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I'm looking to buy some quality baltic birch that I can use in my CNC router that is nice and flat, not bowed, curled or warped. Looking at this listing on fleabay,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/303293779861it looks like a good price and might be alright quality. That particular size is just right for the 200x300 bed on my router. I expect some chunks will only be usable for non-critical stuff or in small pieces, and I'll have to sort it by flatness and assign different purposes to the different groups. I'm hoping to end up with a decent percentage that's flat enough for fins and other stuff that matters (like fin-jigging centering rings, for example).
It concerns me that a place selling chunks like that might be a shop that uses a lot for their own work, and is just packaging scrap or (dun-dun-dun) stuff that didn't meet their quality standards and slanging it on fleabay to the unsuspecting.
Has anyone bought from that seller? Or have other recommendations for sourcing?
I included a six-pack of Midwest 3/32 five-ply aircraft plywood in a Black Friday order and it was some of the most warped plywood I've ever seen. Losing a dozen bucks to ship it back to the seller and get a refund.
I'd totally go and sort through a stack of the stuff at a brick and mortar store the way I do for balsa and bass sheets if I'd seen any in a brick and mortar store that was even of a quality to be worth sorting.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/303293779861it looks like a good price and might be alright quality. That particular size is just right for the 200x300 bed on my router. I expect some chunks will only be usable for non-critical stuff or in small pieces, and I'll have to sort it by flatness and assign different purposes to the different groups. I'm hoping to end up with a decent percentage that's flat enough for fins and other stuff that matters (like fin-jigging centering rings, for example).
It concerns me that a place selling chunks like that might be a shop that uses a lot for their own work, and is just packaging scrap or (dun-dun-dun) stuff that didn't meet their quality standards and slanging it on fleabay to the unsuspecting.
Has anyone bought from that seller? Or have other recommendations for sourcing?
I included a six-pack of Midwest 3/32 five-ply aircraft plywood in a Black Friday order and it was some of the most warped plywood I've ever seen. Losing a dozen bucks to ship it back to the seller and get a refund.
I'd totally go and sort through a stack of the stuff at a brick and mortar store the way I do for balsa and bass sheets if I'd seen any in a brick and mortar store that was even of a quality to be worth sorting.