Crosscut Hardwoods

Great selection, my friends from other cities were surprised that some of the cuts and varieties they have even exist. This isn’t the place to go to learn about wood or have the home depot guy hold your hand. I think the front desk guy gave me a quarter head nod as a greeting as I rolled in. There is little information about how lumber is priced, grades, etc., this is a place for people who know what they are doing. Which I am not. So I went with a small order first to make sure I wasn’t going to spend thousands of dollars, by the third trip I had the hang of it.
Feel free to go in, sort through the boards, check out the lumber. You’ll see some amazing stuff that doesn’t exist anywhere else I’m aware of. Then be ready to provide your own customer service and load your own wood. It’s not going to be cheap, but it’s good stuff.

I have bought multiple solid wood countertops in all three of their wood choices and have never been disappointed. Crosscut Hardwoods has both the best product and price for solid butcher block. It comes pre finished and ready to install and they deliver for free. Customer service is excellent over the phone, making it easy to order what you need, and have it delivered without needing to go in store.

Excellent selection and a very helpful sales staff, even to absolute beginners. Also, local students get discount!

10% student discount for woodworking students at SCCC (maybe other woodworking schools too) and a great selection of lumber makes me a very happy girl.
They are more than willing to help me find wood I’m looking for, make suggestions on types of wood to use based on my end product, and will rough cut long lumber to length, etc. They just need to keep 6 board feet of wood from anything they cut. They’ll even let you buy wood now and come back and pick it up later. I overheard a conversation and it sounded like they might even deliver your lumber to you.
Other perks — they have dog treats behind the counter, gave my dog water on a hot day, and didn’t mind my dog chilling on the cool concrete floor while I shopped. Though the floor is kinda dusty (as evidenced by the dirt my dog picked up from the concrete), the store isn’t nearly as dusty smelling as Home Depot.

My dad is a big woodworker focusing mostly on puzzles, games and toys. I’ll find myself wandering around the warehouse on the phone with him asking what he’d like me to bring back to Montana. The ability to cut smaller pieces off to be used in projects is absolutely fantastic. I am able to bring back an assortment of goodies in the trunk of my Subaru.
Even if you’re only a casual woodworker like I am, you’ll be awed by this place.

With the holiday season rapidly approaching, it is time, once again, to start thinking about what you’re going to get for those on your list. For me, as I’m sure it is for a lot of you (this year especially), with the economy on the decline, money is tight. This is where hand crafted, homemade gifts can be perfect and a tad bit lighter on the wallet.
Lately, I’ve been in a constant state of experimentation/​development of my woodworking skills. To implement this growth toward crafting Christmas gifts, I headed on down to Crosscut Hardwoods to pick up some cool exotic woods for these projects. I hear about this place all the time from my coworkers, but up until now, I’ve always just worked with woods I could snag from the trash pile at work (mostly domestics, a few exotics).
My, oh, my. This place is a woodworkers dream. They have a huge selection of both domestic and exotic hardwoods, veneers, plywoods, and flooring. With the amount of wood this place carries, it can be a bit overwhelming. Lucky for us, the staff here is friendly (a little zany) but very helpful nonetheless. They even knew a couple of the guys I work (ed) with over the past few years making furniture. Which in turn gained me a 10% discount on my purchase.
I walked out of here with some very nice zebra wood and some koa, all at a very reasonable price. These exotic woods can be a bit pricey, especially at the specialty stores. It’s good to know there are places like Crosscut that allow you to buy these fine woods and not have to break the bank to do so.

Every exotic wood you could ever need. Big, small, different sizes of plywoods! You could build anything you’d ever want! I’m building stuff now, 16 of them to start. Wanna know what it is? Wanna get on the waiting list for one? The first batch SOLD OUT already. You’ll be the envy of all your peers with one of these custom made beauties. Don’t pass it up!

Seriously, maybe it was just bad timing, but we had the crappiest service, ever. And really, it wasn’t very busy at all. Whoever the guy was didn’t communicate to us at all after we asked questions. Instead, he walked around, more involved in helping his co-​workers help their customers instead of helping us. As we got extremely pissed and walked out (it took him a while to realize we were out the door), he comes running out after us to half-​assedly apologize.
We came here on a recommendation, and sure, they may have great product, but their service was so incredibly shitty, we never got to find out and don’t ever care to.

A warehouse full of wood. A woodworker’s dream. Memories of the sawdust smell from this place keep me up at night. They have a huge selection of wood and are very helpful at finding you just what you need. Certainly worth stopping in.

99.9% of Woodworkers in Seattle know what this place is. It is probably Seattle’s best place to get exotic hardwoods, their Domestics are amazing too. I would say Compton’s has a better selection for Domestics, but Comptons is more expensive. The service is friendly, and very personal, sort of like a mom and pop’s. The cabinet-​grade plywood selection, and veneers are vast. Watch out for their special offerings too, such as live-​edge Jatoba and closeout woods good for stocking up to make jigs.
When you go there, look for Craig Berrysmith, he’ll always cut you a special deal and also a trained cabinetmaker. Tell him that Asian guy — Tom sent yah!