On Mar 13, 10:28 am, "RicodJour" wrote:
dpb wrote:

....snip story of old schoolhouse salvage...

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?

Long story short version

Split it w/ buddy had met (since $3k was over third of annual salary
at the time, it was an expenditure not made lightly) and had been
moonlighting doing custom woodworking with. Built quite a lot of
furniture and other architectural work with the bulk of it (was also
w/ a bunch of other guys rehabbing old ante- and shortly-after-post-
bellum houses which needed original mouldings and other w/w repaired/
restored/replaced). Sold a sizable chunk of the thicker as blanks for
shotgun gunstocks to one of the high-end gunmakers for mostly
competitive skeet and trap. Unfortunately, had to sell the remainder
some years later when moved to TN from VA and had nowhere to store it
although by then there were only a couple hundred feet left. Still
rue that decision -- should have paid the storage fees until got the
space.