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If you’re in the SF Bay Area and like secondhand stores, you owe it to yourself to visit Urban Ore. It’s a secondhand store with a focus on building material. Things to check out include:

- a section for doors, if you want it, they have it

- the outdoor bathroom fixtures

- their tool section

I visit about once a year and enjoy seeing the weird things that accumulate there.

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It's also worth checking out MacBeath Hardwoods across the street if you do any woodworking. They've got a good selection of exotic hardwoods that are just gorgeous. I've gotten Bolivian Rosewood there for making pens, Macassar Ebony for doing inlay work, Zebrawood for furniture, and a few hundred pounds of plain old boring walnut.

MacBeath is an amazing wood store, but its on the opposite end of the spectrum in terms of cost and practicality from Urban Ore.

I can't think of a project that would be served by a visit to both.

That being said, 100% agree that its worth checking out.

They've also got a non trivial audio tape collection, found so many interesting artifacts there. Love buying mystery tapes, sometimes you discover fascinating new things.

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