"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in
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No shame in starting out with #2 pine boards from Home
Depot either.


Ed's right about starting out with #2 pine, but you might want to find a
decent lumber yard, and see if you can make a friend there. If you can go
during a slow period, and spend maybe five minutes chatting with one of the
staff, you'll likely walk away with better materials, at no higher cost,
and an idea of what the yard can do for you.

And when you need 200 lf of trim, delivered, for a project at home, you may
actually get what you want.

And don't let Ed's $7000 budget scare you off. Some folks can do the trick
for only twice that. ;-)

Patriarch