Gentlemen- street price for walnut these days??

[Tom Rick]

I have a chance to buy some walnut at $2.50 bf.. sounds cheap to me.

All I ever buy these days is teak so I don't have a clue what other woods are bringing. I would guess ~ $8/bf for walnut?
Boards are about 4/4 x 8" x 8'

Thanks

[Victor Robinson]

My local supplier (Northern California) is $6/bdft for 4/4 FAS S2S1E.

Your price seems good but hard to say for sure without knowing how clear it is and the sapwood content.

Wall lumber is currently selling #2/#3 common walnut in 100 bdft bundles for $1.50-1.75 / bdft.

http://www.walllumber.com/special/redhot.asp

[Lee Koepke]

Western Georgia is about the same $2.50 for surfaced 2 sides .

[dirk martin]

I'm getting it for $1.81, in the rough, in mid Wisconsin.

[Keith Albertson]

Here in overpriced Northern Virginia I can get it "cheap" at 4.50 bf, FAS unsurfaced, as a "short". Full length boards, wide boards, surfaced boards, or figured boards all cost either an arm or a leg, but usually not both.

[Tom Rick]

OK- thanks. I am in MD & ditto on high prices for lumber but it looks like this is a really good deal only if the stock is decent.

Thanks all.

[Larry Fox]

This is what I pay for walnut.

http://www.hearnehardwoods.com/hardwoods/pricelist/pricelist.html#walnut

They have premium stuff but don't give it away. IMHO bad (off-color, knotty, lots of sap wood, steamed) walnut is worse than no walnut. My experience is you need to pick through a lot of it to get the good stuff so check the $2.50 / bd-ft lot to see how much good stock is there before you commit.

[Karl Brogger]

I'm paying anywhere from $4 to almost $5 a bd/ft for steamed s3s @ 13/16". I have gotten some very nice lumber the last few times I've bought Walnut.

[Prashun Patel]

Wow, you guys get it cheap!!!

I can get it for between $6 and $7/bf right now.

Just beware it doesn't contain a lot of sap.

[Brian Tymchak]

I bought some nice air-dried walnut off of Craigs List last October at $2 bf. There tends to be a lot of walnut offered locally on CL. You might try there.

[Keith Harrell]

I just got some locally that was kiln dried and surfaced with a straight edge for $6.50. I picked so there was little sap wood. My experience with mail order walnut has not been good(lot of Sapwood).

[Josiah Bartlett]

The street price for walnut seems to be pretty variable geographically... I think it depends on local sources. We have a lot of local Walnut available in Western Oregon, and it can be fairly cheap here.

[Bailey John]

OK- thanks. I am in MD & ditto on high prices for lumber but it looks like this is a really good deal only if the stock is decent.

Thanks all.
Tom, That sounds really great. Check out Hazleton hardwoods near Morgantown, WV. He is almost close to that price. Rest of our local guys are in $4.5 to $5.50 range for 4/4

[john davey]

Hi Tom, I am in MD as well (College Park). that sounds like a good price to me for our area. Someone already posted Hearne Hardwoods price list. Depending on where you are in MD they could work for you. they look like a big operation. All of us MD/DC/VA guys should combine an order up there and make a trip.... Maybe get a deal, I know we would get an education or at least I would :).