tms wrote:
Hey drstrip,
I can get Deks easily enough, I was asking about the Port Orford Cedar.
Cheers,
Tom
Maybe if I replied to what you wrote instead of what I read
I bought the POC from East Fork Lumber in Myrtle, OR. We bought a large enough quantity to be worth trucking to Albq, but I think they'll deal with more modest quantities. We bought second growth and in the 1000 board feet or so there was hardly a knot to be found. We bought 4/4, 6/4, and 8/4 rought sawn and mostly it was generously sawn. The doors are 1.75" (as an exterior door should be) and I was generally able to get that from an 8/4 board even after jointing a clean, square face on an 84" or so board, 7" wide. A few didn't make it, but most did. At the time (a couple of years ago) they also had old growth. It's more expensive of course, both in $s and conscience.
One oddity - they didn't seem to grok the notion of random width boards being however wide they come from the tree. They wanted a width when we ordered. In the end we sort of got random width, though it seemed to be "randomly" in full inch multiples. Nothing narrower than about 8" as I recall, nothing bigger than 12". I also got some myrtle wood from them, but I seem to recall they scavenged that from someone else.