I visited for the first time yesterday. I really wanted to like this place. They have lots of lovely wood and it is decently priced.
Unfortunately I've got to talk about the complimentary services. The employee there that day was cutting my selections down into specific lengths for me and he offered to straightline my boards with the panel saw at the store. I accepted and didn't check his work afterwards because I assumed he would be competent. In the attached pictures you can see that every edge was burnt all to heck. Each edge has several uneven places where he wiggled either the board or the saw. On one of the boards, it looks like he took it off the panel saw while the blade was still spinning, because it's deeply gouged at an angle.
He also took 3/8" for each straightline. The boards were not that crooked. He could have taken off 1/8-3/16" and gotten a straight edge, but instead he took more than double that. It makes me wonder if he did multiple passes to try and fix sloppy cuts. And now I've still got to take another 1/8" off just to fix his mistakes. So that's 1/2 an inch gone on every board.
I'm deeply...
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