Oak Appetite With Pine Budget. Went to buy a couple oak boards at a big box store for a bathroom vanity build and WOW what a shock. I really hope the sawyers are getting their share of the goldmine. $40 for a 1x4x8.
Oak Appetite With Pine Budget
- Thread starter Sealeveler
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$15.00 per board foot is about the right proportion for a convenience store markup. It has always been that way with those places.
That is big box store markup. 2.7 bf and at Hardwood store red oak is about 3.75/bf. They are charging you $14.78/bf. Quite a profit for convenience.
Check the list of lumber dealer to see if there's one in your area: https://ncwoodworker.net/forums/index.php?resources/master-nc-retail-hardwood-lumber-dealers.550/
Thanks. There’s a place 30 miles away from me. Don’t know if they would sell just 5 or 6 boards. Their fb page shows they are open 5 days a week so I might need to check them out.
I have some quarter-sawn red oak. A large tree fell over and I had it milled onsite. I am headed to Emerald Isle on Tuesday. I could meet you in Morehead with a few boards. It looks like it is about 30 miles from where you are. I could send you some pictures so you know what you are getting. I have 8' boards, approximately 8" wide, and would be willing to sell them for $20 per board. I can send you pictures of what I have in the shop and you can pick what you want.
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Had a meet up with Luke. He’s a great guy. He went out of his way to bring me some awesome looking quartersawn oak and at an amazing price. Before I got the wood my SWMBO was talking about painting the vanity I’m going to try to build and I showed her the pictures of the wood and pointed out that it was sacrilegious to paint wood that is so beautiful. Thanks again Luke.
Hello Sealeveler!! Born and raised DownEast. Bettie/Otway. Grandparents were from Davis Shore and Otway and parents still live in Otway! ECHS graduate 1987! I live about 3.5 hours away now.
Anyway, I buy from local sawyers now and have been for about 2 years. Pine, cypress, red/white oak. I have not paid more than 3.50 a BF for any of it and that was for the oak. The cypress and both oaks were 4/4 and had airdried to a moisture content of 12% with my meter (oak was it was in a pole barn for 4.5 years) and the cypress was 15%- 16%, and it is stickered in my shop now along with some of the pine with a 24-inch shop fan on it for a cycle of one day on and 3 days off. The pine was 2 different loads, and some is ready now and some I just commissioned and picked up the 2nd week of November. Man, you can't get SYP like this at any big box store and that was less than a dollar a BF but that was 900 BF of lumber for a shop overhaul. At my local big blue store, they wanted a kidney, my youngest daughter and both grands....hahahaha but not far from the truth!! Once I developed a good relationship with 2 different sawyers, they let me know usually when they get in good stuff, I might be interested in. Right now, both of them are looking for holly for me. And the sawyers have walnut, quarter sawn, rift sawn, poplar. whole logs of all the above they will mill for you. It is the way to go with a little patience, at least for me.
Lastly, Virginia Tech. has free plans available for a solar kiln..... I actually saw one this week by one of the sawyers I buy from, I always thought it was a shed of some sort on his property and well, let me say after reading about those for 2-3 years and now actually seeing one and talking to him about using one, that would definitely be an amazing investment.
My step mother was from Davis Shore and her family goes back several generations there. My mil's family was from there to and fil's was from Sea Level for several generations also. I was doing some ancestry for my wife and there was a lot of kin marrying kin I think because the area was so isolated that the only way to get around was by boat.
