Cull lumber, do you think?

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura) 04/04/2020 at 11:12 • Filed to: None

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TheRealBicycleBuck > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/04/2020 at 11:17

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Perfect for that curved bar you planned to build!

Urambo Tauro > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/04/2020 at 11:30

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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/04/2020 at 11:37

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That stuff is shit, can’t do anything with it.

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/04/2020 at 12:28

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By brother and I he lped a buddy renovate a boat house a few summers back. We gutted the whole inside and removed a bunch of original 60 year old studs. The grain on those bad boys was so tight we kept them and made a picnic table. The new quick growth stuff is trash by comparison.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/04/2020 at 12:51

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Is warped lumber like that useful at all? Can you just brute force it into shape with enough screws/nails/glue?

Chariotoflove > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/04/2020 at 13:22

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You can burn it.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/04/2020 at 13:43

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He's building a boat to sail far far away from the haters.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 04/04/2020 at 13:53

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Nope. I'm aiming to flank them.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/04/2020 at 14:03

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I think I know what kind of tree it came from:

sn4cktimes > gin-san - shitpost specialist 04/04/2020 at 14:09

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TLDR Version: Yes, sometimes.

Depending on what you use it for, yeah, often you can force it into good enough submission for rougher results . The “bow” that those boards have is easier to push out than if a board has extreme “crown” (bend along the skinny edge). Twist generally makes a board totally useless. Twist combined with one of the other makes a helical shape that is often even hard to get into a chop- saw to make firewood out of. When I framed YEARS ago we’d use bad crown for blocks here and there, bow would get used for “king” studs (several boards nailed together with bends opposite ), twist and helical went in the bin. I just made a set of shelves last week at work before getting let go to put bankers boxes of paper onto. We had a bunch of terrible 2x4's and 3/8 plywood. Lots of bad bowed and crowned boards got used where I could hide the defect . Twisted boards got used inside the shelves or for shorter pieces or where I could put a LOT of screws into them.

sn4cktimes > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 04/04/2020 at 14:10

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Problem with old vs new wood is things like 2x4's had more meat left on them back in the day, so new studs aren’t as wide. Makes it hard to “match” the wall thickness if doing a partial reno.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > sn4cktimes 04/04/2020 at 14:15

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This is the kind of response I was hoping for, thanks!

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/04/2020 at 15:56

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I am a good Home Chea po helper

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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 04/04/2020 at 16:27

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 Poor unappreciated animal that leads a very uncomfortable and boring life.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 04/04/2020 at 16:29

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Yes. I buy Surface Dry construction lumber and get some pretty tight grain. But not like what you're describing.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 04/04/2020 at 16:30

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Severely neglected. She is actually a bit bored these days! 

Nom De Plume > gin-san - shitpost specialist 04/04/2020 at 19:36

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It has much to do with what happens when wood dries and the industrial process of kiln drying to kill things +  make it hit a certain % of water content quickly.