I’m new to wood working and am looking for relatively cheap sources of wood and was wondering if anybody has ever used used liquor barrels. Are these even cheap? I’d probably use it to make small furniture or planters. Anything I should know in particular or resources I could look into? Thanks!
Definitely not cheaper than other sources of scrap wood. Aging barrels are typically reused (except for certain kinds of liquor where prohibited by law, in which case they get reused to age a different kind of spirit). Once they’re no longer useful for that purpose, they’ll be reprocessed into other products (Jim Beam sells their old barrels as whiskey-flavored wood chips for smokers) or sold to third parties.