The lattice build has begun!!!

[Gary G™]

Hi Gary,

Actually I never thought of searching for white cedar in 1"x widths.  Each post is $42-ish and they yield approx 30 lattice pieces each.

I just checked Lowe's and they sell the individual 19/32-in x 5-1/2-in x 6-ft Cedar Dog ear Fence Picket. Hmmm....I could plane them down a bit to get to my desired thickness.  Each board could yield 6 lattice pieces...hmmm...let me chew on that.

I buy almost all my lumber from sawmills or wholesale lumberyards other than construction grade materials.
Not sure about white cedar here in Florida; we get a lot of red cedar and I’d use Cypress because it’s readily available and rot resistant.
Last time I bought rough sawn Cypress was several weeks ago; my cost was less than $2.00/BF and they were generous as the 4/4 was more like 5/4.
I also had need for 1/2” thick Cypress and they charged a small fee to resaw the 4/4. It was somewhere around $.50 per board. Negligible.

Having said this, an 8’ — 5”x5” at $42 is 16.6 BF so that’s $2.53/BF—which seems pretty good.