Almost 40 years ago, a real estate developer made me “an offer I couldn’t refuse” on the Barney & Carey lumber yard at the Neponset River in Milton. The deal included them building me a brand new, much larger, turnkey facility at the old quarries in Quincy. After...
This is a pretty basic concept for all of our professional customers; however, there are a lot of newcomers to woodworking and carpentry who find it confusing when they are just getting into it. What Is S4S Lumber? For starters, a standard “2×4” does NOT measure...
Understanding Rough Lumber We sell a lot of rough lumber, both hardwoods and softwoods, at Barney & Carey, and customers ask a lot of questions about it. As a rule of thumb, hardwoods are best kiln dried, as are finish softwoods used for trim, furniture, and...
When our website manager asked me to write about this topic, I was very happy to do it! The question of which type of store is better is not an easy one to answer, nor is one type the clear-cut winner. Over the years, I have had plenty of experience with both...
While our experts do a lot of furniture restoration, we rarely get to work on a piece that is almost 150 years old! We were recently entrusted by the Archives Coordinator of the City of Quincy’s Thomas Crane Library to restore a table that was built at the same...
Over the decades, I have found the one major thing that distinguishes exceptional houses from the plain and ordinary: the moldings. When I first started remodeling and building in the early 1970’s, door and window casings were either clamshell (ranch) or...
