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 method .
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 , that’s why the industrial wood can be very cheap .
We can make industrial wood from wood small pieces which were about to be thrown away as garbage maybe .
We can make industrial wood from different types of wood mixed 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 masterpiece 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 much money 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 .
