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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

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.