dpb wrote:

In VA years ago, they salvaged material from an early schoolhouse and
stacked it for sale. Went for the purpose of getting one of the old
slate blackboards for the kids. Wandering around looking through
piles of joists and other framing lumber and noticed it was all quite
dark in color. Hmmm, me says...let's look at this. Scrape a little
corner off a 3x12 18-footer and yep! -- just what I thought:
virtually the whole thing was framed w/ walnut.

Placed a bid of $3000 for the entire stack of lumber and came away
with something under 8000 bd-ft of #1C and better walnut.

What did you end up doing with the wood, Duane?

R