I had the good fortune of finding the "holy grail" today, 15 roughly 1 3/8" thick x 14" wide x I'd guess 14' (didn't have a tape measure with me, wasn't looking to buy wood today, just had a conversation turn to "lets go look at something i have in the shed across town") of clear vertical grain Douglas fir. I mean "clear grain", the lighting was dim, and again I didn't have a measure with me but I'd guess +20 grains per inch, less than 1 in 24 runout, only a few nail holes (reclaimed from an old gymnasium bleachers). what is a fair price? He said what he wanted for them, and I agreed to buy them all, going to pick them up tomorrow, but he said he has more in another shed (I'm pretty sure he has the entire bleachers stored away). I plan to horde these first fifteen, but what's a board like that worth now days? I've spent the last 5 years rummaging through lumber stacks try to find boards with enough usable wood to justify buying it and most of it going to other projects or the wood burner, I'd like to find a fair value to base an offer on what else he has so I can buy it and redirect it to airplane building rather than see it wasted... |