Nice load of Cherry

[David Utterback]

Cherry is my favorite also although I always start with the rough stuff. Working with S4S must save a ton of time. Congrats and thanks for sharing.

[Mark Bolton]

For cherry that nice, it would be worth driving down from MA with my 30' gooseneck for a few packs!!
The only time I see stuff that nice is if we have time to saw it ourselves, or buy from a boutique supplier and bleed out our eyes at the price.
Dang! That is nice stuff!

Thanks Peter. We were pleasantly surprised when it rolled in front of the shop.

[Mark Bolton]

Cherry is my favorite also although I always start with the rough stuff. Working with S4S must save a ton of time. Congrats and thanks for sharing.

We work with a lot of rough too and your exactly right. Way too much work. We try to bring all our material in s3s and overthickness. Sometimes 13/16, sometimes just skip planed and we can often get 5/4 out of the skip material. Surfacing quantities of material without a SLR, monster planer (preferrably two side), and an ability to deal with trailer loads of chips is just way too much work for us. To pay a few cents a foot and not have to deal with all of that is a no brainer for us.

We just ran a bunch of rough popular and hard maple and it was miserable. Every time I say never again but sometimes there is no other option.