nice!!
What I got came from a job in Nashville in 02, renovating an old adult learning center. It previously had a major renovation and addition in 1960. One of the major things we did was tear out the old wood framed windows to prep for newer Aluminum double hung ones, and, one of the first things I noticed was them tossing all the old wood(which I recognized as Redwood) into the dumpster. I immediately started hauling what I could get of it to the house. Most of the boards from the outside trim were full 1" x 8"(exact measure, not 3/4x7 1/2), and internals were also redwood, but milled to accommodate the window weights. I cleaned most of the 1x8, and got a planer during a later layoff, and planed most of the old paint off(it was lead based paint). I had a pretty good stack of it still, when I moved the 600 miles to OK, about 6 or 700 running feet of the 1x8s if I recall correctly. They were still the full 1" thick, but I had ripped a 1/4" off each side bringing them to 7 1/2" widths, and removing the nail holes along each side.
It now trims my front porch with an all around lattice, holds up my tomatoes with a large framework, and wraps my compost bins in styleAs yours, I have a few boards left, not sure what I'll ever do with them
One thing I forgot to mention. When they installed that Redwood in 1960, it was fresh from the California Redwood forest, just prior to being banned from being cut. It was all "old growth" Redwood(the "real" stuff)
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