@Simpleman, I'm tearing down an old house -- is it worth salvaging the 100year old wood? 
Im no expert but that is old dimensional lumber and would/could be re-used for lots of stuffRate my Wood
great condition with not a lot knots in the wood.
if you have time
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Thats great stuff! You could build floors, counter tops, tables, mantles.... its getting harder to find wood like that. Especially: dry, no rot, relatively straight and little knots. Do not throw that out. You could also go on woodworking sites (even reddit) to sell it.Rate my Wood
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That looks to me like some old Douglas fir and if so someone would be willing to pay too dollar for reclaimed firRate my Wood
Fyi kinkos considers this copyrighted material and wont help. Its 4 sheets of 11x17 paper that had to be cut to fit. Spray adhesive is unforgiving too.Still a ways to go but making some gains. Had to get a photo coph of the board from kinkos. It will have a lot of poly on the top to protect it. Stripped and stained. Just need to assemble and add a few more “pieces”
I was just about to ask how annoying it was for you to get that printed considering they're not allowed by policy to print anything that isn't fully owned by you.
Planer or jointer, which should I buy first?Quite often I’ll order in new woods from all over the world and whenever I have time I’ll work with it to see how it machines, cross cuts, sands, finishes, etc to help with selling the item. Last week I brought in brownheart and Granadillo. I decided to plane some of it, cut it and glue it together then sand it to 800 grit. I’m pretty happy with the results. Both are hard as hell but they finish really great.
Planer for sure. A jointer is great but we hardly use the one we have. If you really get into wood working you can save what your planer costs in a matter of years by buying rough stock wood rather than finished dressed boards. To give you an idea, I sell 1x6 maple for $5.99 per foot so an 8 foot board costs $48 plus tax. I sell rough maple boards for $4.99 per board foot (kinda like square foot). A six inch board, eight feet long would be four board feet and would cost $20 plus tax. It’s less than half the cost.
@Simpleman what’s your opinion?
The reason i ask is because there's no way I'm paying for a planer big enough to handle the slabs that I'll need to plane so I'll still have to use a jig and a router to smooth out a lot of the things we're milling.Planer for sure. A jointer is great but we hardly use the one we have. If you really get into wood working you can save what your planer costs in a matter of years by buying rough stock wood rather than finished dressed boards. To give you an idea, I sell 1x6 maple for $5.99 per foot so an 8 foot board costs $48 plus tax. I sell rough maple boards for $4.99 per board foot (kinda like square foot). A six inch board, eight feet long would be four board feet and would cost $20 plus tax. It’s less than half the cost.
Depending who you talk to you could argue that a jointer should be used before planing a board anyways. To me, planers are a necessity for what we do and a jointer is not. Jointers flatten boards and straighten edges. I own a great table saw and a Festool tracksaw which IMO makes a jointer almost pointless. Not everyone can afford that and I sell those items so I got promotional discounts. I could never afford to buy 90% of what we have.
Now I’m blabbering.
I’d recommend a planer.
Ya for sure. What are you planning on building?
Who knows? Tables, desks, whatever seems fun at the time based on the wood that we have ready.
That’s awesome. Woodworking is one of the coolest things to do. You’ll fuck up terribly at something but it can always be corrected.
That's mainly going to be what I'm doing because I love working with fiberglass and epoxy in general so we're milling slabs, curing, and then we're going to fuck some things up and hope that I can at least salvage it with epoxy haha .
