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A guy I work with is helping his Grandma get rid of the tools and wood in his Grandpas old pattern shop. They have a lot of old HOG, no idea what variety. I saw one board in the pics that was 4"x17.5"x148". What is a good, but fair price for this stuff. I'd only buy a few boards. I dont really need B+S sets, but would use it for necks. Maybe I'd get some to make furniture out of.

Zach, just from memory it seems a double neck size billet is 80 or 90 bucks from LMI. That'll give you an idea of where to look. Of course it's first grade stock.

I like to use 1 1/2 inch flatsawn planks and cut and fold together to get more or less quartersawn pieces laminated together. That's worth somewhat less.

Just nose around any seller and you'll get an idea, most hardwoods will go between 6 to 14 dollars a board foot. Exotics of course will cost you much more.

It's not easy to sell wood, whatever you buy will help them out, just get stuff you know you will use. Many times you can buy it all for a reasonable price, keep what you want and dispose of the rest.

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just to show you the delta in pricing .. pattern grade hondo in 12/4 is about 14 a bf here in Canada.

I went to a yard sale a few years ago and a woman had all her dads wood stocks in the garage .. she had somewhere around 500-600 BF of african hog .. about 4-5K worth if bought at a wood shop. She wouldnt let it go for 1500, which was all I could afford at the time. She wouldnt sell me just a few boards either, it was all or nothing. She ended up taking it to a local hw dealer who gave her about 50 cents on the dollar for it, about twice what I offered. But she had to load it all up some how and get it there ...

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New Hondo Hog stock(4/4-8/4) are being priced(retail) around here for $10-12 bd. ft. Some old stock that hasn't been marked up can be had for last years prices. I ran across several really nice surfaced 4" stock the other day(widths at 18"+), and thought I better buy these up straight away. Asked for the price per. bd. ft. $18.00

Rich

I need to get up there and see this stuff in person. From the pics I have, most is angle cut, neither flat or quartered. Some of it I just cent tell from the pics.

On a similar note to those who do electrics, what is the typical criteria for the center piece of a body on a hippie sandwich. My Variax has the grain on the wings @ 45 deg and the center piece at about 20 deg from quartered. I just got via UPS today a sweet sweet piece of Bastogne Walnut that I snatched up on sale to build a bass sometime down the road. 600 thick, so I can resaw each half for 250 front and back drop sets. I threw my body wing templates on there and its big enough that I can make two basses from this set. I was thinking of finding some Black Limba for the center lam, but HOG may look better with the walnut.

For solidbodies, flatsawn or rift sawn body blanks is certainly the norm. If your company is 'fender', flatsawn everything is pretty much the norm.

I try for quartered when I can get it (have lots of quartered limba and african mahogany), but I don't worry about it too much for bodies. In fact, I prefer to use my flatsawn boards for necks (rip and flip, laminated, contrasting center) and the quartered for natural finish bodies, as for woods like mahogany in particular (and limba) I'm not all that attracted to flatsawn grain. Ash I can take either way.