{"id":11955,"date":"2000-01-01T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2000-01-01T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/?p=11955"},"modified":"2019-06-27T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:31:52","slug":"what-woods-can-i-get-10-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/lumber-help-faq\/what-woods-can-i-get-10-wide\/","title":{"rendered":"What Woods Can I Get 10+ Wide?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/images\/faqs\/bell-curve-lumber-widths.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anything wider than 10&#8243; is pretty uncommon. Not impossible &#8211; just not normal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you have three tried-and-true ways to get exceptionally wide boards:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Glue it up from a couple of narrower boards and trim it to your desired size.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Use plywood<\/li><li>Find a satisfactory piece in the lumber pile<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of our lumber ranges from 5&#8243; to 7&#8243; wide, but there are always random exceptions to the rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a list of a few species that are <em>usually&nbsp;<\/em>pretty easy to find wider boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Any type of Mahogany (Genuine Mahogany, Sapele, African Mahogany)<\/li><li>Monkeypod (Raintree)<\/li><li>Movingui<\/li><li>African Padauk<\/li><li>Purpleheart<\/li><li>Red Grandis<\/li><li>Cherry<\/li><li>Beech<\/li><li>Ash<\/li><li>Red oak<\/li><li>Country Maple<\/li><li>Poplar<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardwood\n lumber is a raw material, and we stock it in raw form. That means it \nhasn&#8217;t been processed into specific sizes yet, it&#8217;s still in random \nsizes as it came off the tree.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n custom woodworking, this kind of random sizing usually okay because \nyou&#8217;re going to cut and\/or join and glue to create the sizes you need \nfor your project.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s \nperfectly okay to glue narrower boards to create wider ones &#8211; and it&#8217;s \nthe way woodworkers have been doing it for many, many years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/images\/faqs\/glue-up-panel.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anything wider than 10&#8243; is pretty uncommon. Not impossible &#8211; just not normal.&nbsp; So you have three tried-and-true ways to get exceptionally wide boards: Glue it up from a couple of narrower boards and trim it to your desired size.&nbsp; Use plywood Find a satisfactory piece in the lumber pile Most of our lumber ranges <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/woodworking-101\/lumber-help-faq\/what-woods-can-i-get-10-wide\/\">&#8230;<br \/><small><em><strong>Read More<\/strong><\/em> <i class=\"fa fa-arrow-circle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lumber-help-faq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11957,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11955\/revisions\/11957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodworkerssource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}