Thanks for the comments.
Pottz, I’ve started treating walnut cutoffs like precious metals. The couple who run my favorite lumberyard paint a grim picture of the future for walnut lumber. They say that it’s getting harder for them to find good logs because of some disease that’s killing many walnut trees. (They may be referencing thousand cankers disease.) Right now, they’re selling it for $21/board foot. You work at a lumberyard, right? Are you hearing/seeing that?