The following lists contain places personally recommended by a club member. For updates and additions please contact Frank Ramsay frankramsay8@aol.com
Hida Tool & Hardware, Berkeley. 510-524-3700 hidatool.com Japanese hand tools, kitchen knives, and Bonsai gardening tools. (Jim Voos)
Woodline/Japan Woodworker, Alameda. 800-537-7820 japanwoodworker.com Japanese Hand Tools. Good finishing and sharpening supplies. (Jim Voos)
Soko Hardware, San Francisco 415-931-5510. A variety of Japanese tools and planes, some of which are not available from other suppliers. (Terry O'Donnell)
Luthier's Mercantile International. Healdsburg. 800-477-4437 lmii.com. Tools and woods for instrument makers. (Terry O'Donnell)
Robert Larson Company. San Francisco. 800-356-2195. rlarson.com (Terry O'Donnell, Arnie Champagne)
Woodcraft Supply. Dublin. (925) 875-9988. (Mike Cooper)
Woodcraft Supply. San Carlos 650-631-WOOD. (Eric McCrystal)
Rockler. Pleasant Hill 925.521.1800 Pleasant Hill. (Steve McCarthy)
C.B. Tool & Supply, 90 Karina Court, San Jose, (408)436-0707 or 1-800-662-9858. cbtoolgroup.com Conventional but large woodworking tool supply company. (George Bosworth)
Tooland. San Carlos. tooland.com Focuses a little more on tools for contractors than on fine woodworking, but offers much wider variety than the Home Depot style of store. (Jamie Buxton)
MacBeath. Largest hardwood retailer I know of in the Bay area. Branches in Berkeley, San Jose, and SF. Berkeley branch also stocks Baltic Birch and Finn-ply plywoods. macbeath.com (Jamie Buxton)
EarthSource Forest Products (used to be called PALS). Tired of plywood from big-box stores that's curled up like a potato chip? Buy from a store that sells to cabinet shops. PThey have stores in the Oakland and San Francisco, and have a good selection of flat hardwood sheetgoods. They also sell hardwood lumber. earthsourcewood.com (Jamie Buxton)
Baker Milling. Mills, air-dries, and sells local hardwoods in rough-sawn slab form. Gilroy. bakerhardwoods.com (Jamie Buxton)
Southern Lumber, 1402 S. First St., San Jose, 408-294-1487 southernlumber.com Large selection of domestic and imported hardwoods, mostly S4S and expensive. (George Bosworth)
Aura Hardwood Lumber, 210 Phelan Ave., San Jose, 408-275-1990. Most hardwoods. Stock fluctuates widely. (George Bosworth)
Global Wood Source. Northern Hardwoods bit the dust, but some of the folks from there have opened this store. 376 Reed St Santa Clara, Ca 95050 globalwoodsource.com. (Neal White)
Groff & Groff. Lumberyard in Pennsylvania with high quality cherry. Even with freight charges, they are price competitive with Bay Area dealers. globalwoodsource.com (Jerry Robinson)
Whitethorne Construction mills and dries native hardwood in Humboldt County. www.whitethornconstruction.com
Van Arsdale Harris Lumber specializes in West Coast softwoods, in cabinet-quality wood, not the construction stuff from the big box stores. They're in San Francisco, not far from Candlestick. vanarsdaleharris.com (Jamie Buxton)
California Urban Lumber mills and sells lumber from trees cut by local municipalities or tree service companies in Northern California. They also do custom Milling. CalUrbanLumber.com (Per Madsen)
Sartor Saw Works. 220 Bayshore Blvd, SF 94133 415.282.6093. (Jamie Buxton)
The Carbide Shop is no longer in business in Redwood City. However, they have a pickup arrangement at Woodcraft San Carlos. Every Tuesday they pick up your dull tools from Woodcraft, and return them sharpened on the next Tuesday. (Jamie Buxton)
Standard Saw. 181 10th St. Oakland, CA 510-832-0856 (Mike Cooper)
Bay Area Carbide. 1843 East Street, Concord, CA 94520 . bayareacarbide.com (Mike Cooper)
Builders Booksource. A bookstore for architects and builders. It has the largest woodworking section I've encountered in the Bay area. Berkeley. buildersbooksource.com (Jamie Buxton)
William Stout Architectural Books. A terrific small shop packed with interesting books. They specialize in architecture, design, and graphics. Don't miss the basement, where much of the wood stuff is. San Francisco. stoutbooks.com (Jamie Buxton)
Blair Glenn's primary business is Saratoga Tree Service, in Campbell. 408 866-7200 saratogatreeservice.com He also has a band mill and turns some trunks into lumber. If you're taking down a big tree and want to build furniture from it, he's a good place to start. His lumber stock depends on what trees he's encountered recently. I've seen ash, walnut, pear, redwood, valley oak, and live oak. (Jamie Buxton)
Woodshop at Palo Alto High School, 650-329-3752 paadultschool.org Beginner classes and woodshop availability on semester basis. (George Bosworth)
BAWA Member Marcus Miller teaches a woodworking course at Palo Alto Adult School wmmiller2@yahoo.com
Woodshop courses at Sequoia High School in Redwood City. 650.306.8866 adultschool.seq.org (Mike Roth)
Woodworking Technology courses at Laney College, particularly those of Jay Van Arsdale. laney.peralta.cc.ca.us (Bill Mannix)
Woodworking courses at The College of the Redwoods. redwoods.cc.ca.us This program, founded by James Krenov, has produced many of the country's finest crafts people. It also has shorter courses for people who are not full-time woodworkers. (Bud Ruby and Arnie Champagne)
Wood courses at the Crucible. thecrucible.org. The Crucible is mostly known for metal work, but has some wood courses too.
Courses by David Marks. djmarks.com You may remember David from a talk he gave at BAWA in 2003. He also has a TV show. He now teaches courses in his studio
Randall Museum. randallmuseum.org Courses for children and for adults. Our own Mike Bray teaches there. (Mike Bray)
Woodcraft and Rockler. These retail stores, listed above in the Tools section, often offer short woodworking courses and demonstrations. For current offerings, go to their national web sites and drill down to the local stores.
Courses by John McCormack. johnpmccormack.com
Spaulding Wooden Boat Center, Sausalito spauldingcenter.org Teaches yacht restoration, tradional boat building and other educational programs
The Sawdust Shop offers a very well-equipped wood shop for use by its patrons. They also run courses. www.thesawdustshop.com. (Craig Colvin)Gallery M. A gallery specializing in studio furniture and fine woodwork. gallerym.net Half Moon Bay.
Recent BAWA speakers and hosts
Steve Smith. www.woodrestoration.com Steve produces glues for repairing damaged wood.
The Craftsman Home. www.thecraftsmanhome.com. Sells antique and reproduction Craftsman furniture and home decor.
Roger Heitzman. www.heitzmanstudios.com. Roger designs and builds custom furniture.
Keith Stephens. www.woodworkerssource.net Keith imports and sells hardwood, and is particularly interested in sustainable forestry.
Jamie Buxton. www.jamiebuxton.com Jamie is a BAWA member, and designs and builds custom furniture.
Lowes. Loews is one of the largest builder stores in the country.
Berkeley Mills. . They manufacture finely crafted furniture.
Michael Cullen. www.michaelcullendesign.com Michael make gorgeous furniture.
Ejler Hjorth-Westh. www.mendocinowoodworking.com Ejler makes beautiful furniture, and teaches in the College of the Redwoods woodworking program
Greg Zall. gregzall.com Greg does remarkable marquetry and furniture, and teaches at the California College of Arts and Crafts ccac-art.edu
Hock Tools. Ron Hock makes high-quality blades for hand planes. hocktools.com
Don Naples. Our own Don Naples invented and sells a sharpening machine woodartistry.com
David Marks. David has a show on TV, and makes fine furniture. djmarks.com
Arques School of Traditional Boat Building. Building and teaching about building wooden boats. arqueschl.org
Kevin Fryer. Kevin makes spectacular harpsichords kevinfryer.net
Dan Stalzer. Dan makes Appalachian-style chairs in Ft Bragg, and teaches how to make them. woodwman@mcn.org
Brian Condran. Brian makes beautiful furniture. crfinefurniture.com/condran.html
The Sawdust Shop. Our own Craig Colvin The Sawdust Shop, which provides woodshop time on a membership basis. thesawdustshop.com
Jared Rusten. Jared builds furniture in San Jose. jrusten.com/index.php
Debey Zito. Debey designs new furniture in the Arts & Crafts style. artisticlicense.org/members/zito/
Robert Meier. Robert and his brother Christian build furniture in Aptos. mbfurnituredesign.com/
Ken Forden. He's with Whitethorne Construction, which produces native hardwoods in Humboldt County. whitethornconstruction.com
John McCormack. Furniture Designer, Maker & Teacher johnpmccormack.com
The BAWA classified ads are intended to advertise items of woodworking interest to our members that are for sale in the greater Bay Area. Members are entitled to advertise any items at no cost. Categories include For Sale, Wanted, Free Stuff or Workshop sharing. Non-members, who are private parties, may advertise items for $10 per month. The newsletter editor will have the discretion to decide the suitability of any submissions.
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2/2012: Free Delta Uniguard model 34-976 Table Saw
Current listed at $289.99 at Amazon.com. Please call 408-254-1175 for more details.
1/2012: Free ShopSmith lathe and Bandsaw
My father was a woodworker building furniture for family and friends. His equipment is old but I'm wondering if anyone would think it useful. There is an old Band Saw and ShopSmith lathe.
This equipment is free to a good home if the new owner can show up in Hayward.
Contact: lynders00@comcast.net or telephone: 253-709-0059
12/2011: Shop Space to share in San Francisco
Wanted: woodworker(s) to share professionally-equipped woodworkings shop in San Francisco's Yosemite building which houses many other woodworking shops and artisans of glass, painting, sculpture. The shop and equipment can be viewed at: brucepowellwoodworking.com/shop.html
For full time use and a dedicated work table rent will be about $500/month, and for half-time use around $300/month.
Contact Bruce Powell, (415) 305-8962 bruce_powell@earthlink.net.
Wood working tools for sale
Homework shop located in San Rafael CA. being closed.
In addition to the primary pieces of equipment shown here there are numerous other power hand tools and a number of hand tools.
The following represents a "sample" of what is available....
Summit Drill Press
Delta 10" tilting arbor saw w/accessories
Rockwell Planer (10" )
Sears Craftsman Band saw
Workforce 10" miter saw
18"-20"...Chop Saw
Mikita 14" Portable Cut off saw
Reliant.....10 X 5 stone grinder
Englo Air compressor
Routers
Hand saws
Hand sanders
Mikita (battery) drills
Biscuit cutter
Ladders
Variety of tool cases w/ equipment
Power cords
For more information please feel free to contact Tim Hoppen. Tel: 510-769-5124cthoppen01@aol.com
Cabinet Shop Liquidation - Tools for Sale
Tools used less than one year; all in barely-used excellent condition.
Grizzly GO1023S 10" Right-Tilt Table Saw, 220V single-phase
7' Rails (52" Rip)
Grizzly G4227 Sliding Table
Forrest Woodworker II Blade
Shop Fox Mobile Base
Worth $1900 new
Selling for $1300 or best offer
Dewalt DW7670 8" Dado Set, Excellent Condition-Sharp
Worth $90, selling for $50
Contact Andre Bilodeau, American Canyon, CA, 650-703-0558: aebilodeau@yahoo.com
Come by, see them, make an offer!
For Sale
Portable Miter Saw Stand, Stablemate by IOWA Mfg., contractor rated, $50.
Contact John Wilson, 650-365-6336: jwilson80@att.net
Shop Space
9/2011, Shop space available at Nexus Artisans, 1284 West Grand Ave, Oakland. The shop is approximately 6000 square feet and is well equipped. The rent for a full space is $665/month, and a half space is $332.50. Contact Daniel Caraco, 510-306-8644, caraco@igc.orgcaraco@igc.org