it’s soft wood (also softwood) so don’t make a table from it or anything, but in the summer Lowe’s usually sells 5/4x6x8 cedar decking for $13. It’s 1” after their surfacing, which means you can get milled 3/4”+ furniture boards out of it much cheaper than from big box pine. Looks nicer, too.
I pick up a few boards every time I go, because it’s only available in the summer. The grain pattern is super bold and the color change will look nice under an oil finish. I’m excited to finish this last-for-now round of shop improvements and crank out a couple of cedar chests with this stuff.
What a big box store carries will vary where you are - this is Atlantic white cedar, which isn’t as aromatic as a red cedar (still smells nice) but also won’t make you sick as shit if you accidentally breathe some of it
on the other hand, I regard southerners with some animosity, for they get good white pine and we get hemlock-fir shit that is soft enough to mark with a fingernail
The thing that some people, and by some people I mean cowards, don’t like about white cedar is that the sapwood/heartwood transition can be almost white, but whatever, I can find something to do with that
