Another reason to build pedals

Dan0h

Dan0h

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Before I fell down the pedal rabbit hole I spent many years and stoopid $ on woodworking tools. Little did I know when I put that world on pause and jumped head first into pedals that the wood market would go insane. My last walnut purchase was on Feb 1st 2020. Right before all hell broke loose pandemic wise… today I missed the smell of danish oil so I checked walnut prices. WTF. I’m going to stick to pedals for now.
2020 prices
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2022 prices
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Sadly, it’s another indictor of the general state of things, but humans have a way of working around such obstacles…when we began depleting the forests, we invented plastic and poisoned ourselves along with the planet and non-involved species. That’ll show us.

Edit: Now we’re off to other parts of the solar system to finish the job.

@Dan0h - not to say that woodworking is responsible for any of that…quite the opposite in fact. Woodworkers ususally support forestry preservation as it sustains the craft.
 
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Fwiw, walnut was only slightly cheaper on the rockler site than it currently is. Their in store lumber prices are all lower based on regional availability, while their online lumber prices factor in a portion of the losses from free shipping.
Back in 2018 I ordered the 3/4x3x48 and it was around $30— a 10% increase due to current factors is fairly reasonable. Unfortunately rockler is still by far the cheapest place for me to get walnut (and since it’s so expensive, I pretty much never can afford to work with it) since the nearest supplier I’ve found with reasonably priced walnut boards is well over 100 miles away. Wood in general has always been absurdly expensive here on Long Island. Half of the local mills want $40 a board foot for green roughsawn cherry ffs. That’s nearly 8x the average domestic price of kiln dried cherry.
 
fig said:
Sadly, it’s another indictor of the general state of things, but humans have a way of working around such obstacles…when we began depleting the forests, we invented plastic and poisoned ourselves along with the planet and non-involved species. That’ll show us.

Edit: Now we’re off to other parts of the solar system to finish the job.

@Dan0h - not to say that woodworking is responsible for any of that…quite the opposite in fact. Woodworkers ususally support forestry preservation as it sustains the craft.
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I got a feeling that deforestation was more impacted by the pulp industry than by the woodworking industry...

Think of all the print out you did that went straight to trash, every doc you decided to print single sided, use of scott towels instead of a rag... etc.

I use to say:

How many trees do you save printing double sided ?

1 out of 2 !
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Fwiw, walnut was only slightly cheaper on the rockler site than it currently is. Their in store lumber prices are all lower based on regional availability, while their online lumber prices factor in a portion of the losses from free shipping.
Back in 2018 I ordered the 3/4x3x48 and it was around $30— a 10% increase due to current factors is fairly reasonable. Unfortunately rockler is still by far the cheapest place for me to get walnut (and since it’s so expensive, I pretty much never can afford to work with it) since the nearest supplier I’ve found with reasonably priced walnut boards is well over 100 miles away. Wood in general has always been absurdly expensive here on Long Island. Half of the local mills want $40 a board foot for green roughsawn cherry ffs. That’s nearly 8x the average domestic price of kiln dried cherry.
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I picked up a nice pile of Cherry boards at an estate sale a few years back. The boards were pretty warped from being in a barn for years but for small projects it works out great. Still have some left. Maybe I’ll just do a wood enclosure for a fuzz pedal and call it a cherry bomb. Here’s a little box I made for my daughter out of the Cherry and some walnut.

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On the subject of wood prices, in the summer of 2019, after the pandemic started I decided to build a 12 X 20 shed in the back yard. At the time I needed 72 2X4X8 framing lumber. I think I paid 1.49 CAD each. The following summer, the same framing lumber went up to 8.99 CAD, if not more.

I was pretty glad that I built my shed that last summer, it would have cost me probably 5 times the price a year later...

Insane !
 
I work in one of the biggest custom woodworking companies in the states...... Wood material prices are killing our business..... I've had our purchasing team trying to find some 12/4 Quartered Figured Walnut for a couple of conference tables for a project I'm managing for google and the prices are absolutely nuts.... We are buying the lumber as slabs and for these two tables and I'm not finding it any cheaper than $4500 for two slabs... We have a rough mill at our plant so we dimension all our own lumber from rough stock. We also have our own moulders and cnc knife making machine to cut any profile on the fly to make any type of trim at any size needed.
 
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