how to order wood

chuckt · #11 07-12-2008, 10:39 PM

FYI - contact info for Alex Bisso is:

Be So Good Wood
Alex Bisso - Chief Carver and Wood Finder albisso@bresnan.net
4407 Rimrock Road
Billings, MT 59106
Phone: (406) 655-4609

Mitchell · #12 07-13-2008, 03:37 AM

I used to live off Bryan Blvd (actually behind Friendly Shopping Center), so I know where Oak Ridge is located. I moved away about 7 years ago.

Greensboro doesn't have a club (at least when I was there), but the local woodcraft store should be of some help. Seems like they were trying to get something established.

I believe there's a club in Winston-Salem and I know there's a good one in Lexington. I buy knives from a gentleman in Kernersville (Ralph Long), and I believe they may have a club also.

Anyway, it really does help to have the "companionship" of fellow carvers.

Eddy Smiles · #13 07-13-2008, 02:23 PM

Tom H... I just thought that I'd comment on your statement that Woodcraft orders their wood from Heinecke Wood Products. They may but I've visited a number of Woodcraft stores in different parts of the country (Florida, Tennessee, Connecticut) and they all seem to carry different quallity basswood. From what I've heard from folks on this forum Heinecke Wood Products are top of the line and from what I've seen at Woodcraft not all of the basswood that they've had to sell came near meeting that criteria. Woodcraft may buy from Heinecke on occasion but I'd be willing to bet that they'll take a low bidder if one comes along.

Tom H · #14 07-13-2008, 03:03 PM

Eddy, Correct-O-Mondo! I probably should have said that the Woodcraft store in my neck of the woods orders from Heinecke. Don't know about any of the others. Several members of our carving group work part time at the Woodcraft store. Maybe each of the stores owners have the option to buy carving wood where they wish.

Tom H

Eddy Smiles · #15 07-13-2008, 06:19 PM

That's real lucky for the carvers in your area....at least when they go into Woodcraft and ask a question there is someone there that can give then a straight answer. That's not always the case at our Woodcraft and I guess you really can't blame the employees. The store carries such a wide variety of wood tools that you've got less than a 50-50 chance of being waited on by someone who knows much of anything about carving, even scroll saw work for that matter. I went in one day and asked for a skip tooth blade and they had no idea what I was talking about even though I eventually found it myself on the shelf.

JimmyB · #16 07-13-2008, 08:19 PM

Hi Catbird,
The Tar Heel Wood Carvers meet in Thomasville, NC on the 4th Sunday of the month. If you know where the Big Chair is..... we meet in the recreation building diagonally across the rr tracks from the chair from 2:30 - 4:00. Some members are from the W-S, Kernersville and High Point area. Would like to see ya there.