Hello all,
I'm relatively new to woodworking and have a question about the kind of wood I should be purchasing. I live in Wisconsin so the local hardware store is Menards and they have three distinct kinds of what home depot would call "common" boards: standard, quality, and select.
I'm assuming these are all pine or a similar softwood but I'm wondering if the only difference between these is the quality of the milling process. The more expensive "select" boards are significantly more expensive (~5 times the "standard" board) and they do look nicer but I can't tell if it's actually better wood or just more precisely milled to be easier to work with.
Does anyone know if that's the only difference? I'm essentially debating whether it would be better to just get a planer and be able to buy the cheap stuff and then just make it nicer.
I'm relatively new to woodworking and have a question about the kind of wood I should be purchasing. I live in Wisconsin so the local hardware store is Menards and they have three distinct kinds of what home depot would call "common" boards: standard, quality, and select.
I'm assuming these are all pine or a similar softwood but I'm wondering if the only difference between these is the quality of the milling process. The more expensive "select" boards are significantly more expensive (~5 times the "standard" board) and they do look nicer but I can't tell if it's actually better wood or just more precisely milled to be easier to work with.
Does anyone know if that's the only difference? I'm essentially debating whether it would be better to just get a planer and be able to buy the cheap stuff and then just make it nicer.
