4-foot Wide Cherry Boards
We woodworkers are pathetic when faced with nice wood. We can’t help it. It’s in our genes. We caress it, we make loving sounds and we’ve never got enough of it. As a miniaturist as well as a full-size woodworker, I have a real twisted view in addition to my love of wood. I can’t help it. If I buy a 4/4 piece of cherry I’ll likely pay $5 a board foot and I’ll be lucky if I can find 6″ wide stock.
And so, when I receive wood for miniature making I can’t help assess its ‘size’ and board foot cost, thinking in terms of the 1/12 scale furniture I build. And so it went when I received this surrealistic forest. In 1/12 scale, the boards on the left are are 3/4″ thick while those on the right are 3/8″ All are baby-butt smooth on both faces. Each board is roughly 4-feet wide and 12-feet long. All of them are quarter-sawn cherry. Best of all, it costs me about a dime per board foot (grin). Makes ya giddy just thinking of wood like that, doesn’t it?
This wood comes from Pete and Pam Boorum of Smaller Than Life. These folks are some of the nicest people you’d ever want to meet. In addition to first class lumber they sell small table saws and lathes and Pete has a wide array of jigs and fixtures for both Preac and Proxxon/Microlux saws.
Cheers — Larry
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