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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What kind of wood are you buying that's $25 for 8'x1'? There are hardwood options in the $1.5/foot range, so you must be getting something kind of fancy.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This stuff, definitely not fancy at all - in fact barely acceptable for cabinetry. I don't know where you're getting your wood, but you can't get 12" wide 3/4" planks for anything close to a buck fifty a foot where I live. This is the closest thing to it at Lowe's, and it's absolute garbage, full of knots, badly warped and not even an actual foot wide. Even poplar would be more than twice as much for 6' boards, and oak would be three times as much. The manufactured stuff I listed is at least straight and unwarped and it's a full 12" wide.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I was just looking at planks, thinking of something like this. Larger boards would certainly cost more.

And that oak board is only 6' long...

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The wood I linked I'm just using to frame out the cabinets themselves. It would be much too crappy to make the doors out of, although I probably would have considered it if I hadn't found a full kitchen's worth of good-quality cabinet doors on Craigslist for $250.