That was what I was going to do if my friend had shipped his panelling over.
Combined it with sheetrock.
I visited the owner of one of the biggest and oldest lumberyards here, both native and imported woods, about 15 years ago.
He had bought a large table lamp , I turned from solid elm burl, at a woodturning exhibition.
His house was panneled with wood from all over the planet. It was such an amazing place to walk through for a wood lover.
I managed to put a name to almost all of it, which must have impressed him, because by the end of my visit, he fetched a 3 foot long 2"X2" , gave it to me and asked me to identify it.
I have a real good memory for smell ( used to do GREAT in blindtasting wine) , so I smelled it and told him it was Rio rosewood.
That stuff has been extinct ( meaning, not logged anymore) since the 60es.
Then he brought out a whole load of it and gave it to me. He had acquired it from an old woodturner, who retired 30 yers ago, and now he figured it would have a good home at my shop.
We're talking about 1500-2000$ worth of wood.
What the heck do you say to a guy like that?
I said thank you and I'll try to put it to good use.
I have used some of it for furniture restoration, but there is one big block that I think may be the biggest one around today, I have been looking at that ever since then, wondering if I'll ever be good enough to make something out of it.
I think I'll give it to an violin builder in Copenhagen, like it was given to me.