From: delcecchi@gmail.com   
      
   "Chilla"  wrote in message   
   news:4b5d3d37$0$5421$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...   
   > Del Cecchi wrote:   
   >> Charles, where do you live?  I get the impression it is someplace   
   >> where shipping from minnesota USA would be pretty expensive, but we   
   >> have a lot of poplar around.   
   >>   
   >> del   
   >   
   > Yep, Australia.   
   >   
   > I have bought wood from Canada, 5 Yew billets for bow making.  I did   
   > a deal with the gent with the wood so that the postage wouldn't kill   
   > me (it was pretty horrible).   
   >   
   > Is this sheet form or blocks?  I have a contact that is able to   
   > wheel and deal with our quarrantine department, so it's not off the   
   > table :-)   
   >   
   >   
   > Regards Charles   
   >   
      
   It is everything from trees on down.  A number of the local lumber   
   stores sell poplar boards as well.   
      
   Northern Minnesota is basically covered with poplar trees and there   
   are a number of small sawmills as well.  Mostly the trees get made   
   into paper or oriented strand board, although not so much now that the   
   housing boom has busted.   
      
   googling "poplar boards" seems to turn up a number of places that also   
   sell them.   
      
   del   
      
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