5/8-in x 5-1/2-in x 5-ft Western Red Cedar Flat-Top Fence Picket

Don't just grab boards look them over 4 quality

I like the smell of the wood I'm making a shelf in my storage

cost effective

works well

Met my intended purpose

Bought to make a few blue bird boxes. Worked well…wish it could have been thicker. These are fence boards…hence, had to search through quite a lot to avoid splits, etc.

Imperfections make it necessary to pick each board

Reasonable price

Can Be a Gold mine !

This assessment depends on the scope of your fence project. If your pickets don't 'matter' buy the cheaper pickets. For me, its a horizontal fence at the front of my house approximately 35 linear ft. or 5x, 6x6 panels and 2x 3x6' gates. Initial design was to use composite deck boards, but after shopping the most basic (by Trex, TimberTech, etc) my minimum cost was about $1000. I purchased a few of these boards simply for my initial mockup/layout, went to lowes and found some of these boards w...