With wife's gargantuan to do list nearly complete I see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I had ordered my strips from the sawmill and received them in mid July. Unfortunately I had very little time to do anything with them and whats worse I was concerned about the quality of them. The bundle of strips seemed to show different sizes and torn pieces of wood only suitable for lighting fires. I placed them in a builders tube and taped of the ends until today.
Today I decided to really go through them. Good news is that the worst strips were just the leftovers from the edges of the boards I had purchased the majority of them seem quite good however. They still seem just a little ruff like they were ripped with a band saw but overall I'm quite happy with them as I originally thought I had bought lots of kindling. So after separating them I ended up with three piles.
58 strips of 18' 1"
38 strips of 17' 1"
11 strips unusable
5 partially usable ie half lengths that had broken in the middle.
I still have to route a bead and cove on them and hope to get something setup for that soon.
Attached are some pictures of the strips.
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