I regularly check out the want ads and see live slabs and other wood for sale for hundreds of dollars. Then I come across a kitchen table set for sale, 6 foot wide table with chairs solid Oak, great condition 100 dollars…
Has anyone ever purchased used furniture and scrapped it for materials?
I am considering it.
Thanks…
Matthias Wandel on YT has been dumpster diving for years. He took apart a lot of furniture for his projects. You may also want to go to the thrift store and look around, I’ve seen furniture items for pennies on the dollar.
I’ve picked up some free pieces by the side of the road and so cut them up — I’ve considered buying a few, and probably will resort to that in the future — “brown furniture” as it’s called is quite out of style, and much devalued.
I am thinking the quality of some of the wood I am seeing is higher then what I can buy in a store aged dried non warped wood. Large table tops…
For instance:
Marketplace wood table
Yes, I’ve done this with different tables and stuff before. I have a friend who has a second planer we use to strip the finish off too which is nice (wouldn’t want to do it on one with good knives on it)
I have bought a lot of hardwood lumber at Habitat for Humanity Restore in the past. People donate all kinds of lumber and junk furniture that you can repurpose. I have also bought a lot of shop tables and chairs and other useful things for my shop at HFH. If you have one in or near your city it is a good place to get useful things and you are helping a worthy charity.
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