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Best Lumber Choices for Cabinetry for Pasadena Woodworkers

As a Pasadena woodworker, selecting suitable lumber for cabinetry can be challenging. With so many species, grades, and cuts of lumber available, choosing the best wood for your project can be overwhelming.  Fortunately, Bohnhoff Lumber Co. has a wide variety of domestic and exotic hardwood lumber choices available at our lumber yard. Our knowledgeable staff is ready to help Pasadena woodworkers, select the best hardwood for their next woodworking project. However, if you would like to have an idea of what to buy before you go, this article will discuss some of the best lumber choices for cabinetry and what makes them an excellent choice for your woodworking project. What Should I Look for When Selecting a Wood To Use...

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Why Bohnhoff Offers the Best Milling Choice for Torrance Lumber Buyers

Our milling services are one of the best ways we provide an exceptional wood-buying experience. Bohnhoff Lumber Co. has been serving Los Angeles woodworkers, especially those in Torrance, for over a century. Through many decades, our business has preserved most of what woodworkers, furniture makers, contractors, and manufacturers love about our company.  However, in response to the evolving needs of our clients, we have added additional services.  Today, we are proud to provide our customers with the best lumber milling services in the city. At Bohnhoff Lumber Co., not only do we have a lumber yard that offers a vast selection of hardwoods, softwoods, plywood, and live edge slabs for your woodworking projects, but we also strive to ensure that...

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10 Reasons Why We Are the Best Woodworking Supply Store

Bohnhoff Lumber Co. has been a fixture in the Los Angeles business community for over a century. The company was established in 1910 by C.W. Bohnhoff, a German immigrant who initially settled with his parents in Saginaw, Michigan. As Los Angeles has grown over the last century, Bohnhoff Lumber company has grown with it. With the population growth, the need for housing and commercial property grew. This population boom increased the demand for lumber. Today, under the leadership of the fifth generation of Bohnhoffs, the company has brought over 100 years of tradition, experience, and success into this century. Today, it stands as a leading specialty supplier of hardwoods, and is now a go-to place for dedicated woodworkers and enthusiasts....

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Awesome Woodworking Projects You Can Create With Live Edge Wood Slabs

If you are looking for rustic furniture or decor that provides an old-timey cabin theme to your interior space, live edge wood slabs and cookies are the way to go! The free form of live edge wood slabs is what makes them unique and exceptional. With the raw beauty of live edge woods, your pieces will stand out and bring life to any space. What Are Live Edge Wood Slabs and Cookies? Request an Estimate Live edge wood slabs are exactly what they sound like. Instead of cutting the edges into straight boards, you get lumber that has not been cut, sanded, or processed to uniform sizes and shapes. When you see a "live edge" table, for instance, you will see...

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Iroko, Ipe, and Other Exotic Woods in Los Angeles Worth a Second Look

Dedicated woodworkers, artisans, and cabinetmakers are always looking for the ideal pieces of wood. Though domestic wood species, such as white oak, red oak, hard maple, and walnut, are excellent in their own right, woodworkers looking for a more unique piece will look for other options. These alternatives are available to woodworkers and artisans as exotics. The most popular exotics are teak, mahogany, and, for something closer to home, Tennessee cedar. However, choices are limited to what certain lumberyards can provide. Fortunately, Bohnhoff Lumber Co. offers a vast range of options in our lumber yard. Though we encounter challenges in sourcing these incredible species of exotics, we share in the love of fine woodworking by making the extra effort to...

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