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Appreciation post: the old guy at my lumber yard in Tulsa who marks the good face on every board for me
I build face frame cabinets out of a small garage setup in Tulsa and I buy most of my poplar and maple from a yard off 11th. There's a guy named Duane there, been at that counter since I was a kid, and about a month ago he started chalking an X on the show face of every board before it goes on the racks. I never asked him to do it, he just saw me digging through a bunk one Saturday and said I was wasting good stock turning the wrong side out. Cut my waste down to almost nothing on a 40 board run last week. Any of you got a yard guy like that, or do you just sort it yourself at the truck?
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the_xena27d ago
How did you get so lucky with Duane? My yard guys just wave me toward the stacks and go back to their coffee, so I end up flipping every board myself and it eats half my Saturday. That chalk X thing is such a small move but I bet it saves you hours, wish more folks at the counter cared like that.
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