On Apr 30, 11:46 am, "Michael Faurot"
wrote:


was mentioning there's a sawyer somewhere out around Huebner road. He couldn't remember any of the details though--unfortunately.

If you find out some details about where there's local San Antonio saw mills, I'd definitely be interested in knowing more about these
places.


I keep thinking that someone at sometime will buy or make one of those
band saw mills around here. I know several of the custom furniture
makers here in town, and they can't find anything either, even through
their guild. There was a small bandsaw mill in Seguin a while back,
but I think he is selling his stuff to the mesquite lumber retailer
there. The only sawyer I know sells select mesquite (that is all he
sells) to a few older customers that are furniture makers. He isn't
getting rich, and he doesn't want more customers.

He wouldn't sell anything to me because I wouldn't commit to his 400
bf minimum. Depending on the grade, he gets $7.50 to almost $15 a
bf. On the flip side though, he sells mesquite with no windshake, no
sap wood, and no hollows. It looks like it came out of a perfect
mesquite manufacturing machine. And since it is so rarely that
perfect, the furniture guys buy it with just a phone call from him.

Apparently most of the serious furniture makers around here get in
their truck and take a trailer out to the different places they like.
I know there are a few mills around Austin, a big one in Smithville,
and several in Bryan that specialize in mesquite. At $2.75 a gallon,
with a 16 ft trailer and a minimum hour drive... I don't want to
calculate what that would add to the bf price.

I'll certainly post back here if I find someone in the vicinity.

BTW, where are you?

Robert