Rough sawn cypress wood has a rough-saw texture and only approximate or rough dimensions. Moreover, your cypress wood could have stick marks left during the drying process, could suffer some weathering (grey or charcoal colored), and could have some small metal banding marks where it was bundled together. More.
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