Roy wrote:

It comes up $49.27 for a piece of this material (1018) cut to
24" without shiping.

How about you check your end again , or I may be doing
something wrong as well, so I am curious as what the big price
difference between us
is.

This is the link to the price I got:
http://onlinemetals.com/merchant.cfm...owunits=inches

I purchased plain cold rold steel for my ways (~ 5$/ft at onlinemetals).

http://onlinemetals.com/merchant.cfm...owunits=inches

The URL you referred to was for low carbon tool steel. Is that
what should be used? I made an oops if you say yes...