Looking to make a storage cabinet out of Hickory. Got a price from a sawmill. Is this reasonable prices ?
Green - Kiln Dried
Hickory 4/4 Select and Better 1.30 2.60
4/4 1 Common 1.20 2.40
4/4 Rustic 1.00 2.00

Free delivery. No board footage minimums.


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For what its worth, Hickory is hard on saw blades! That is why we almost always refused hickory logs when I was Head Sawyer at a local mill. When we did mill it, we charged more to cover the cost of the bandsaw blades. The kiln dried and free delivery would almost seal the deal for me. Those prices look about right to me.

Price is reasonable.

Reasonable

i would be buying the dried rustic and just get more than i needed to cull it out some.

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?

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.

Hey Abu65
We actually had multiple facilities---Louisville had one, two down in Wayne County and another across the border in TN

There original name was Gamble Brothers but the plants had changed hands multiple times to larger corporations over the years by the time I was transferred there. They were sold off to a private company in mid 90s and the new owner managed to embezzle the pension of the workers and get the feds after him.

It was one of the more enjoyable places I've lived and worked.

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.

Unless you are buying very straight grained pieces that you intend to steam bend, I would never buy hickory that was not dry. I like the looks of the wood but it is a pain to work with.

Another reason to stick with simpler styles. It's as bad as oak about tearout.

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

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.

Quarter sawn white oak ranks up there with tiger maple in my book.

Only thing prettier is quarter sawn sycamore

Don't see that to often. I'd have never believed sycamore could produce something so nice.

My favorite to work though is clear mahogany, though not as pretty.

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.

Just seen q sawn syc the other day, it was quit nice.