A Taste of What the Old Days Must Have Been Like

[Kris Cook]

I am trimming out my living room with African Mahogany. Picked this material up today.

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These boards are quartersawn, select and better grade - 4/4, and the narrowest is 16-1/2" wide, with the widest being 19". They are all 15' long (yes I should have taken my trailer but got them home OK).

Maybe this is common in other areas but I was stunned to see these wide boards. Just think what is was like "back in the day".

I will feel guilty ripping these down...

[Myles Moran]

Wow, that's some nice looking wood. And I feel really bad buying a 12" wide piece of maple to rip down into drawer stock (which was the narrowest I could find in the stock pile), I couldn't imagine getting a 19" board for that.

[Kevin Jenness]

Back in the day you could regularly get Honduras mahogany that size. In a few more years we will be looking back on today as "back in the day" and glad to get whatever ersatz mahogany is on sale then.

[David Stone (CT)]

That is beautiful material. Vastly nicer than anything I have ever stapled a red flag to (consisting solely of framing lumber). Enjoy!

[Mike Wilkins]

Those are almost as long as my shop is wide (16 feet). Nice find.