large local solid southern pine shaker style living room set

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Comment by fatboyzz.custom on May 30, 2013 at 6:27am

  it has a kiln it can be sent to but,,   instead of like a $1 a bft for pine it would be like $4 dollars a bft,, what i do is stack mine with a air gap and put a large tarp over and have a large fan on either end and i keep them runing off and on and i take the tarp on nice days,,   never had any problem with anything warping and i live in nc,,  i get it to the 6% to 8% mositer and thats dry,,  i am also a hardwood floor installer and i have a moister meter and it only take me about 6 months for pine to dry this why for me,,  oak thats about a year,,  

Comment by Jason Watkins on May 29, 2013 at 9:06pm

Thanks for the tips! I feel the same way about local places. I hate going to lowes for stuff. Does your local sawmill have a kiln, or is all your wood air dried? I've got several sawmills in my area, but no one has a kiln to dry the wood. One guy had some 4/4 pine that had been air drying almost a year. It was stickered and stacked with a roof over it. Down here in FL I just worry about the project warping when it goes into someone's air conditioned home.

Comment by fatboyzz.custom on May 29, 2013 at 3:02pm

  well i take order and get a deposit,,    but i just made these up and the other set am working on know and just have them for sale on all the sites,,  i have more then a couple of peice's made up at a time so if i don't have a order i have something to sell at least,,  if you don't have it you can't sell it,,   the thing is not to go down on the price cause you have had it made up for a while,, i see these other people that make stuff that drop their price every other day and i think dumb a**,,  and you have to mark it up so when they jew you down you still really get what you wanted,, got tobe smart about it,, making a person think their getting a deal makes them happy and they just don't know better lol,,  but also i can do this cause i have a stock pile of wood at all times,,  a pile thats ready and dry and a pile drying,, you can't make any money buy your wood from lowe's it bad enough what you have to pay for from them on the other materail you do get from their,, but i stick with a localy own hardware store and sawmill where the people know you by name and you know the money you spend goes to a local person pocket,,   

Comment by Jason Watkins on May 29, 2013 at 8:35am

do you wait until you have an order with a deposit to build these, or do you just build something you like and then find a buyer?

Comment by fatboyzz.custom on May 28, 2013 at 8:37pm

thanks,,    sold in 3 days,,  it went fast,,  working on another set like this but solid oak but sofa table will have a shelf and the coffee table is square

Comment by David Dean on May 28, 2013 at 6:54pm

nice work

Comment by fatboyzz.custom on May 28, 2013 at 4:19pm

thanks James,,,   yea i just mark mine and cut them by eye on the table saw,,   just rember to keep the first side you cut off and tape it back to the peice and then cut the other side,, this is so everything stay straight and level

Comment by Jason Watkins on May 28, 2013 at 1:57pm

Awesome work! I'm going to try my hand at leg tapers soon!

Comment by James Waller on May 28, 2013 at 8:06am

Any living room would come to "life" with that set in it. Excellent job!