12-10-2016, 10:24 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: FRESNO, CA
Posts: 12,560
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Re: Cheap fixes, ETC
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Originally Posted by Synchro909
I needed seasoned, dry timber to make the frame for a car I've just about finished restoring. Kiln dried timber was sooo expensive. For less than one tenth of that cost, I went to a second hand building supplies yard and bought what I needed. It had been dried over several decades in the frame of some house and with a run through the thicknesser, it was as good as the most expensive kiln dried hardwood. Very happy with the result.
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Friend, Ralph, got FREE, blackened heavy OAK from a lumber mill fire! Ripped & planed it & built a BEAUTIFUL body for his OOOLD, Star Huckster. (Ralphs' last name is STARR!) He finished it with TUNG OIL.
Bill W.
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