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Hot take: That 'reclaimed' barn wood from the auction last month is more trouble than it's worth.
Spent a whole week pulling nails and metal fragments out of every board, and my planer knives are shot. Anyone have a good supplier for clean, dry stock around the Midwest?
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jakewilliams3d ago
Man, tell me about it. I did a whole dining table from reclaimed oak last fall and found a bullet slug embedded in one of the planks. The trick that finally worked for me was buying a cheap metal detector from harbor freight and running it over every board before I even brought them in the shop. Saved my planer from eating another nail. And I have to give a shoutout to @veramartin here, because I actually found my go-to mill by asking around at a local woodworking meetup they mentioned once. That place has kiln-dried white oak that's honestly cheaper than what I was paying for the headache of pulling hardware.
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veramartin2mo ago
You're telling me, I found a horseshoe in mine. I get what lindahunt is saying about character, but sometimes you just need wood that's ready to go. My local yard gets clean white oak from a mill upstate.
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