I am going to make a very basic cutting board. I saw on a website that I should use hardwoods (oak, maple, poplar, cedar?). I went to Lowe's and they had 1x2x2 pre-cut and sanded for about 1.50 - 1.70 each. By this price, and needing about ten of them, I would spend $34.00 on the wood. I can buy it cheaper (I know I won't have the "experience.") When I was in school, we made one from rough pieces of cut wood and we had to sand and make it nice. I feel too much like I am cheating when I didn't cut the wood into strips to begin with, but the sanded and fixed up pieces is too much. I don't wan't a snap together model.
Where can I get the wood so that it isn't all fixed up for me (and I don't want to cut down any trees!)? Cost? Thanks.