Whittling

215 readers

1 users here now

For people who like to carve things out of wood

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

antila91@sh.itjust.works

Where do you guys source your wood from? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by antila91@sh.itjust.works to c/whittling@sh.itjust.works

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I live in a big city and can’t exactly snap a branch of a random tree or real pick up random sticks from people’s backyards without getting some looks.

I’ve ordered off Amazon and Etsy in the past for basswood and walnut that was not bad.

Im just curious where other people get resources?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Zaphodquixote@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, busted furniture too.

No bull, people toss broken chairs and such all the time. Wood is wood for the most part, so a little effort and you've got materials. Depends on your city, of course, whether or not you can just roll up and grab things, but most folks that are just tossing things don't care, so if there's no ordinances in place against it, it's a fairly sustainable way.

We do it out here in the country too, though there's usually plenty of fallen branches and whatnot.

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't even thinking about furniture, I assumed most of it had moved over to the laminated plywood type stuff which I wasn't sure is any good for carving.