Cyprus Pine

[PenPal]

Sold as fencing,lengths 6 feet by 3 inches by 1 inch thick or 4 ft long.Price 2 to 4 dollars.The timber is hard and spliniers or splits without care.Makes stunning floorboards and pens. Peter

 

[PenPal]

Missing Pic Peter

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[redfishsc]

I am 90% sure, based on the pics and the fact that you say it is for flooring, that you have what's called "Australian cypress" in my area.

If it is, it will have a very acrid smell, sorta like lignum vitae and sorta like eastern red cedar.


Any way you have it, it makes a very nice pen. I don't have pics (doh!) but I have turned several pens out of the material and I have about 20 blanks at the house I have yet to use. It sands a bit gummy from all the rosin in it, but wet sanding with linseed oil may help cure that.

Anyhow, it is a very fine grained wood and produces a very silky feel. I recommend just to friction burn on a couple coats of linseed oil and then topcoat with carnauba wax (ie, no film build like CA or lacquer) since the wood just feels so nice and silky.

 

[MDWine]

Man! I sure would like to find some of that around here. Sure is pretty!

 

[GaryMGg]

Michael,
You're closer to it than you realize: http://www.moxontimbers.com/lumber.htm

 

[MDWine]

Excellent!! Thanks!

 

[Abrock75]

AHHHHHHHH another sight to buy wood God my wife is going to kill me......... NAh[]