dumb girl asking quick question where would I find good wood

It looks like that wood was weathered and (maybe painted/sanded, rinse repeat) so it split intentionally. You'd get a plank and "stress" it yourself (google this process) depending on the aesthetics. They were looking to make it salvaged barn-wood tier

>>1125500
Old fallen in barns and sheds. Normally in farm country.

>>1125500
Grab a board from a chic table at a flea market. Go to lumber place, buy the cheapest, knottiest piece of shit plank you can find and stress it with heat, oil, lacquer and sanding. Steal a plank from a stables or old barn. Go to beach, search for driftwood. Put untreated wood in saltwater overnight and leave it in the sun. Endless possibilities.

>>1125500
-go to the hardware store and look for a plank of wood with nice grain and some interesting knots.
-use wire brush on drill and go at the plank to bring out the ridges in the grain
-cut plank to size (the brush will bite when you get to the ends so cut after burshing)
-sand and round corners
- make a thin stain, rub it off the tops and let it pool in the valleys
-lacquer coat

>>1125510
>Go to beach, search for driftwood
this, if you near the coast - UK doesn't have beaches tho. Or an antique/junk shop, old wooden crate, or even a relatively new wooden crate would look better than your pic - a noice peice of driftwood will and would look 1000 times better than that, that has been artificially 'etsified', it looks false.

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>>1125516
>UK doesn't have beaches tho.

I guess I'm imagining Watcombe beach then... pic related. It's Watcombe beach.

Why do people want nice, new shit that looks like old, shitty shit?

I don't understand this trend. It's maddening.

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>>1125519
ha - look closer, its fake.

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After some time, scaffold boards become unsafe to use by scaffolding firms.

It is better for them to dispose of them when they are a bit worn, rather than risk an accident.

However, the timber is perfectly usable, and has generally achieved a nice worn in aged appearance.

Once sanded, waxed and/ or varnished it can look very nice.

This should be available to you extremely cheaply, as I pay only £5 for new 10ft boards, so secondhand should be no more than 20-30p a foot.


source - I am in construction.

>>1125525
My sides. That brilliant.

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Ten replies and not one suggested the correct answer.

>>1125500
Not pallets.

I'm in the UK.

I've dismantled pallets.

You will not find wood like that from pallets.

Continue at your own risk.

>>1125563
>using pallet wood in your home

>>1125528
You've never worked for a scaffold firm though.

>I'm in the UK
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>>1125510
What do with saltwater wood? In kansas but we pump saltwater froma ground all the time.

old barn wood? here in the usa, its sold at reclaiming shops and craigslist. not sure how the uk market works for old barn wood though

Local timber yard, not fucking Jewsons or a builders merchant a timber yard, call them up and ask if they have an offcuts bin and email them the picture, won't cost you more than a fiver.

>>1125567
How do you know that for sure?

>>1125500
barn wood. too bad you aren't closer or i could send you a bunch. been ripping down old tobacco kilns and have a ton of wood like that which i've just been using as fire wood so far

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>>1125596
>fire wood
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

>>1125563
Fuck you

>>1125500
search barn wood on your local craigslist or whatever

- or -

go out in the country, find a spooky old looking abandoned house with weeds grew up around it, and rip a board off the porch.

>>1125605
the companies that salvage barns and such around here don't pay shit and i'm not gonna try to sell it myself piece by piece. it's working out perfectly fine heating my house

>>1125500
If you have more money than sense b&q have started doing some waney edge boards. Not really like op, smooth faced but rough bark edges. Prepare your wallet and anus however

>>1125658
>Prepare your wallet and anus however
>>1125500
>girl asking

she probably gets it cheaper than you...

>>1125563
probably cheaper to just go an buy a 4' plank of knotty pine than drive around an industrial park looking for a pallet to steal

>>1125528
This.
I have dozens of ex scaffold 8x3 planks circa 1960's. Most of them made out if Red Deal

>>1125581
Because I have and nothing for scaffold firms is too damaged to repair or throw away. Bad bits are cut out and ends are re banded.

>>1125528

Scaffold boards got so popular here that actual old scaffold boards are more expensive than new :/

>>1125500

I wonder how they distressed wood that much. A bit of vinegar isn't going to break down the cellulose like that.

Leave it in a bath of hydrochloric/muriatic acid for a while?

>>1125563
/diy/ hates pallets as much as /g/ and /v/ hate the xbox one, as much as /sci/ hates free will, or as much as /pol/ hates... well just about everybody.
Personally, I like pallet wood, and I've got a bunch of stuff I've made with it.

>>1125965
>enjoy your 3-headed children, cancerfag.
IMO , the problem is more, people actually (no really) dont realise, they can go out and _buy_ wood, half as shit as pallet wood from a diy store, or, good stuff, direct lumberyard, whatever. They are under the impression, pallets are the only thing you can obtain, which, in the case of /diy/ here, lot of peeps maybe with no transport and little cash, may actually be true. They are inarguably the shittiest wood tho, thats why people throw the crap away.

>>1125970

New spruce/pine/fir wood costs less than putting 2 layers of good quality PU varnish on it.

I don't see how it ever makes much sense.

>>1125970
>>1125973

These people must live in some super sheltered shithole that doesn't have any hardware stores within miles. We kind of take it for granted here that you can walk into a hardware store and walk out with all the materials needed to build a house from scratch.

>>1125934
>nothing for scaffold firms is too damaged to repair or throw away

bullshit.
Maybe the knobjockeys you worked for.

Were they thick and/or ex cons?

Mate, my entire extended family is in construction, steel fixing, scaffolding, concreting etc.

I've forgotten more than you will ever know.

>>1125563
>suggesting pallets
>not providing any safety information

https://www.fix.com/blog/preparing-wood-pallets-for-upcycling/

>>1126015
Yeah okay mate. I suppose you ant your entire extended family have read the book on it?

Yeah fuck off.

>>1126036
Just admit you are LARPing.

You worked for 6 weeks at a scaffolding firm, and now you think you are billy big bollocks.

>>1125500
MODS
>where do i find a piece of wood?
you fucking autists we're being raided you faggots dont reply to this shit

>>1125506
Or a piece of flotsam off the beach.
Used to find broken remnants of wooden things on tbe beach all the time

>>1125563
Or you could just build a shipping container bunker

>>1125500
ive got some "wood" for you, if you know what i mean

>>1125954
>I wonder how they distressed wood that much.
The quickest, easiest way is to sandblast it.
After it's 'weathered' by the sandblasting, use a torch 'carefully' to dry and darken it further.
Then selected stains and topcoat

>>1126053
Who would raid us, we are a simple and wholesome board

>>1126137
No sand blaster - just pressure wash it with the nozzle close. Don't worry about contrast dying as the exposed wood cells from "distressing" will absorb dye at different rates. Repeat coats will further the contrast. The older, softer or shittier the wood, the more you can "distress".

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Op here

Visited the beach, it was pretty horrible weather but look what I found!

Thanks for recommending it.

Now how do I fix this thing up? It's 5cm deep & soaking wet, do I need to bleach it or something?

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>>1126598
Its color will lighten up substantially once it dries.
Dont do anything to it until its completely dry.
Driftwood is typically bleach white already when actually dry

>>1126598
Sand off all the chemical preservative and inhale the dust, then hit up etsy and buy want you want from someone who can make things

>>1126682
So you're saying you don't know what to do either?

Don't be ashamed anon

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>>1126685
Lol k

>>1126689
See that is what I'm trying to do, and you get mad at me?

>>1126692
not mad, just worried for your safety.
complicated projects like this is best left to pros

>>1126703
>complicated projects like this is best left to pros
>Literally some old rough sawn wood, butt jointed, and held together with dowels.

That would be a C+ in a high school wood shop, mate. And only if you managed to do it without injuring yourself. If you performed that feat as an adult, sure, good job, but complicated it ain't. You shouldn't have at least mitered the corners to hide the difference between the old and new saw marks.

>>1126704
>biting the bait this hard

wew laddy

>>1126050
Here's your (You)

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>>1126015
>using scaffolding at all....

Pic related.

I am the bionic man.

Just fucking kill me...

>>1127007
Are those some pocket hole screws I see?

>>1125573
Soaking untreated dry wood in saltwater and then leaving it out in the sun makes a cracked, ragged, grayish look. If you then lightly sand it and wipe it down with either resin or oil.. Hey presto. Faux stained driftwood.

>>1126015
> I've forgotten more than you will ever know.

I knew that line sounded familiar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M93kzAJykmQ

>>1125516
>UK doesn't have beaches tho
>an island with a 12,500km coastline doesn't have beaches

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>>1125500
>quick question
quick question ==/ quick answer

I see multiple ads a month where farmers are selling their barn wood off their old barn and they probably make more of Pinterest chicks than it cost to put the fucking thing up.

Do some digging. Those fagbook groups are great for this kind of stuff and you also get to see their pictures and try to figure out if they are going to murder you

>>1125500

Nice dub dubs but i don't see how you being female is relevant.

>>1126598
> It's 5cm deep & soaking wet, do I need to bleach it or something?

AYY

>>1125965
this is the greatest analogy I've seen in a while