This small gift box build was made for a wedding gift for a relative. The design is inspired by my tongue and groove blanket chest with a slight Asian flair. Materials cost to build this blanket chest ...

Common lumber: This is just plain wood, old-fashioned 2-by-4s and 2-by-6s and 1-by-12s. The measurements refer to rough-cut lumber. With milled lumber, customers pay for a lot of sawdust left ...

Just cut it as short and narrow as you can in the rough state — but not less than 12 inches long — to get the maximum yield in thickness. Rough lumber can be tricky to crosscut safely.

In one year, the price of 1,000 square feet of framing lumber has increased from $450 to $1,050.

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Hoisting a block of weathered, rough-cut lumber to his shoulder, Campbell explains how the bikes come from something that would otherwise go to waste.

Hardwood lumber is graded differently than softwood lumber. Hardwoods are graded in the rough state before they are planed smooth, and the grade is based on the poorest quality side.

Star Lumber & Supply started in a chicken coop near Maple and West streets in 1939, and now it is constructing a new building there next to its existing store.

And the increased availability of rough-cut lumber could prompt additional farm and ranch development projects, further aiding economic growth in and around Glacier County.

JOHN DAY — Rich Fulton watched a worker feed a piece of rough-cut lumber onto the planer at Malheur Lumber last Tuesday, his eyes locked on the man’s practiced movements. “That’s the last ...

NPR As Lumber Prices Climb, DIYers Cut Out The Middle Man And Mill Their Own The price of lumber has more than doubled during the pandemic. Now people are turning to extreme DIY for building projects.