Woodies Woodshop

3307 Merchant Court, Wilmington, NC 28405, phone 910-350-3550, woodieswoodshop.com

 

Woody’s sells lumber, slabs, marine plywood, bowl and pen blanks in dozens of different species including sapele, afrormosia, wenge, bubinga, yellowheart, redheart, teak, iroko, pau rosa, pau amarillo, coco bolo, spalted tamarind, bocote, zircote, leopardwood, east Indian rosewood, chakte viga, Roman olivewood, chakte coc and others. Domestic species include a varying selection of walnut, red oak, white oak, hickory, ash, gum, hard maple, quilted maple, curly maple, spalted maple, birdseye maple, cypress, cedar and others. They also carry marine-grade okoume plywood. Call first as hours of operation sometime vary.

 

Fitzgerald Lumber

4022 Market St., Wilmington, NC 28403, phone 910-815-2900, fitzgeraldwood.com

 

They carry a large variety of exotic and domestic lumber and plywood. In addition to lumber, they sell siding, decking, flooring, etc. They say they can also locate hard-to-find species and rare widths and thickness. We specialize in Mahogany and keep vast inventory in stock.

 

Rugby Architectural Building Products

3002 Corporate Dr., Wilmington, NC 28405, phone 910-794-7225, www.rugbyabp.com

 

This wholesale lumberyard largely serving cabinetmakers will sell in small quantities at retail and stocks several varieties of hardwood and specialty plywood, along with Euro cabinet hardware. The Wilmington branch of this national company is located just inside I-140/I-40, northeast of Wilmington airport. The regional catalog states this branch carries alder, hickory, oak, maple, cherry, walnut, poplar, birch and basswood in 4/4 and 8/4 and numerous imported species including sapele, teak, lacewood, wenge and others. Also sells veneers and edge-banding.

 

SpecialWood

3927 Blue Clay Rd., Castle Hayne, NC 38429, phone 910-675-1000, www.specialwood.com

 

This massive lumber wholesaler and mill will in fact sell directly to hobbyists. They are not equipped to sell a single board as you have to write up a ticket, go to the appropriate warehouse, the forklift operator retrieves the appropriate pallet(s) of wood, you select, they write it up, you pay, then you pick up . . . so if you want to buy a goodly amount of rough cherry, hard or soft maple, African mahogany, and a few other hardwoods, the prices are good. They could also surface it down from rough with an advance order. It is not necessarily the finest grade quarter-sawn hardwood, but a superb regional resource run by friendly people. Also stock some rough timbers and slabs (which are easier to see/inspect).