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15th July 2020, 11:35 AM #1
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Affordable timbers for general furniture
I'm looking to make a couple of desk drawer units for myself and my wife. nothing fancy, but solid wood exterior, 3 drawers with the bottom one being a filing drawer.
Fairly inexperienced in the 'what wood to use & where to get it' department so I was thinking to use vic ash / tas oak, but keen to take on any input anyone may have on this.
Im based in melbourne, and the best source I've found for dressed vic ash is 135x19 @ $6/m - Im going to need about 16 lm per unit
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15th July 2020, 02:38 PM #2
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Try Briton Timbers and Uptons - both are usually quite competitive on price with reliable quality for select grade.
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15th July 2020, 10:46 PM #3
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That’s a very reasonable price, I buy 65x19 a fair bit and pay about that much. Quality can very dramatically with vic ash/tad oak, perhaps all timbers. Look up DomAu on this forum to see his work from F17 kdhw.
You boys like Mexico ?
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16th July 2020, 09:19 AM #4
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Be careful buying wider tas oak boards, I got caught out because the material I bought (cut to length) were narrower boards jointed and the colour and grain changes were very noticeable. Where I am I don't have much choice without a drive of a couple of hours each way. I would have been better of buying from Bunnings and jointing myself.
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16th July 2020, 12:09 PM #5
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If you have a planer and jointer and some patience, consider gumtree and this forum marketplace. I buy packs of timber occaisonally and there are some good prices to be had (and some rip offs).
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16th July 2020, 02:18 PM #6
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Yeah, no jointer sadly and not much garage space till i find a new house
I have a triton 2000 workcentre saw and a triton router table with the biscuit joiner attachment
and then some hand tools
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