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Have fun building one! It's a good experience. I have visited with our local funeral directors and they really like my caskets! They have gave me some pointers on things to improve upon, but they are pretty impressed. They told me that they have seen some pretty bad homebuilt ones.

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Thank you for watching. Any wood that you want to use will work. I've built them out of alder, cedar, pine, white oak, walnut. It doesn't matter. Some cemeteries will put the casket into a concrete vault. At our simple country cemetery they are put directly into the ground where they will return to the earth naturally.

I believe the long boards were 4ft long. There's a link in the description to Jack McKee's book that was very useful to building the boards! It has the plans with all of the dimensions and eliminated all of the guess work for me. If I were to build another set of these builder boards I would do it in plywood. The cedar pickets only lasted a couple of years until they warped out and many of the notches snapped off. Have fun building your's!

I'm glad that you enjoyed the video. I hope that it'll help you build the boards! The cedar pickets that I used are 5/8" thick, but you could use 3/4" plywood or any other material. If you use plywood you will have to be sure to apply some outdoor poly or urethane. The cedar may be expensive, but you save money not buying poly. Let me know how your boards come out!

I didn't plane them. I wish that I would have. They were mostly pretty close to the same thickness. There were a few that were a little thicker and were too tight in the notches. I sanded them down a little then they fit ok. I was trying to keep the rough look of the board, but I would suggest sending them all through the planer.