Big Ol' Hunk of Cherry

Incredible. It wouldn’t fit in my planer.

-- Maplewood, MN

That works out to be $11.00 a foot for cherry. Wow!!!!!!! I need to go into business reselling wood. There was a piece like this that was up for auction on Ebay last week (20-22” wide x9’x2.75” thick). The high bid was only $137.50. It didn’t meet the reserve but I am sure that the reserve was far less than $11.00 a bf.

These pieces are nice but I agree with rikkor that if I got it I am not sure what I would do with something this wide.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

I asked one of my suppliers about a pallet of flame cherry recently and was quoted $14.75/ft.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Nice chunk of wood!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

A nice big piece of wood. I guess you could resaw it and have some bookmatched pieces.

But it would be easier if you got a whole flitch from a sawer.

That way all of the boards would be in sequence. You will never find that in a regular lumberyard.

Lee says that his friend Rick Hearnes at Hearnes hardwoods in Philadelphia. He tends to keep all of the wood he sells in flitch run and in some cases will only sell the whole log in sequence. He’s not interested in selling you one board.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com