Black Walnut Gloat

[Paul Greathouse]

I'll be building new kitchen cabinets this winter. I was going to use Pecan but I stumbled across some Black Walnut on Craigslist. I think I have aquired my GLOAT of the year. I'll let all of you decide.

1200 BdFt of Kiln Dried Black Walnut for $2200. The guy said it was dried to 6% almost a year ago. I checked with my moisture meter in several places in the pile and it was anywhere from 8.6% - 9.6%.

The guy had a beautful new home with what he estimated to be about 7000 bdft of Black Walnut cabinets and trim in it. He still had about 4000 bdft in his garage, I got 1200 of it.

And of course no gloat is complete without pictures, enjoy.

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Heres a 1x8 I jointed and planed. It's some beautiful stuff.

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[Michael Heffernan]

Paul,
Congrats on such a great deal. Wish I could find something like that around my neck of the woods. Guess I'll keep looking at CL for my deal of the century.
Great find.

[Mike Cruz]

Walnut is my favorite wood. So you could tell me you got it for $8 a bf and I would say congrats!

Good job on the score. Why'd ya stop at 1200? :D

[tyler mckenzie]

Great find, looking forward to see what you make with it.

[John Keeton]

The ONLY thing that would make this gloat better is a load of maple to go with it! Like Mike, walnut is my favorite, and when paired up with maple, it doesn't get any better IMO.

[gary Zimmel]

Under 2 bucks a board foot!

Up here that would be a mega gloat....
Great score Paul.