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Manny said:
Last night I looked around in my shop for some scrap pine.
Nope nada

Looked in the firewood pile... (wait i live in Southern California its 92 degree right now I don't have a firewood pile.

Curse you Landon

Off to Home Depot But wait Rockler is on the way. I know I know nothing high end or unique can't break the rules already.

The guy at the rockler store actually laughed out loud when I told him I was looking for a pine pen blank.

Had he never heard of Huon pine? Or 300 year old reclaimed long leaf pine?

No boards available either.

So temptation was never a factor. Although I did look up exotic pine species on line last night. Just checking of course


So back in the truck and off to Home Depot

But wait Lowes is on the way.
Lowes pine section is tiny and all they have is "premium" pine. We all know what that means. Uniform grain patterns little to no knots.....Booorrrrring

I did see lots of redwood, and douglas fir lumber that looked interesting. But Landon said pine. So after a few minutes of wistful thinking I pressed on to Home Depot.

I was not disappointed HD had a much larger pine section (Lowes over here is kind of snooty) They even had a low grade pine section. Lots of wonderful boards with knots and coloring.

I picked the best one (the guy working there thought I was crazy) cost me under 4 bucks.

Now what to do.
Enjoy the pics
Cheers all and good luck
Manny
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No Southern Yellow Pine 2 x 4s or 2 x 6s? What do you folks frame houses with out there?
 
wolftat said:
As long as Douglas fir (all we get around here) is allowed, I'm in.
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Ditto here on the rock. You'd be hard pressed to find a stick of pine on an island construction site – at least during the framing stage. It's all Douglas fir, hemlock, and spruce. Had a quick run through our local home depot -- none in the dimension lumber section.

We've been decimated over the past decade by the Mountain Pine Beatle, which has killed a large percentage of the lodge pole pine forests throughout the province.

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If a beetle-killed tree is harvested before it falls, it can still be milled, producing dimension lumber with a distinctive blue stain.

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It's popular for furniture making, but you couldn't call it 'exotic' – it falls under the 'making lemonade when all you have is lemons' category. Might be interesting to find some of this stained wood for the PITH pen project?

Has anyone tried it?

Steve
 
Smitty37 said:
Manny said:
Last night I looked around in my shop for some scrap pine.
Nope nada

Looked in the firewood pile... (wait i live in Southern California its 92 degree right now I don't have a firewood pile.

Curse you Landon

Off to Home Depot But wait Rockler is on the way. I know I know nothing high end or unique can't break the rules already.

The guy at the rockler store actually laughed out loud when I told him I was looking for a pine pen blank.

Had he never heard of Huon pine? Or 300 year old reclaimed long leaf pine?

No boards available either.

So temptation was never a factor. Although I did look up exotic pine species on line last night. Just checking of course


So back in the truck and off to Home Depot

But wait Lowes is on the way.
Lowes pine section is tiny and all they have is "premium" pine. We all know what that means. Uniform grain patterns little to no knots.....Booorrrrring

I did see lots of redwood, and douglas fir lumber that looked interesting. But Landon said pine. So after a few minutes of wistful thinking I pressed on to Home Depot.

I was not disappointed HD had a much larger pine section (Lowes over here is kind of snooty) They even had a low grade pine section. Lots of wonderful boards with knots and coloring.

I picked the best one (the guy working there thought I was crazy) cost me under 4 bucks.

Now what to do.
Enjoy the pics
Cheers all and good luck
Manny
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No Southern Yellow Pine 2 x 4s or 2 x 6s? What do you folks frame houses with out there?
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I work in a steel mill so hopefully steel studs! Hey can I use steel instead? I'd need to borrow Skipra'ts equipment........and his brain of course

Manny
 
I'll be ripping this out before July. I think I can get a few blanks out of this old growth pine. There's even some variation in color in there.
 

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I've got some super secret pine in the shop. It's grown in the holler's and then reformulated:biggrin:.
 
Count me in. I have about 400 bf of SYP if someone wants some I'll stick a couple of blanks in an envelope and send it along

Sharon
 
Sign me up Landon. I had to think about a few variations and have come up with a couple that may work. And it is still pine.
 
Pine...reallly now...??..I started collecting blanks of different species wood and have quite a few...but pine...nope...nada...none..zip..zilch...told SWMBO that i needed to run by HomeDepot and pick up a 2x4...she asked why..and so i told her i needed a pen blanks....ahhhh, the looks you get when you don't have a camera....

...taking the summer off from shows and so should have time to make a pen...

...so, I would like to play...please count me in..
 
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