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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Craft wood, purchase or harvest and process
  • Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 10:33:17 -0800

Old maple will make your saws quite on you! DH had a bunch of hard rock maple that he forgot was sitting down in the barn. He bought it about 10 or so years ago and it was well aged then (the lumber yard had it sitting in the back for years and had forgotten about it). He made me a butcher block top for my baking area and said he wasn't sure he'd want to run a saw through anymore of it <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>

I wish I had more cherry. I bought a pickup load twenty years ago for
thirty cents a board foot, rough and raw. Some is still stacked and
stickered in the old barn. The best of it, clear, is curing in the
form of long, temporary desk and shelf boards. I like old wood.
Although old oak can be beyond fun.





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