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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
By:Marc Upchurch
Date: 6/12/2013, 6:47 am
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF? (Malcolm Schweizer)

For 50 cents /bd ft, I would buy the whole 300 bd ft!
Alas it is $6.00/ bd ft. That is 4x western red cedar, but it has no knots or other problems, so I think it is only 2x the cost of western red installed.
Cut, sanded, and varnished a sample. It is not quite as pretty as I thought it would be when I saw it rough cut. Not as fragrant as I imagined, also. No telling how long the boards have been cut.

The data says it is stiffer (~20%), Stronger (~35%) and harder (~45%) so I wondered about using a little smaller stringers since it weighs more (~20%). Of course you couldn't thin it by as much as 20% and that really doesn't stop me from buying the same amount of wood.

It would be nice using clear wood for once.

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Marc Upchurch -- 6/10/2013, 9:49 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Bill Hamm -- 6/11/2013, 12:00 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Malcolm Schweizer -- 6/11/2013, 3:59 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Marc Upchurch -- 6/11/2013, 7:11 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Malcolm Schweizer -- 6/11/2013, 8:17 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Marc Upchurch -- 6/12/2013, 6:47 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Malcolm Schweizer -- 6/12/2013, 3:27 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Marc Upchurch -- 6/12/2013, 6:14 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Bill Hamm -- 6/13/2013, 12:55 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Marc Upchurch -- 6/13/2013, 7:29 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Bill Hamm -- 6/16/2013, 1:07 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
john vanburen -- 6/14/2013, 6:26 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Bill Hamm -- 6/16/2013, 1:09 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Spanish Cedar for SOF?
Marc Upchurch -- 6/16/2013, 9:22 am