Re: Did you build those cabinets?


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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [24.32.202.166] on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 14:12:22 :

In Reply to: Re: Did you build those cabinets? posted by Jerry in Idaho [69.59.83.175] on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 11:31:56 :

He does fine work. I know knotty hardwoods are all the rage for cabinetry these days, but I think that's just because the marketeers have bamboozled young homeowners into thinking that cull wood is special. That scultch wood won't hold any sort of dimensional stability, as well as looking ugly in my opinion. When I was little, my dad would go to the lumber yard for whatever project he was building around the house, usually just shelves, and he'd always pick out VG clear doug fir. Of course back then the log yards in Raymond and Astoria were still piled high with logs 6 and 8 feet through.

Now I save any clear fir I pull out of any old building, and sometimes I get lucky and can high grade a few VG clears from a common lumber pile at a lumber yard. Even found a totally clear 4x10x12' at Home Depot a couple years ago, marked down for closeout no less. I think store-bought VG fir is about as expensive as walnut these days, in the $5-$10/bd ft range.

It's hard to believe that only a century ago, the stuff was damn near free on the stump (the state tried unsuccessfully to collect a tax of 15 cents per thousand) and they were making everything from pipelines and tanks to barges and sailing ships out of VG clear doug fir. All the houses used VG clear 1x4 fir flooring, clear back to the midwest. Nobody even thought it was special. They'd cover it with oak in the better homes.



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