MOTM

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?
>