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[BILL WILLIAMSON]

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.

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.