100 year old walnut beams
recycled from old barns. Sigh.)
--- In motm@y..., "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@j...> wrote:
> In Connecticut we have a lot of choices when shopping for wood:
>
> The Home Depot in Orange, the Home Depot in North Haven, the Home
Depot in
> Wallingford, the Home Depot in Bridgeport, the Home Depot in
Fairfield....
>
> Then there's a very different kind of store we can also visit: the
Lowe's in
> East Haven, the Lowe's in West Haven... you get the idea.
>
> And they both carry a wide range of quality woods:
>
> Pine, crappy pine, REALLY crappy pine, junk pine unfit for making
skids,
> lousy expensive maple, and red oak. Lots of red oak. So I'm
thinking red
> oak, myself. I'll stain it, you know?
>