January 2020 - www.woodhappiness.com

For all of us , the woodworking "lovers" this so "sweet problem" , is timeless and "captures" much time of our thinking . If you have always enough money , to buy any wood material and surface you desire , it's ok . Searching for wood gives you "tons" of Happiness . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUl_jdz2ELU Searching and finding wood out in nature , in its "primitive" , pure form , gives you a different type of happiness !!!!!! And of course i don't like much to cut trees , they shouldn't be . If you want to find free wood , by your own powers and maybe supporting from some friends , see what you can do : Make Long "Relaxing Soul" Walks to Find Wood . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxyNJu5WixI 1) Make long walks into the forests . Whenever i can , i go outside making long discovering walks in the forest , or in my town's local park , combining my relaxing walks in the nature , with wood "hunt" . Whatever free and already cut wood piece i see and need for my woodworking projects , i take it . Of course , always have in your back pocket , a small saw . It helps if this wood piece , isn't cut completely and needs a little more to be "free" . If it's big , i return to my car and take it . Sometimes , i combine my running training with the wood search , but after a while your brain gets very "trained" to this practice and all the times i 'm in the forest , my eyes "scanning" the area in the "auto mode" . 2) Good friends , carpenters or not , can help . If you have a friend or someone who his job , has to do with the wooden "world" , you can ask for his permission and take the wood pieces , he doesn't use and they are going to the recycle . You'll be surpised of how many and how big enough wood pieces , you'll get . If you this friend , is a carpenter , works in a carpenter shop , even better . 3) Forestry agencies , can help you also . You can go to your local forestry , being very polite wearing your biggest smile and ask the employees , if you can join them some day in the forest , so they can show you , which trees you can cut by yourself , without damaging the ecosystem . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnROl8WmcVY You know with the guidance and licence of the authorities , you can cut some old , or having problems trees , without hurting the environment . On the contrary , by putting away the "damaged" trees from the forest , you benefit the environment and makind the "reborn" of it , easier . Nature has its own ways to reborn when this is needed . Without any external interfearance , the big forests during the very hot summer months , caught fire by themselves and that was a self protecting mechanism , nature has . The very unfortunate thing is that with the upcoming appearance of the human beings , this process didn't remain a self protecting mechanism anymore . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RBJ-p1PEKw Keep searching and finding new ways for free and legally , wood "supplies" , to create your woodworking projects . Keep woodworking and your inner deep happiness , is certain .