On 17 May 2004 05:25:26 -0700, (Conan The Librarian)
brought forth from the murky depths:


I can't say that I mind the smell, and you just have to pick your
boards carefully to avoid knots. As for it being soft and splitting
easily, that's true with most of what you can buy at your local Borg,
but I have had the pleasure of working some stuff (guato pine) that is
as hard as dense as many hardwoods. This stuff in particular had

I'm finding a lot more green doug fir up here. It's nice to work
when wet (soft) and hardens up to oaklike density without twisting.
All we had in LoCal were birdseye SPF (mostly waaavy pine) with
some nice spruce studs at triple the price. Feh! Anyway, some day
soon I'll make that sheet-goods cart out of the 2x8 DF. It's raining
to day so I'll be spreading the last of the Weed'n'Feed tomorrow,
opening another 1-sq/ft of space in the shop. It's garage sale time.
Why do so many little projects always seem to get in the way of real
wooddorking stuff?


outstanding working properties (as well as a bit of figure):
http://uweb.txstate.edu/~cv01/stool2.jpg

Whatever floats yer boat. Got another pic of that with different
lighting? It looks stained in that pic, and you know how I get...


Huh? a -firewood- gloat? Hmmm...

I don't know what you use for firewood now that you're up in
Oregon, but down here, a 4' section of mesquite log with a 24"

Mesquite? I totally missed that in the original post, and the
photo is uncommented, so Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me. I honor your
gloat now, suckah.


diameter is considered worth saving. In fact, some folks might even
try to make something out of it:
http://uweb.txstate.edu/~cv01/mesquitable.jpg

Yeah, she were purty.


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