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Originally Posted by reds_21 alright guys, this is shawn (reds21). i have a question about the lumber again. i was just at home depot and i found some pine. the confusion i had was that they had white pine and some others. i found a peice of laminated pine which was the exact size and all that i needed but is there anything wrong with laminated pine?? compared to a "normal" pine? when i looked at it closely it looked as if there were a bunch of strips of pine all glued together to make the 24 x 48 peice of lumber. can anyone give me any information on this wood wether it is good or not?
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Nothing wrong with that pine. I used it in the library centre I built (photo attached). The nice thing about that product is that you can buy it in widths to suit your project requirements and if you don't have jointing capability, wide clamps and patience to join boards into wider panels (my situation 4 years ago when I built this) it allows you to continue. If you can do all of the foregoing then buy the cheaper, narrower pine boards and have at it.
Now that I have a jointer, planer and a number of Bessey clamps, I would buy it rough and do the board preparation (unless I was in a rush and the client was paying for the materials and I was donating my time, as in this case).