Picked up 44 pieces on Friday,
1 x 4 x 16's to finish the other half of my metal roof project. $6.65 each, quite a jump from last fall when I did the first half but I have to get it done. Our local lumber yard (not a big box store) has a staggering amount of stock, the lady that owns it maxed out her lumber purchases in the winter as usual before the typical price jumps as spring building season gets started.
Sniffing around, the stocks of lumber at the mills is increasing as the homeowner market projects have dried up due to meth addiction being a cheaper alternative. If you don't have to use lumber, don't purchase lumber! I have some birch ply in my garage for speaker projects as I tend to allow it to dry for a year to get better results. It will get to dry a bit longer since I have more fun things to use my cool tools on...
I was thinking of planting tomatoes in a box of pressure treated wood--uuuuhhh, no! I do have plenty of cinder blocks so will make a cinder block box which works better anyway.
Throw in increasing long term interest rates and soon homeowners won't get a free pass on paying the mortgage, I'd say there will be more homes entering the market while housing demand dampens due to rising interest rates. The mills are really punching out product as you would expect at Heisenburg prices so the lumber bubble will pop just like it did last year. No worries!
Maybe it's time to get a 3D printer to make speaker boxes? Hey, they are building houses with 3D printers so it might be an option in the future. Load tapped horn program, load material and press go. The Ronco speaker-matic...just set it and forget it!
I think I said too much, publicly acknowledging sheets of birch ply and forty-four 1x4x16's in my garage might lead to the mafia making me an offer I can't refuse. Pushed my speaker building to this summer and purchasing more lumber for another project this fall. Part of the fun of building things.
Welcome to inflation nation--do you think disco will come back to match just like in the '70's? I remember when I was in 1st grade that the tube top was a pretty cool style...my kind of "retro style" that needs to come back. Skip the bell bottoms and polyester though...just no.
