Larry Jaques wrote:
On 17 May 2004 05:25:26 -0700, (Conan The Librarian)
brought forth from the murky depths:
[pine]
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!
I can understand you not being too gung-ho about that sort of thing.
I know if the only wood I ever saw was the Borg "pine" stuff, I'd
probably give up woodworking.
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?
I dunno, Lar. I don't seem to have that problem. :-)
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...
No stain there, just shellac. What looks like blotching is actually
some curl. Here's a photo of a different project that shows some of the
neat grain the stuff has:
http://uweb.txstate.edu/~cv01/repisa.gif
The panel in that picture was about as heavy as a maple panel of
similar size, and the wood *scraped* beautifully. Not your granddad's
pine for sure. (Well, actually it might be more like what he could have
gotten.)
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.
Tendjew. You were starting to worry me. I was wondering if you
normally burned the stuff when you lived in lowCal.
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.
Thanks. Beeyoootiful grain in that section of log.
Chuck Vance