Is this stuff a thing of the past? I used to use this stuff all the time, when I needed something straight and stable.
I ask at the lumberyards nowadays, and they look at me like I just ordered a sky hook.
Does this stuff still exist somewhere besides the southwest?
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check with Stock Building Materials in the Springs....
or with Glenn for a favored Denver location...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I'm at the point where I would like to buy one nice board, I would lean it in the corner so I could show my grandchildren someday.
What ticks me off is that the local lumberyard acts like it doesn't exist, maybe I'll buy an extra board and go crack a few skulls over there...
you only get one chance to do it right the first time
Boddington (sp?) carries it too....
quit using home desperate...
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bite yer tongue...you only get one chance to do it right the first time
foxworth isn't much of an improvement over them....
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foxworth closed down about 1 1/2 years ago, now we got one lumberyard, the Ace store.
I heard that the store foxworth bought, I forget the name right now, there was one in Pueblo too - was a good lumberyard.
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It's quite common here (BC, Canada). Well, common might be a bit of a stretch.
We don't make framing lumber out of VG fir, but it can be had, KD or green. The best is KD and clear, used for windows, trim and doors. I'm about to make some of my own... VG strips ripped off the side of 2" flat sawn lumber. Otherwise, you can order it from any mill. I hear that KD is recommended for stain grade wood to minimize pitch pockets that can leak after finishing.
The old-growth stuff with super-tight annual growth rings is getting harder to find. Second growth wood has coarser grain and is less stable.
Scott.
Always remember those first immortal words that Adam said to Eve, “You’d better stand back, I don’t know how big this thing’s going to get.”
That's the way I used to use it, too. You guys must still have trees up there, maybe someday I'll go look before they're gone.
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One of my suppliers here on Vancouver Island does big business in it, even built his own kilns. Runs from $4 to 8 per BFM depending on size; 8/4 x 12 is biggest I've purchased, usual is 8/4 x 6 for doors and 4/4 x 6 for cabinet stock. Ring density runs from 8 to 30+ per inch. He runs DF flooring as well. Seems to have an endless supply.
You are making me homesick to see some.
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We just trimmed a whole house in CVG fir...put up some built-ins with CVG fir veneer; the whole nine yards.
All of our material was milled by Consolidated Hardwoods in Denver. It was nice stuff.
Nothing beats a good CVG fir splinter, huh?
Adam
Same here, trimming a whole house in VG fir including some of the cabs. It's stock material at every lumberyard. Same deal when I lived in NorCal.
It was stock material when I was building homes in Flagstaff, but when I moved to NM in 92, and to Co later, I haven't seen it since.
And the local guys tell me they can't get it.
you only get one chance to do it right the first time
Brookhart's it was...guess I missed it.you only get one chance to do it right the first time
BrookHearts were crooks...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I buy mine from Dick's lumber, Standard or Northern (special order at Northern).
I'm doing my main bedroom and the whole thing is going to be trimmed out in VG Fir to be period authentic. It's a 1931 house.Quality repairs for your home.
AaronR ConstructionVancouver, Canada
Dang, it's been too long, send me a splinter, will you?
you only get one chance to do it right the first time
Good thing about DF splinters is they are almost self-extracting. Just give them a day or two for the infection to get started then give the area a squeeze - pop - out comes the splinter.
I think it is all going to Japan, From what I understand they love the stuff there.
I am in the same boat as you Heck, I need some for shoebase ( it needs to be stained to match existing fir 8" baseboard) checked around no one has fir trim any more locally.
So I figure 1/2 router bit, fir board, one hour I can knock out as much as I need. Check my local haunts for it none no one has it. Home Depot used to carry it no more, Lowes had it not now I used to go there for it because the yards stopped carrying it and I could pick through for the best.
Everyone is "we can get it for you in a couple of days our supplier is in town but they get it from Portland" Then they send you a board that you would not even use as a shelf in a barn.
I do not know if it is wholesalers are not carrying it, or if lumber yards are not ordering it or if the public no longer appreciates it any longer, Being in Idaho you think it would be coming out our ears. Maybe I need to get a fire wood cutting permit and fall my own tree and not use it for firewood.
Wallyo
Edited 3/11/2008 1:03 am ET by wallyo
Don't know if it will help you, but there's still lots of fir to be purchased in the Seattle area.
Well,
It used to come from here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=port+orford,+or&ie=UTF8&ll=44.881174,-123.817978&spn=0.230619,0.462799&t=h&z=11&iwloc=addr
Then from up there:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kamloops,+bc&ie=UTF8&ll=53.943155,-124.046631&spn=1.532581,3.702393&t=h&z=8
If you can view these pages on your computer.
Pretty amazing. The Oregon shot would be cuts that are 2nd and 3rd growth I think.
I find and use a lot of of CVG fir used/reclaimed. Often I'll be doing some remodeling and find 2x4x12 with nary a knot. Piles of old jambs pulled out of houses clear and tight. Lots of flooring... There's a local outfit that pulls old bleachers out of schools. SYP and lots of CVG fir. 5/4 boards 12" wide x 20' long.
Beautiful stuff! http://eugene.craigslist.org/mat/577753096.html
Pat
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