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   BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 11:18:12 JST BowserNoodle ☦️
   I got hooked up on "cull" lumber today. Most of the 2x4s are nicer quality than the regular stuff they had on the shelf. Every piece I bought had 3 great sides and was straight and true, which is something I can't say for even "premium" lumber at big box stores these days. I'm going to build a new work bench and I'll use the gnarly spots as braces underneath the top.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 11:28:27 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     • FourOh-LLC
     @FourOh-LLC That's great man! I almost never mess with steel, but is it actually hard to find decent pieces? Lumber has been complete 💩 for the past few years at least at blue, orange, or green stores. There's barely any lumber yards left either, which makes it worse.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 11:28:28 JST FourOh-LLC

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     I wen to to a local machine shop and most of their 1/4 inch steel stock has 6 perfect sides, straight and true. I gonna build myself a new work bench, pouring cement at the center to make it as heavy as fuck so it stays where I put it.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 11:46:27 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @FourOh-LLC Interesting. Thanks for the recommendation. My buddy and I got a big bucket of scrap steel for knife making for like $5 from a muffler shop. It's amazing what you can get when you just ask and places are happy to get some off the books cash for their scrap.
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     FourOh-LLC (fouroh-llc@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 11:46:28 JST FourOh-LLC

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     Go to a local machine shop, tool and die shop, welder shop and pay upfront. They have drops of fresh stock metal and sometimes they have dead stock.
     
     I built a few of these with cement shoes, and I started doing it when someone insisted to buy the one I used at the time. Its not a business, its more likely a conversation topic.
     
     If you weld this is a must, but I also cast aluminum and do other perilous stuff that's hot and or noisy.