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Hesh wrote:
"I'm surprised at how much walnut is now when I was building full time 15 years ago it was dirt cheap and everywhere. That was part of why I would replace too, easy to get and cheap, some of my favorite things "

I bought air dried rough sawn walnut for 75 cents a board foot when I started working with wood. It's a bit more now. (that was a half century ago, though)