maple scraps?

[caoni]

I did a search and couldn't find the answer to my question, so forgive me if it's out there, I just couldn't find it. I'm pretty new to woodworking, and just started making maple lumber. Along with my lumber came a biproduct of maple scraps. I can't sell it to the merchant, and I can't find anywhere of what I can use it for. Can anyone help me?

[Latormenta]

The scraps can be used to make turned maple. Turned maple in turn can be used to make totems. The scraps famously used to be salable to an NPC for a good chunk of change. SOE made them NO VALUE to keep people from "printing money" by just refining a ton of maple (and ash, briarwood, and teak).

[kieroth_whiteleaf]

Turned maple lumber (iirc) vendors slightly higher than the cost of the wort/sandpaper so you can make a small profit by refining all your scraps.

Completely useless to save. All the totems I've seen so far require a staff (or was it dowel? One or the other) in addition to the turned lumber, so basically with one piece of severed maple you've got a dowel and the turned lumber already. I kept saving it with the intent to make totems later before I realized that the OTHER component would just generate more scraps.

I have managed to sell a few in vendor mode. Not sure why exactly, but at 1 copper each that's better than destroying them :P Only happened once, and I think the person probably thought they were getting something else. Cleared out a couple stacks tho.

Then again, I'm constantly amazed at what people will buy. My guild gets a laugh out of the fact I sell the leather rucksacks you can buy off common vendors in ant and commonlands - I buy for ~7.5s and sell on merchant mode for 10s. Does selling to stupid people count as an exploit?

My opinion on scraps - Unless you're going to use them *RIGHT THEN* for making a totem, just destroy. Even the slight money gain on the refine probably isn't worth the time it takes.

SFG

[Moonshade]

Completely useless to save. All the totems I've seen so far require a staff (or was it dowel? One or the other) in addition to the turned lumber, so basically with one piece of severed maple you've got a dowel and the turned lumber already.

It's actually a quill, not dowel. but the idea is the same. :)

[Haidara]

Then again, I'm constantly amazed at what people will buy. My guild gets a laugh out of the fact I sell the leather rucksacks you can buy off common vendors in ant and commonlands - I buy for ~7.5s and sell on merchant mode for 10s. Does selling to stupid people count as an exploit?
I had a provisioner friend who actually stopped leveling because he was making more money buying Fizzlecutter's drink from the vendor and reselling it. Several stack per night too. (This was prior to the 66% vendor food nerf) I still thought it was outrageous. He was level 18 and had close to 1pp in the bank.

There are quite a few things if you look around that are sold in Freeport and not in Qeynos and vica-versa. You can make decent profit buying these and reselling them for higher price. One example are paintings, the vendors in Qeynos sell a few varieties oil paintings for approx 24sp that are not sold anywhere to evil toons. So these will easily sell for 50-100sp on the fence.

Another example are glass beakers. There is 1 vendor that I know of in all of Freeport that sells these and he is so obscure most would never find him unless they accidently stumbled upon him while doing newbie quests (i.e no where near a bank, inn or bell)

Now with that said I'll admit that I once bought a vendor sold satchel for throwing hammers off the broker for 75sp. I later found the local "bowyer" selling these for 6sp....(ok so it was my first foray in thrown weapons.)
/smacks himself

[Lordebon]

I made a few gold buying lightstones from the fence and reselling them (made 10gp total.. sold 2 or 3 of 'em)... people are often just too lazy to visit the fence... if you have a contact in freeport, it can be even more lucrative by removing that 40% you need to pay for with the fence. I know the wooden counter is a great seller... its a basis of many homes, so people often stock up on those in FP (using the fence, or another char... you cant buy them if youre a qeynos citizen, even if you sneak in) and resell them in Qeynos at a profit.

[kieroth_whiteleaf]

It's actually a quill, not dowel. but the idea is the same. :)

Yeah. That's what I said. Maple Quill.

Doh. I r teh ub3r carpenter. Sad but true, carpenter is my highest tradeskill.

SFG