DIYers - wood buying advice...

Hootsmon

Sambostar said:

guitarfishbay said:

Also in my man defense I didn't have a drill or staple gun when I first got a couple of panels... 

You have failed at manliness.  Pass me the euthanasia injection.

real men shoot themselves...............in the head and baws

Hootsmon

all this talk of wood is makin' me feel like a................................ curry

stonevibe

T W Parker in Palmers Green is the place to go. 

 On North Circ / Green Lanes.

octatonic

I made my own panels back in 2007.

Worth doing but the pro-built ones will probably look better.

I used pine.

Sambostar

Well I left my 8" x 1/2" strips outside and now they are all curvy from the dew so probably firewood after all.  Real wood is a nightmare.  You pay for something that has been selected as relatively knot free, and then again graded as straight and true and not warped or split or cracked after all the energy that has gone into to it to reduce it's moisture content.

CLS, which is what my 8" strips were cut from (8x2's) has a much higher moisture content that joinery quality softwood in my experience.  But of course you cut any bit of wood along the grain and weird things usually always happen as you release the tension.