Many woodworkers when they want to make some of their carpentry creations , they like to combine expensive wood pieces with a little more “common” ones and of course cheaper .

Buying cheaper wood than the top luxury ones , doesn’t mean that this wood is bad or that you cannot do amazing wooden plans , with it .

Combining many types of wood parts , you can control more easily the cost of your wood project , when you buy or when you sell a wood piece .

The examples of elite wooden furniture manufacturers , combining industrial wood with expensive wooden parts as veneer , et.c are countless .

So searhing for the cheaper wood available , is always a wise and a timeless approach .

The cheapest wood to buy is mostly the area of the soft types of wood as the maple , the poplar , the beech , the oak , some of the hard types and of course all the industrial wood(MDF , particle boards , et.c ) are the most cheap wood types and they’re also very popular , among the woodworkers .

The olive wood and the yew tree/wood are hard types of wood and they are very cheap to buy too .

Usually we use to make more advanced carpentry projects the chestnut , the walnut , the cherry tree , the ebony if you can afford the price , tropical pieces , mahogany and good quality’s plywood to make wood covers , of a cheaper wood type .

This way you can have a low price and prestige , at the same time . The wooden furniture from solid top quality’s wood , in all of their mass , are very expensive for the majority of the “pockets” .

It’s very difficult to see wooden furniture and stuff , from solid olive oil wood and yew wood , but it’s not impossible . Nothing is impossible to the woodworking “planet” and if your “apetite” wants to make stuff by these kind of wood , do it and don’t hesitate .

The only “limit” is your happiness and joy and do whatever you like to “earn” that .

If you want to remember the types of wood & more info , see in HERE .

Wood has many different properties and all these are changing while the time passes . It has many different shapes and of course we separate the trees and the wood into different qualities , according to the properties it has .

Why expensive wood , is expensive ?

As all the materials on earth , the rareness is one of the major factor for a material to have high prices to buy and they are more expensive than the other materials .

Other factor for the wood’s high prices are the properties it has , against the other materials .

There are wood which have low prices and they are very “common” and there are more expensive wood . There is wood which can “catch” thousand” dollars or euros in the wood market stores .

They are very rare , they are very beautiful and they have unique properties , the others don’t have .

The engineered wood isn’t “bad” of course , i like it very much and i use the industrial wood for some of my house needs .

The industrial wood is created by us and we can give to it the specific properties we want and this gives us the comfort to keep the prices way more low than the real wood .

You know the wood particles( maybe waste ) and the glue we use to make our engineer wood , aren’t so expensive .

We can make industrial wood from wood small pieces which were about to be thrown away as trash maybe .

We can make industrial wood from different types of wood mixtures and create very nice looking wood boards to use to our stores and other places we decorate .

We can make industrial wood from sawdust we don’t use and i’m sure you’ve seen these kind of wooden boards in the summer bars near the sea .

Cheap wood is Bad wood ?

Bying a “cheap” wood to make a woodworking creation , doesn’t mean that this creation of yours will be less important or , that it’ll last in time less than more expensive wood type .

If you keep the basic maintenance “laws” , avoid the moisture , the hits and if you use a nice finishing oil once in a while to your wood plan , you won’t have any problem .

I’ve picked some of the best oils & waxes to buy and protect – finish your wood , in HERE .

Bying a cheap wood doesn’t mean that your wood creation won’t be beautiful and it ‘ll be less beautiful than if you had chosen to make it an expensive wood . The cheap wood is a beautiful wood too and you can do whatever you like with it .

The expensive wood pieces have very beautiful , texture maybe and some very nice dark – brown colors , but the cheap wood is very nice also .

Bying a cheap wood doesn’t mean that you’ll need to shape it with different sculpture techniques and methods than the other more expensive types of wood and all this has a big “secret” benefit to you .

If you haven’t spend a fortune to get your wood supplies , it won’t “hurt“much when you’ll make a mistake . You can go and buy another one , without your wallet to “bleed” .

Go to the wood stores , buy your oak , your beech , your maple or an industrial wooden piece and return to your woodworking bench to create stuff .

Do you want some fast workbench buying suggestions ? go HERE .

Woodworking isn’t an expensive hobby for sure but the happiness you’ll get from it , cannot be paid with money .

Keep Woodworking and you happiness will never be cheap for sure .