I unfortunately do not use my cnc much, but i have a special project i want to do. Good gooogly the lumber prices i just encountered!!! It is insane! I cannot understand how you guys are doi g so much!
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Just wait until the recently announced 35% duties on Canadian lumber kick in. Canadian lumber accounts for over 40% of the US market, so expect a hefty price increase coming to a lumber yard near you
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I cannot believe where we are today! We are tooo smart for this!
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Whoa 2 posts deletedđ¤ should i delete topic!
No, for me I realized that my comment could be considered political, and I value this forum as a politics free zone
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Same. Let the topic be, weâll just keep the political stuff out.
I agree, lumber prices suck and are getting worse.
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Canadian here, still pricey depending your location so thankfully we donât have much of an increase coming
Same here. Since I do woodwork as a hobby, my âclientsâ (friends, etc.) donât pay as much as I ask, so thereâs nothing I can do, and when I try to explain the price, thereâs no understanding.
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Make sure youâre shipping at a lumber store, not a big box home improvement store. But yeah, it is not getting better.
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Up here (Canada) I was told that lumber pricing since covid has been following a supply and demand model. When Covid hit a lot of people stopped travelling and instead started building decks & sheds and rebuilding fences etc. It created a major demand on the lumber industry and so prices went up. Since then the pricing has been heavily driven by seasonal demand. We have one lumber shop here that specifically orders during non demand times to stockpile and then passes those prices on to buyers. Huge respect for them doing so. Around here, if you wanna build a fence, buy your fence boards in the winter.
Plywood and âwhite lumberâ pricing doesnât seem to fluctuate as much.
Hmm, I always make abundantly clear to my friends that I am more than happy to create something for them, doing it for free regarding the work that I am doing, but that they are paying the material. One of my closest friends just asked me to make an Olive charcuterie board, ~60cm long, 25cm wide. He is completely fine with paying for the material (which is around 60âŹâŚ man, olive is expensiveâŚ).
I often also build stuff to just give away to make people happy. Obviously thatâs on me then. 
The prices also rose here, but not too much because I am shopping at a big lumber store in Hamburg or at small, local dealers I found over the time that are pretty cool. 
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That is also me. Usually I make stuff for gift. But when someome asks hey could you do this. I like to have at least my own back and somethimg extra so I can do this 
Usual case âhey I saw this cool thing( show pic) could you make this?â âfor sure it seems that material will cost roughly 60e and everything above that makes me smileâ ânaah could you make it for 20e?â âI canât buy even paints in that price, soo no dealâ
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Haha, also know that, he was like: I want that in black walnut, since you do it yourself it should be cheaper than the one on the internet (which was multiplex)⌠Suuuuuuuure. Material is 80âŹâŚ
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Another one is comparing it to the IKEA product. Maaan Iâm doing this from wood not from cardboard 
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Wasnt there also something with a beetle/inspect/pest that destroyed a bunch of prime lumber up there around COVID time? Sounds like a perfect storm of nature, economics, and uh questionable decision making leading to a perfect stormâŚnow its $90 for a sheet of crappy plywood near meâŚ
also why IKEA basically owns and logs their own forests. Master class in vertical integration.
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Hmmm maybe youâre getting it from the wrong place. I recommend living in a Arizona and having a neighbor cut down their olive tree and give you the wood. It worked for me anyway.
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Beautiful!!!
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Hooray! Iâm an Arizona native and the pollen from those trees drives my allergies crazy! Letâs harvest them all!
Seriously - thatâs very nice work.
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