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« on: March 28, 2012, 08:54 PM » |
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Question that's more for the hobbyist than the professionals on the FOG, where do you buy good quality hardwood plywood or Russian, Baltic Birch plywood?
When I ran a business I had a wholesale lumber supplier that carried whatever grade of plywood you wanted but, now when I want to buy one or two sheets the only local suppliers seem to be the big box stores that carry imported junk from China.
I live in Northern California so, I would like to find a supplier in the greater Bay Area.
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« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2012, 09:03 PM » |
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I have found Made in Canada Russian Birch at my local Home Depot so don't discard the big box stores too readily. I usually buy my lumber from one or two local yards, and one of them also has cabinet grade plywood.
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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2012, 09:03 PM » |
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I'm in San Francisco and regularly head out to MacBeath in Berkeley for both plywood and hardwood. They have 1/2" and 3/4" baltic birch and a large inventory of hardwood plywood...I recently got some African mahogany ply from them. Prices are about as good as it gets in the Bay Area. Example: I paid $76 for a sheet of 3/4" Khaya (Af. mahogany) ply. A plywood retailer in the city quoted me $100 something for 3/4" Af. mahogany. The staff is helpful and nice.
Their regular cabinet grade birch ply is much better than the big box stores and a few bucks cheaper. Tons of prefinished ply as well.
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« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2012, 09:10 PM » |
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I'm in San Francisco and regularly head out to MacBeath in Berkeley for both plywood and hardwood. They have 1/2" and 3/4" baltic birch and a large inventory of hardwood plywood...I recently got some African mahogany ply from them. Prices are about as good as it gets in the Bay Area. Example: I paid $76 for a sheet of 3/4" Khaya (Af. mahogany) ply. A plywood retailer in the city quoted me $100 something for 3/4" Af. mahogany. The staff is helpful and nice.
Their regular cabinet grade birch ply is much better than the big box stores and a few bucks cheaper. Tons of prefinished ply as well.
I guess I'll have to leave the Livermore Valley and head out to MacBeath. I just got back from the local Home Depot and didn't find any "Russian Birch" from Canada, only imports from China. |
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« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2012, 10:36 PM » |
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Well, you can special order Columbia Forest Products Europly Plus and probably other of their products from the Home Depots around where I live and maybe most of the country. Europly is not cheap but it does seem to be pretty good. You are right though - the stuff they normally stock is really obnoxious. There is an email contact on this page: http://www.columbiaforestproducts.com/products/europlyplusI found it helpful to write. |
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« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2012, 11:52 PM » |
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Well, you can special order Columbia Forest Products Europly Plus and probably other of their products from the Home Depots around where I live and maybe most of the country. Europly is not cheap but it does seem to be pretty good. You are right though - the stuff they normally stock is really obnoxious. There is an email contact on this page: http://www.columbiaforestproducts.com/products/europlyplusI found it helpful to write. Thank you, I'll check with my local Home Depot manager to see if I can purchase that product locally. |
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« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2012, 01:23 AM » |
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I'll add another +1 for MacBeath. They have some good stuff. If you do make the trip to Berkeley you should swing by Hida Tool they have a great selection of Japanese hand tools. There is a good plywood place in Hayward http://www.mckillican.com/ which is a little closer to you than Berkeley |
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« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2012, 05:51 AM » |
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Not sure where you are located but if you are near the northeast I would check out Boulter Plywood in Sommerville, MA. Kind of a "hole-in-the-wall" type of place but they have an impressive inventory of sheet goods, veneers and hardwood. I buy my prefinished maple plywood from them. I have also bought melamine and other laminate type materials. Whe I was doing my last kitchen I also got a pretty good deal on Blum self-closing drawer guides, bulk order.
Hope this is helpful.
JPF
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« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2012, 08:43 AM » |
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Macbeath sells Appleply.  |
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« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2012, 09:57 AM » |
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If you are in Northern New England, Maine Coast Lumber in York, Maine (on the New Hampshire border) is very hard to beat. I think they deliver all over MA, too.
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« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2012, 10:50 AM » |
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Well, you can special order Columbia Forest Products Europly Plus and probably other of their products from the Home Depots around where I live and maybe most of the country. Europly is not cheap but it does seem to be pretty good. You are right though - the stuff they normally stock is really obnoxious. There is an email contact on this page: http://www.columbiaforestproducts.com/products/europlyplusI found it helpful to write. Thank you, I'll check with my local Home Depot manager to see if I can purchase that product locally. You might have to educate them - my local Home Depot had no clue they offered the stuff. I ended up bringing them a quote that I got by writing to the email address on the page I linked to. |
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« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2012, 12:52 PM » |
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I'll add another +1 for MacBeath. They have some good stuff. If you do make the trip to Berkeley you should swing by Hida Tool they have a great selection of Japanese hand tools. There is a good plywood place in Hayward http://www.mckillican.com/ which is a little closer to you than Berkeley Thanks, I had forgotten about McKillican so, I'll have to contact them again. I had previously purchased drawer slides from them and at the time they were just building up their plywood supply. One of their guys had quoted me $125/sheet of 3/4 Rift White Oak which seems reasonable. I use Japan Woodworker for my Japanese tools and have been buying from them for over 35 years. |
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