I don't know what market you are in, but here in NJ the HD hardwood is
awful. Bowed, wany... Do we get the awful ****. Probably.

Maybe in your market you are getting better stuff. But here when I say
pretzel, I mean it's too bent, or twisted to use. And for the price you
pay (linear foot), you have to do too much work to it. So why would I
need to cleanup a s4s piece. Well if it were straight and not twisted I
wouldn't have to. I am not impressed with their wood.

As far as the ply. I had bought 7 sheets of maple cab ply a few years
ago , when I got it home it just bowed. I had only walked it down the
stairs and was amazed at how it bowed. I have not been able to
straighten it out. I should have returned it. I recently bought cab
grade ply and it too curled.

I have a rack for ply, and it keeps it straight up, and the rack is
true. But I have to get it to the rack.. and in both cases it curled
before I made it to the rack. Not too mention the major voids in the cab
ply that I got. Or major fills that I didn't notice. Whatever that vinyl
like fill is that they use.

On 4/10/2012 2:14 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Jack wrote:
On 4/10/2012 12:33 PM, tiredofspam wrote:


High Quality is straight and not twisted. These HD crap are
already surfaced on four sides. How can you clean them up if they are
twisted like pretzels.


I have bought hardwood from Home Depot and I worked their for 4 1/2 years.
In all of my experiences, I never saw a piece of hardwood twisted like a
pretzel. I never even saw a truly bad piece of hardwood. I wonder why you
feel the need to "clean up" a piece of S4S in the first place? I have to
ask if the poster of this statement has really ever seen that - or how many
times? Did you find one piece that was junk? I find it hard to believe
that you have consistently found that to be the case. This stuff is
purchased at the corporate contract level and each store receives pretty
much the same stuff, so it is not likely that any one store is selling some
inferior product. This statement receives my esteemed Bull**** award.


They are not twisted, they don't need cleaned up. Very good stuff.

Correct.


All the ply I got from HD twisted
like a pretzel. How stable is a piece of ply that has a huge bow in
it... Pretty stable. I can't get it flat again.


I think I would check into my shop wood storage practices if I were you. It
seems everything you buy twists up like a pretzel. How is it that this wood
does not twist up in their stores, but it does once you get it home? The
stores are not terribly climate controlled so whatever you see on the floor
is pretty much what you will have when you get it home. Pretzels?