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Where to find wide, thick, & clear southern yellow pine

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
OK, I know I'm new here & looking for a needle in a haystack! I hope you'll bear with me.

As an introduction, I've been building furniture for about 40 years but have not done much in the last 6-8 years other than an electric guitar my son & I built, but that's another story…

RE: the Southern Yellow Pine project… My wife, who never does projects, made some shelves out of SYP 2×10
construction material that turned out great. She made the stain (dye really) following a recipe she read about using vinegar that had soaked with steel wool for about a week as a 1st coat, and then the same solution (I think), with iced tea as the 2nd coat. The result is hard to describe, but they really came out great.

The rub is we just redid a fireplace in stone & she wants me to make a mantle to match. The mantle needs to be about 3 1/2" x 11 1/2" x 80". I could glue up wood to get the required thickness, but, on this mantle, the ends will show & that wouldn't look right, so…

I'm looking for a source where I could get thick, wide, & clear SYP. Small, tight knots would be OK but I can't have any bark inclusion or loose knots. And, of course, it needs to be dry.

Anyone know of a source for something like that?
 
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#6 ·
Thanks for the quick replies. Have tried a few local sources. Can get a couple of local sawmills to cut for me, but all say: a) have to pay in advance; b) it'll be wet and I'll have to dry it; and, c) no guarantee on quality with respect to knots. Given pines of the size needed to make a board like I'm after aren't common around here, that's not sounding like a high success probability option.

I'm probably going to end up doing something like what dschlic1 suggests but thought I'd see whether anyone knew of a source first.
 
#7 ·
Too bad I'm not closer. I have a lot of dry southern yellow pine, very clear but it would still need to be glued up. I believe they are 1.5" thick but long enough and wide enough.

If you want me to look into shipping I can check but that might have to be freight due to length and weight.
 
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