Buy? [:0] Somebody got to the handle 'wood scavenger' before I did. I call most of my wood acquisition 'scrounging'. Friends who know I do things with wood will call and give me excess, I pick up at a place tree trimmers dump their waste. Trades are good. This week I decided to resaw some logs from a dead tree I felled in the woods behind my house last summer. Voila I found good, solid spalted stuff. Not sure what it is, hickory or oak, but sure is interesting. Yes, I do buy some but try to get larger hunks and resaw into pen blanks. Sometimes a $10.00 hunk of wood can be cut into quite a few blanks worth $1.00 to $5.00 each. My bandsaw and chain saw have paid for themselves several times over. [^]