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RE: The lattice build has begun!!! - Gary G™ - 03-10-2025
(03-10-2025, 09:25 AM)Dumb_Polack Wrote: Hi Gary,
Actually I never thought of searching for white cedar in 1"x widths. Each post is $42-ish and they yield approx 30 lattice pieces each.
I just checked Lowe's and they sell the individual 19/32-in x 5-1/2-in x 6-ft Cedar Dog ear Fence Picket. Hmmm....I could plane them down a bit to get to my desired thickness. Each board could yield 6 lattice pieces...hmmm...let me chew on that.
I buy almost all my lumber from sawmills or wholesale lumberyards other than construction grade materials.
Not sure about white cedar here in Florida; we get a lot of red cedar and I’d use Cypress because it’s readily available and rot resistant.
Last time I bought rough sawn Cypress was several weeks ago; my cost was less than $2.00/BF and they were generous as the 4/4 was more like 5/4.
I also had need for 1/2” thick Cypress and they charged a small fee to resaw the 4/4. It was somewhere around $.50 per board. Negligible.
Having said this, an 8’ — 5”x5” at $42 is 16.6 BF so that’s $2.53/BF—which seems pretty good.
RE: The lattice build has begun!!! - Dumb_Polack - 04-18-2025
The fence is done!!
I'll snap some pictures this weekend and post them.
I had to remake some of the vertical slats and clean up a bunch of others, so the build took longer than planned.
RE: The lattice build has begun!!! - Dumb_Polack - 04-18-2025
here's a picture
(Astute observers might recognize the Martin House in the background (that was from a WS issue...maybe 4 years ago???) that I built. The sparrows seem to love it
RE: The lattice build has begun!!! - MarkSingleton - 04-19-2025
Ah, the satisfaction of a job well done. That looks terrific.
Good job.
RE: The lattice build has begun!!! - Gary G™ - 04-19-2025
I was thinking you were over the edge for making this instead of buying lattice but it looks very good.
And, it seems like you had fun making it—solving the challenges.
Great job.
RE: The lattice build has begun!!! - jteneyck - 04-19-2025
(04-19-2025, 08:14 AM)Gary G™ Wrote: I was thinking you were over the edge for making this instead of buying lattice but it looks very good.
And, it seems like you had fun making it—solving the challenges.
Great job.
He was over the edge, as many of us sometimes go, but they sure do look good. Well done.
John
RE: The lattice build has begun!!! - Gary G™ - 04-19-2025
(04-19-2025, 08:18 AM)jteneyck Wrote: He was over the edge, as many of us sometimes go
John
Yep; guilty as charged.