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Big wood!

Walnut was my father's favorite wood, but I favor oak. Oak's my favorite, from the growing tree, to finished lumber.
 
lxskllr said:
Walnut was my father's favorite wood, but I favor oak. Oak's my favorite, from the growing tree, to finished lumber.
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I like oak, but love walnut. At around $16 a board foot it falls into the stupid expensive category. I keep an eye out for green rough sawn walnut on marketplace, but it gets snatched up pretty quick.
 
Found another fellow selling mixed units of sawmill lumber for dirt cheap. A lot of it is dunnage, but for small projects even dunnage can be useable material if you have the equipment to mill it down to size. Since this stuff is being sold at around the same price as firewood, it's hard to go wrong.
 
I built a small 22"x50" stand alone island awhile back, and the 11bf 5/4 White Oak top alone was 120 bucks. Hardwood is so costly here, I grabbed a couple old Maple headboards and repurposed into cutting boards (or for the fancy charcuterie boards). Big wood indeed.
 
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jmagg said:
I built a small 22"x50" stand alone island awhile back, and the 11bf 5/4 White Oak top alone was 120 bucks. Hardwood is so costly here, I grabbed a couple old Maple headboards and repurposed into cutting boards (or for the fancy charcuterie boards). Big wood indeed.
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There are a few fellows around here that run sawmills, I can get green white oak for $1.40 a board foot, but it has to dry a year before it's useable. It's also 4/4 which I can deal with. 8/4 material is problematic because I can't rip down boards more than 6" wide. I had a 14" band saw that I picked up cheap and tuned up, it was great for resawing wide material, but the dust collection was a joke. I ended up selling it because I couldn't stand the cloud of sawdust that came out of it. I'd like to buy a new one, but the cheapest one that I'd consider is $1500, and my shop is getting a little crowded.
 
Considering my masonry career, and later obsessions with wood fabrication, i'm not sure who i became. Sawski or Dust.
 
Greenman said:
Scored just over a hundred board feet of white oak for $150. All of it is 9' to 13' long, widths range from 6" to 13", about 90% is clear. Beautiful material. Wish I could find a deal like that on black walnut.
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So what you would really like is some big black wood. Got it. 😛

Jokes aside, that's a killer deal.
 
So my latest find didn't pan out. The unit was mostly two and three inch thick material, and there was just plain to much of it. The fellow had a slab that was about 6' long, 30" wide, and 8" thick, and really rough. Would have made a great table for the back yard, but there was no way I could move it solo.
 
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