In article , Charlie Self wrote:

The price is on a curve because a tree only gives up so many boards.
The wider, or thicker, the board, the fewer it gives up. Sure, there's
a tad less waste with thicker lumber, but there are also fewer 2x6s in
a log than there are 1x6s. The law of supply and demand for a tree
simply states that when you get fewer of an item out of a particular
basic material, you have to charge more per unit for that item.

Well, yeah, but *that*much* more?

Interesting thing, though -- at the lumber supplier just up the road from me
http://www.northwestlumberco.com/domestic.php
the price premiums for 8/4 vs. 4/4 are 14% for ash, 25% for cherry, 20% for
cypress, 25% for poplar, 50% for walnut -- all about what I'd expected -- and
68% for red oak and 78% for white oak!

Why would the premium be so much more for oak than for cherry?

And why is it only 4% on hard maple?

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Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.