Donald and I visited a reputable dealer:
And we got ourselves twenty feet of this:
It's plain-sawn American Red Oak, and in this state it was pretty rough. It needed to be squared up, finished, and reduced to a manageable weight. First we put it all through several passes in the planer, which leveled the surface (mostly) and reduced the thickness. On the left of the bottom photo is after they went through the planer, and on the right is how thick it was before that.
Don straightened up the edges with the jointer and then we used the circular saw cut most of the pieces down to the size we needed, as specified in my cut-list.
None of the boards was wide enough to make a side board or the lid, so we had to glue together pairs of boards like so:
After that I was on my own for a while. When these boards were dry enough I spent a long time scraping off the dried glue at the seams.
Now nobody's the wiser that these aren't solid boards. Another thing we did that day was use a table saw to cut tongues for the centerpieces of the front and back.
There was a nice pile of usable parts by the end of it.
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