Tried Googling lumberyards in the Los Angeles area, looks like Home Depot or Lowes only? Does anybody know where to purchase the more exotic woods in the Los Angeles...
aesimpleton replied:
Try [this.](http://www.woodfinder.com/)
brokeneckblues replied:
[House of Hardwood](http://houseofhardwood.com/) is really nice but a bit pricy. [Anawalt Lumber](http://www.anawaltlumber.com/) is has some cheaper stuff that's decent
Gurneydragger replied:
There are a couple great places down in Orange County. Orange Coast Lumber is good and Austin Hardwoods and Hardware is great.
hibikikun replied:
austin is great, one of the only lumberyards open on a weekend. unfortunately i wish there was something like it in LA.
Yarffa replied:
Woodcraft has been serving me well recently for exotics. I've never been out west to know the details of locale through the state but they do have a few stores in CA and they do ship if you have no other option. It can't hurt to take a look as some woods are uniform enough so that shipping wouldn't be a complete annoyance.
jlpoole replied:
I used to know Paul PenBerthy, he was in my investment club. His company, PenBerthy Lumber, was the largest wood importer on the West Coast. Their operation was huge and they were wholesale only. I remember buying mahogany from them for a restoration of a Greene Greene home and walking into the building where it was stored... there were mountains of looking like something out of Nepal. Teak? from which region? it was incredible.
And then the company disappeared; it looks like today some relative have tried to keep the company name going at a different location but it does not appear to be anything like what it had been.
Unfortunately, I do not know what happened, I basically left that world (Pasadena society) and have limited contact with a few dependable friends. How it could have collapsed is really a mystery unless all their inventory was financed or became collateral that was eventually liquidated. It's very sad to see a thriving operation like that disappear. Perhaps it was because the local wholesale demand (furniture manufacturing) dried up?
jlpoole replied:
[Arroyo Hardwoods](http://www.arroyohardwoods.com/) in Pasadena. I remember when this company first opened.
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