Charlie Self wrote:

Jeez, $3.90 is awful. I just checked with a guy I try to go through to get
lumber. He pays around $2 a BF for both red and white oak, $1.50 for poplar
(and will be bringing me about 160 BF of poplar shortly [when it stops raining
long enough for my shop door to be reachable by wheeled vehicles instead of
boats and tracked vehicles]; that poplar is about the prettiest I've ever seen,
in widths from 10" to 16", flat as a--er, um--board, white, with maybe one knot
per 14' length).

Grumble. The latest (on-line) price for s4s poplar at the blue borg is
about $3.75 a bf. And that is for 1x3x4' stock. You suck. I have put
off driving to a couple of local hardwood lumber yards (Peterman and
Reel) or "contractor yards" because I'm lazy, it is a bit of a slog and
the web sites are rather poor. When I can get rift sawn FAS white oak
from Hartzell shipped to the boondocks for a bit over $4 a bf, I'm
wondering whether I shouldn't use the oak for drawer sides and the like.
Oh and doug fir (select) is cheaper but not by that much ($2.66).
Enough whining I guess. Snuffle.

mahalo (and a barely audible grumble),
jo4hn