The Florida Woodsmith
About The Florida Woodsmith
The Florida Woodsmith is a sawmill service for Gainesville and the surrounding area in North-Central Florida, in Alachua County. The owner says the work is primarily sawmilling: "I can come to your property and collect that log" and return it as lumber cut to your specifications. Species listed include ash, black oak, cherry, hickory, maple, pecan, cedar, cypress, poplar, pine and oak. Milling costs as little as $1.25 per linear foot, and logs yielding under 40 linear feet carry a $50 minimum. Logs need to be at least 10 inches across at the smaller end and cut to lengths between 6 and 12 feet, with about 6 extra inches for end checking. Seal the cut ends right away, or have the owner do it for $2 per end. If you bring the log to the mill yourself, you can pick up the green lumber, sticker it and dry it, and the price is lower. The business also buys logs from tree services and land clearing, priced by the ton or by the load, with the price negotiable. Slab flattening, trimming and edging, joining slabs and epoxy work are also offered. Shop services are temporarily unavailable after a workshop fire in June 2025, while the owner looks for a property to move the sawmill to. The owner has 20 years of woodworking in the Gainesville area. It is a one-person business that sometimes works offsite, so some days may not be available. This suits a landowner with a few felled or cleared trees near Gainesville who wants lumber cut to their own dimensions and is willing to dry it themselves. From floridawoodsmith.com, read 18 October 2026.
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