Looking for some cheap blanks

Signed-In Members Don't See This Ad
Joined
Jan 10, 2021
Messages
71
Location
Weslaco Texas
I Need to make 60 pens for a give-away event and I am looking for some inexpensive blanks- any kind of wood. I will be making slim line pens. Let me know what you've got. Thanks,
Ron
 
Signed-In Members Don't See This Ad

Fred Bruche

Member
Joined
Feb 11, 2018
Messages
972
Location
Philadelphia 19146
Cook Woods is running a sale on pen blanks today, $0.45 for maple blanks, $0.49 for claro walnut. Is that the price range you had in mind? The cheapest would probably to get some lumber from a local lumberyard (no shipping costs) and cut the blanks yourself.
 

Edgar

New Member Advocate
Staff member
Joined
Feb 6, 2013
Messages
6,890
Location
Alvin, TX 77511
If it's a charitable event, I can send you 20+ blanks for the cost of shipping (about $8).

Edgar
 
Joined
Jan 10, 2021
Messages
71
Location
Weslaco Texas
If it's a charitable event, I can send you 20+ blanks for the cost of shipping (about $8).

Edgar
Edgar

Exactly how many do you have in mind when you say 20+? I live in a Continuing Care Facility which does not allow us to tip the employees. So, each year they have a Christmas Party and I will be giving a pen to each of the employees as my way pf thanking them for the care that they give us all year. Charitable? I guess this would quality.

Ron
 
Joined
Jan 10, 2021
Messages
71
Location
Weslaco Texas
Cook Woods is running a sale on pen blanks today, $0.45 for maple blanks, $0.49 for claro walnut. Is that the price range you had in mind? The cheapest would probably to get some lumber from a local lumberyard (no shipping costs) and cut the blanks yourself.
Fred,

Thanks for the heads up. Will consider your suggestion.

Ron
 

penicillin

Member
Joined
Feb 27, 2019
Messages
1,036
My local Rockler sells lumber by the board-foot. They will sell you any length cut off from either end of a board by the board-foot, as long as the remaining board is 4 foot or longer. I get many inexpensive pen blanks by buying one foot of several exotic woods like purpleheart and padauk, etc. They are typical "4/4" boards, which are 3/4 or 13/16 inch thick. I cut pen blanks from those small boards on the bandsaw. I like to leave the boards intact and cut pen blanks as needed, just in case I have a need for thin strips or other uses. This approach saves a lot of money compared with buying the ready-made pen blanks in the little cubbyholes.

I don't know if other Rocklers have the same policy, nor do I know whether other woodworking stores like Woodcraft do it, but it works for me.
 
Last edited:
Top Bottom