All about wood

[desdawg]

Everything you always wanted to know and weren't the least bit afraid to ask is answered here. This is one of the most comprehensive sites I have seen on the topic of wood.
http://www.woodweb.com/
The Knowledge Base section has a tremendous amount of information about everything from milling and drying to fine cabinetry and furniture making.
http://www.woodweb.com/KnowledgeBase/KBIndex.html

[Sassy]

That's a nice site - just browsed through the gallery of a few of the projects that were posted.  

[desdawg]

I was led there by a member of another forum who was referring to how to mill the best grade lumber from a log.
http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base_images/zp/simplified_procedure_grade_lumber.pdf
Then I started looking at all of the other info found there. Wow!

[glenn kangiser]

Great sawing PDF, desdawg.  The ideas there should help with any wood.  

Charlie Wing published a book with good info too.  "From The Ground Up" has good rough sawn lumber strength tables and sawing - warpage info and more.  It is only available used I think.

[Amanda_931]

I guess there are a bunch of places to get used/remainder books on line--Amazon is one--and it's soooo easy!  Alibris is another, they sometimes have stuff from Powell's, or you can go direct to Powell's.   With alibris you are buying from individuals/stores all over the country.  Powell's may mostly be from one of the Powell's stores.  If one source seems to be pricing everything as if it were a rare and valuable first edition, one of the others may have what's called "a good reading copy" e.g., ex-library, for not much more than shipping.

www.alibris.com

http://www.powells.com/

Powell's is happy to sell you a copy of George Monbiot's Heat which is available in Canada, but not the U.S. at the moment.  (If you lived in England, in order to make the country sustainable, you'd have to as a country reduce your carbon usage by something awful like 90 per cent within the next 15 years--Monbiot goes into details.  He loathes airplanes, but may be otherwise generous about oil supplies.  According to the reviews I've been seeing.)