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Need some (relatively) thin boards

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I'm off to work on some boxes. Our local lumberyards will rarely take any woods below an inch thick, which will make some hefty boxes. It took some doing to convince him to take some stock down to 3/4 of an inch, and that was with some degree of mild grumbling. There is nowhere else around me other than the usual big box stores, where most boards vaguely resemble U shapes.

I'm hoping to find a series of boards from you that would be 1/2 or 1/4 inch thick to at least form trim work and bottoms and accents.

For the bottoms, anything like cherry, maple, and birch would be fine, as the bottoms are "hidden" anyway. For the accent and trim pieces, I'm happy to pick up any woods that are a little more unique or exotic.

Any advice in this realm will also be greatly appreciated. After finishing a bookshelf, I am now moving on to boxes as the latest order to be filled by the significant other.
 
I can provide most any size of Cherry and Maple up to 8" wide in thin lumber 1/8", 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2". Many other species including exotic. Let me know what size you prefer and the quantity of each.
 
David can provide you some nice wood for boxes - speaking from experience. Two other comments - if you have a band saw or access to a bandsaw, you can resaw your own thicker pieces into thins. And if you have a table saw, you can resaw boards up to around 4" wide (raise the blade just under half the width of your board, position your fence for the thickness you want, and make a cut. Flip the board end on end so you keep the same side against the fence and make another cut. You'll have a board with two deep kerfs held together by a thin strip down the middle. Simply cut that thin strip with a hand saw, plane, scrape, or sand them smooth and you've got box sides. The advantage of this is it lets you use wood you might already have on hand and wood that isn't necessarily cut to dimensional lumber.

The second comment I'll add it to consider using plywood for the box bottoms. It's much more stable, less likely to move and twist your box out of shape. You can stain it to closely match and compliment your box sides and lid. Get baltic birch ply so it has a higher quality surface on both sides. You can get it in any thickness you want, even 1/8" which is what I use for smaller boxes.
 
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DLJeffs said:
David can provide you some nice wood for boxes - speaking from experience. Two other comments - if you have a band saw or access to a bandsaw, you can resaw your own thicker pieces into thins. And if you have a table saw, you can resaw boards up to around 4" wide (raise the blade just under half the width of your board, position your fence for the thickness you want, and make a cut. Flip the board end on end so you keep the same side against the fence and make another cut. You'll have a board with two deep kerfs held together by a thin strip down the middle. Simply cut that thin strip with a hand saw, plane, scrape, or sand them smooth and you've got box sides. The advantage of this is it lets you use wood you might already have on hand and wood that isn't necessarily cut to dimensional lumber.

The second comment I'll add it to consider using plywood for the box bottoms. It's much more stable, less likely to move and twist your box out of shape. You can stain it to closely match and compliment your box sides and lid. Get baltic birch ply so it has a higher quality surface on both sides. You can get it in any thickness you want, even 1/8" which is what I use for smaller boxes.
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Another advantage of cutting your own stock with a bandsaw or tablesaw, is that the sides are bookmatched. Meaning that their grain matches perfectly. A bookmatched box top of some kind of very interesting wood (say macassar ebony) would be absolutely killer.
 
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I can provide most any size of Cherry and Maple up to 8" wide in thin lumber 1/8", 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2". Many other species including exotic. Let me know what size you prefer and the quantity of each.
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I just basically need a stock so I have it available on hand, but a mixture of 3/8 and 1/2 boards of cherry and maple would work great with maybe a few exotics thrown in for variety trim and lid/handle accents. Maybe 6ish boards total, especially if they are 8 across.
 
Multiple species 1. Maple $60 a bundle of 20. 2,3 aussie blackwood $7-8sguare foot. 4 eucalyptus $7 sq 5. Mahogany, 6 misc
 

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DirtFarmer said:
I just basically need a stock so I have it available on hand, but a mixture of 3/8 and 1/2 boards of cherry and maple would work great with maybe a few exotics thrown in for variety trim and lid/handle accents. Maybe 6ish boards total, especially if they are 8 across.
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12" x 8" x 3/8" Maple & Cherry - $7 each. 12" x 8" x 1/2" Maple & Cherry - $7.50 each. Price is plus freight. I can get a good number in a flat rate box. Most of our exotic is 3", 4" or 6" width. Some species include Purpleheart, Padauk, Yellowheart, Wenge, Sapele, Mahogany, Black Limba, Red Canarywood, Bloodwood, Afrormosia, Spanish Cedar, Yellow Canarywood, are the more popular.
 
I have a fair bit of thin stock, probably more than I could use for years. I good bit of it is Khaya and African Padauk, but I also have yellowheart, Bolivian rosewood, bloodwood, purpleheart, and several domestics just to name a few. I basically have thins of virtually every species carried by Ocooch Hardwoods, since that's where most of it came from lol. To be honest, you might want to just look into buying their off-cut boxes yourself...they are a great deal especially when on sale. And shipping isn't bad.

But if you only wanted a few or wanted to pick specific species, I'm sure I could help you out. What other dimensions are needed besides 1/4" - 1/2" thick?
 
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