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When I built my house I had about $1000 of "KEMPAS" hard wood floor left over. As I'm no longer a contractor and I'm now paying tourist prices that put the value at over $1500. When the General wanted to pull up the rug in the MBR and replace it with hard wood I saw an opportunity to use the leftover flooring I already had. Mixing lot numbers on HW flooring is generally not a good idea but I went for it. (cheap bassturd) The new batch was a little thinner, a little narrower, and the tongue was cut higher. Both old and new had mixed shades but I like that. I set up a workbench in the room with a router, chop saw and table saw. The router was inlaid flush with the bench and the tables saw had custom fence that trapped the boards and cut every one of them the same. The old boards were 25% of the job so I decided to make them match the new lot. One I got the fixtures adjusted it went pretty quick. The general is temporarily happy.