My next steep will be to gather the wood I need to get started. I have not had any luck finding anything locally. I found this site on the net. What do you think of them? Do you have any suggestions on where I can get wood in New Jersey?
Thanks for you help

http://www.cedar-4-sale.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=CHIL04

Ships right to your door, you don't have to go anywhere and there is no sales tax. A few here use them and recommend them to others. I'm going to be ordering from them in the next few weeks.

I assume they are nominal 2x2 so they actually are inch ind a half?

What about some of the wood this company has. They are about 1.5miles from my house.
http://www.exoticwoods.com/

They also have a scrap bin of cut offs of the wood they carry. They are all different sizes and it is free. I found a bunch of pieces like 12" or so long.

Yes bluefishercat