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Lumber on Long Island

I love living on Long Island. We’re in wonderful a wonderful suburb with great school, wooded lots and I happen to live on a quiet dead end. All that, and I’m only 30 miles from midtown Manhattan.

If you’ve heard me talk about my wonderful Island on the MWAPodcast, you’ve heard gripes about how this wonderful Island doesn’t have a good hardwood dealer. Thankfully, that situation has changed. Long Island is now the perfect place to live.

Recently, I was talking with Greg Ferdinand on twitter and he mentioned that he’d hear Riverhead Building Supply was stocking rough sawn lumber at their Calverton location. Last week he and I met there and boy do they.

It was like this, only real.

Greg and I toured the warehouse to find more than 30 species of rough sawn in stock. This seems to be mostly for Riverhead’s own custom millwork and hardwood flooring use, but they sell their stock to the public. We spend about 30 minutes just walking up and down the aisles, simply amazed at what they had in stock. I saw a piece of 8/4 Sapele that must have been 24” wide by 12’ long.

I’m not sure if these seems impressive to most of you. For Long Island, it is fantastic.

Between Riverhead Building’s Calverton rough sawn lumber warehouse and the new Urban Hardwoods in Huntington Station it looks like I’ll have plenty of wood for future builds.

Note: Im an idiot and didnt think to take an photos.

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2014 Long Island Woodworkers Club Show

This post originally appeared at modernwoodworkersassociation.com

The Long Island Woodworkers ClubShow was this past weekend. This year I had four (4) pieces on display: Stephen’s Step Stool, The Funeral Chair in Blue, the Shaker End Table and Lill’s Quilt rack. The show was at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration, as it has been for the past few years. They have a wonderful timber frame barn that make a perfect venue. There were some amazing pieces there. From case work to bowls, the Long Island Woodworkers Club members showed their skills. None of my pieces medaled and that’s just fine. The ones that did deserved to win.

Brian McKnights Modern Hall Table

Tony Fuocos Bench.

Mike Josiahs Large Endgrain Bowl

Mark Orianos All Mixed Up.

While the show ran all day on Saturday and Sunday, I was only able to attend for about 20 minutes on Saturday afternoon and for about 3 hours on Sunday. During that time I received many comments and compliments on my work. I was pleased by this, but it wasn’t too unexpected.

What was unexpected was which piece received the comments and compliments. Other than one jack ass commenting that Lill’s Quilt Rack was a “great place to hang your towels” all of the comments were aimed at the Funeral Chair in Blue. This surprised me.

My Funeral Chair in Blue on display at the show.

Every comment was about how surprised people were by the look of the Timberstrand with many saying they liked the rich tone of the blue dye also. I heard through back channels that the only reason the chair didnt win a ribbon was that it received demerits for being a non-original design. This praise and interest was much appreciated.

What I didnt appreciate was why Lill’s Quilt Rack didnt receive equal praise.

Lills Quilt Rack on display at the show.

In my opinion, Lill’s Quilt Rack remains the most impressive piece Ive built, both in terms of concept and execution. While it’s not perfect and I didnt expect it to win best in show, I did expect to generate some interest. I certainly expected it to be better received than the Funeral Chair in Blue. Why it didnt, I can’t say I understand.

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2014 Long Island Woodworkers Club Show