Knotty Eastern White Pine

Yellow pine heartwood ranges in colour from pale yellow to a light reddish-brown; it is sometimes marked by resin ducts that form brown lines on longitudinal surfaces. The grain is usually straight and even. The wood has uniform, medium texture, and the growth rings are inconspicuous.

Properties:

Yellow pine is soft and light, and is classified as weak in all the strength categories. It is not suitable for steam bending. It works very readily with both machine and hand tools, and has only a slight blunting effect on cutting edges. Yellow pine planes easily, giving a smooth finish, and moulds, bores, routs, mortises, glues, carves, nails and screws well. It responds well to sanding, and takes paint and varnish well. The wood accepts stain easily and polishes very well. Untreated, it weathers to a light grey.

Seasoning:

The wood dries well, but the sapwood can suffer form blue fungi staining. Movement in service is medium.

Durability:

It is not durable and has little natural resistance to decay fungi or insects. The sapwood is permeable for preservative treatment, the heartwood moderately so.

Typical Uses:

The sapwood is used for patternmaking, and the heartwood for domestic and rustic furniture, turnery, window frames, doors, kitchen furniture, building, boxes, packing cases, dowels, cabins and general woodwork. Character logs are sliced to make knotty pine panelling, and rotary-cut for veneers. Suitably treated wood is used for telephone poles, railway sleepers (railroad ties) and posts.

Pinus strobus (Pinaceae)

Also called:

white pine, spruce pine, northern white pine, Quebec pine, Weymouth pine

Grows:

Canada and USA

Weight per Board Foot:

2.6 lbs

Typical dry weight:

34lb/ft3 (390kg/m3)

Specific Gravity:

.39

Typical Height:

60-130ft (18-40m)

Trunk Diameter:

2ft 6in-4ft (0.8-1.2m)**Price is per Board Foot ; Clear $ 5.00 per bf
10 bf min