Beetle kill pine at HD?

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Chatham PenWorks

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Stopped by the Orange Borg today, and found this beautiful board. I'm thinking it's what I've heard called beetle kill pine, but none of the pics I've seen are quite like it. Labeled as Common Board, smells like pine, and where I can make out the grain, it looks like pine.

If anyone can say with any certainty, I'd appreciate it.



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Beetle kill pine...

CP,

I live here in Colorado, where quite a bit of our forests have been inundated by the dreaded critters. Heck, most of the west side of Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park is dead......

The blue stain in the grain is a dead giveaway. It is beetle killed pine. Be happy you found it at HD and got it as common board. Here, the stuff can be insanely priced for nicely figured boards. Hence, the reason SWMBO will not let me buy any.......

Now, if we could have gotten 3 weeks of -15 degree weather up in the park, there would be an end to such beautiful wood, but, we wouldn't have to worry about RMNP going up in smoke either.....


Enjoy your spoils!

edet fur spelink......
 
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It looks like stain resulting from the mountain pine beetle that has been killing thousands of hectares of lodgepole pine in BC and Alberta.

Wade
 
Chatham PenWorks said:
Sylvanite said:
It almost looks like Norfolk Island Pine to me.
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I thought of that. How in the world would it end up in Home Depot as Common Board?
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Well, you guys are correct, the wood getting that blue stain all over, is most typical of the Norfolk Pine, nothings gets that blue stain/spalting faster however, there are 2 "things" that tell me it can't be it, one is the knots colour/structure and secondly is the space/board area above and below the knots, Norfolk Pine has a series of branches (normally 6, ideally 7) coming out, about every 2' to 3', which for the knots we see, this space increase as the trees grows however, looking at the knots size, this board has been processed from a medium size Pine tree and in my experience with Pines, there are a few Pine species possible, certainly not Norfolk Pine in my view and from the details mention before but, I'm inclined to point it to the Stone Pine species, the knot structure/colour and surrounding rings, are what I see in the Stone Pine that I have some to work with so, easy for me to compare...!

As always, there is a possibility that I read it wrong and is something else, there are far more Pine tree species than most people realise so, this is my interpretation of what I can see from your 3 pics...!

Cheers
George
 
Because of the coloring, it's sometimes called Denim Pine. It could be any type of pine as long as it's stained, or, so I've been told by a person who uses guite a bit of it.
Len
 
Lived in Lake Arrowhead, San Luis Obispo, Morro Bay where the Pine Bark Beetle destroyed trees. When there is a drought the trees cannot produce enough defensive "pitch" to thwart the beetle. If you want this board, there is allot of it on the West Coast.
 
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