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[cteno4]

Wow that is much better pricing than we have here. It was going up way before covid, covid just boosted it some more and ive not seen wood prices here backing down in the last decade.

 

yes simple frame to do with your dimentional lumber and the chop saw. Good straight guide for the circular saw will do great. Im always shocked how fast modules like this go together.

 

Looking forward to this coming together!

 

jeff

[gibet_b]

13 hours ago, cteno4 said:

If you have access to a table saw or are good at ripping with a circular saw you might look at just ripping up decent finished cabinetry 18mm ply into strips instead of dimensional lumber. I dont know if it’s the same down under but our dimensional lumber has gotten horridly expensive and poor quality to find non warped or knotted pieces. Cabinetry ply usually comes in decent shape for ply and in a frame work like this is super sturdy and easy to work with using countersunk screws. The veneer is now paper thin on ours these days, but no worries as you will be veneering anyway probably with your curvy front. Veneer is a great way to go as easy to apply later once messy stuff is done to finish you edges. But I went to using plywoods for module framing and many other things i use to use dimensional lumber for framing a decade or so back and never looked back! I have a planer so i can run the strips thru the planer and get them really nice and smooth on each side and its cleaner than most all dimensional lumber and warps way less and is now way way cheaper than dimensional lumber.

 

So true... Same here. The less the wood piece is, the more expensive it is ! I buy pine panels and I cut them to dimensions with a circular saw. I used to have a table saw, it was easiest. I plan to buy a new one, but I don't have a workshop anymore, even if my house is really bigger than the previous one 😄

[cteno4]

I really love the Baltic birch 7 and 9 ply plywoods to cut down into dimentional lumber for framing and such for these kinds of projects. The birch is nice and hard so holds up well, but not as hard as a maple or oak which can just get harder to finish easily. The thick plys on the surface also mean you dont sand thru the exterior veneer. Sadly the war has pushed prices up even further on it, but last time i calculated it out to compare to clear dimentional lumber it was still a bunch cheaper and more flexible in easily creating the dimensions i needed fro varying thicknesses. Having a shop with table saw, joiner, and planer helps! But stripping with a circular saw is not super hard once you get things set up well to do it. 

 

Jeff

[MrLinderman]

2 hours ago, cteno4 said:

I really love the Baltic birch 7 and 9 ply plywoods to cut down into dimentional lumber for framing and such for these kinds of projects. The birch is nice and hard so holds up well, but not as hard as a maple or oak which can just get harder to finish easily. The thick plys on the surface also mean you dont sand thru the exterior veneer. Sadly the war has pushed prices up even further on it, but last time i calculated it out to compare to clear dimentional lumber it was still a bunch cheaper and more flexible in easily creating the dimensions i needed fro varying thicknesses. Having a shop with table saw, joiner, and planer helps! But stripping with a circular saw is not super hard once you get things set up well to do it. 

 

Jeff

 

Birch Ply here does bring the price up allot, Structural Ply wood sheeting isn't too bad, 2400x1200x25 (F8 A Bond Ply) which would rip into around 17 pieces of 2.4m x 70mm x 25mm comes to around the same price per LM as the 70x35 pine merch grade (US$1.8), Birch ply is almost triple that so per LM it comes to around US$5 / LM if i went down the route of ripping my own pieces from Birch Ply.

 

So all up, rough pricing:

Pine merch grade framing 70x35 = $50-60US all up

Pine structural grade framing 70x35 = $75-85US all up

 

Pine Sheeting ripped to size 70x25 = $50-60US all up

Birch sheeting ripped to size 70x25 = $150-180US all up

[cteno4]

Interesting prices sort of flipped here.

 

jeff