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28th April 2024, 07:45 AM #16SENIOR MEMBER
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F17 is ideal but will be very expensive considering you’re on a budget. Do you have a mitre10, Bowens or Home hardware to buy mgp10 pine from ? Be worth driving to Melbourne to get it if you can’t locally.
Built my son’s king single bed frame from F17 - 90x45 posts, 140x45 rails, tongue and groove flooring for bed head infill. Connected the rails to head and foot with ‘bed bolts’. Rock solid. This was about 10 years ago though when F17 was affordable and available for diy projects.You boys like Mexico ?
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28th April 2024, 07:27 PM #17New Member
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Bit of an update on this. I ended up finding some reclaimed old hardwood at 240 (ish) x 45 for $25plm. It was taken from an old house that was torn down in Toorak. From what I can tell, I am pretty certain it is oak with the pinkish shade on the end grain.
Cost was fairly close to what pine would have set me back in the end. A tad more. But better than the $1200 the Vic Ash from bendigo Timber would have cost me! (Price wise, not quality, obviously)
Thanks everyone, I've learned quite a bit from this little post
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28th April 2024, 09:46 PM #18
All good, Triodz.
I use quite a lot of recovered timber which is usually old growth. As a rule of thumb, old growth is usually better than regrowth and both are almost always better than plantation. You need common sense awareness of hidden nasties - nails, screws, etc - and eternal vigilance. I started using salvaged timber because it was relatively cheap; I now use it because it is better - - - when it is available - the big problem!
An essential tool is a plug cutter (mine is by Veritas). If you have a small blemish in a piece of salvage, then drill it out, cut a matching plug from an offcut of the same timber and glue the plug into the hole, aligning grain as near as possible. If one plug is not large enough, I insert one plug as above, wait for the glue to dry, then drill a partially overlapping hole and insert another plug, as above. Repeat as needed.
For larger blemishes, I cut a larger hole and make a matching plug and glue it into position, shipwi rights call this plug a "dutchma0".
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