This fir isn't going to a local shop. It is shipped across an ocean, packed in containers with silica gel to drink the humidity. The price is no longer about wood. It is about the Taiwanese chip shortage that delays port cranes. It is about the Brazilian real falling against the dollar, making Brazilian mahogany cheaper, so your Pacific fir must compete.
The cost of solid wood is the cost of its ghosts: the 40% of the tree that did not make the grade. topsolid wood price
You see a surface. But now you know the story: the eighty-year-old fir, the logger’s diesel, the sawyer’s gamble, the kiln’s sweat, the shipping container’s drift, the CNC operator’s sleepless night, and the five previous prototypes that failed TopSolid’s stress analysis. This fir isn't going to a local shop