Re: Hickory Lumber prices
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i would be buying the dried rustic and just get more than i needed to cull it out some.
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Re: Hickory Lumber prices
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No idea about the price but a long time ago I worked at a plant in Kentucky that made kitchen cabinet doors. I always thought hickory was the most beautiful ones we made. Was it in Winchester?
It is what it is.
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Re: Hickory Lumber prices
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No idea about the price but a long time ago I worked at a plant in Kentucky that made kitchen cabinet doors. I always thought hickory was the most beautiful ones we made. Depending on finish and style. Hickory and ash look good to me finished natural to very light stain or pickled in simple styles like shaker or mission. I want to see the grain without a bunch of distraction. Let the natural black/white color shine.
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Re: Hickory Lumber prices
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Not to hijack, but i sold alot of lumber to wayne co. plants . and actually did most of the machine work repairs for them right across the street at a machine shop. Its a small world! Guessing you would have had contact with Bruce Turner when he was taking care of the yard for plants #1 and #2 and probably David Jones. I still keep in touch with David but its been 3-4 years since I've been down there. Thought some of those guys went and worked for Wallace after place closed up
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Re: Hickory Lumber prices
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Another reason to stick with simpler styles. It's as bad as oak about tearout. White oak is often my favorite wood( it varies depending on the piece I'm building). For some projects the look of it, especially the rays, make the extra effort worth the trouble. Hickory's grain is too coarse for many projects for my tastes and it eats planer knives.
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Re: Hickory Lumber prices
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Only thing prettier is quarter sawn sycamore Don't see that to often. I'd have never believed sycamore could produce something so nice.
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Re: Hickory Lumber prices
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09/02/19 06:58 PM
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If you have not thought this through, maybe you are not aware that hickory is the second hardest wood. That means it is difficult to make furniture with and is basically used for hardwood flooring.
If this helps, when I was in school, I got the bright idea to make a dresser out of birch. Birch and hand tools are like chisel to rock. With power tools, I lost inches off of boards on a planer, because just as I would get the thing square, a big chunk of wood would chip out, because it is so hard. This includes sanding and for joints I had to make multiple passes with a router as it would either burn the wood or go for a walk across the board.
There are reasons that ash is for baseball bats. Oak was in a number of cabinets, as was maple, cherry and the walnuts. Walnut is expensive but it behaves well for a hardwood. Mahogany was mentioned, it is semi soft or hard, but is a pretty wood too.
You are going to have to work to make hickory behave.
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Re: Hickory Lumber prices
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Only thing prettier is quarter sawn sycamore Don't see that to often. I'd have never believed sycamore could produce something so nice. Just seen q sawn syc the other day, it was quit nice.
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