White Pine Timber Frame

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White pine timber frame.

When planning a timber frame home or other building consumers are often asked to choose from a variety of wood species. Creamy white or pale straw to light reddish brown. White pine wood has medium strength is easily worked and stains and finishes well. Because it is less expensive than douglas fir it is often used for residential timber frames.

It has a good straight grain can be easily stained planes well and is a great wood for hand hewing. The sapwood is a pale yellow to nearly white. The estimated price of your timber is 0 price shown for rough cut non kiln dried material. Rogers artist designer and craftsman ted lott creates beautiful miniature timber frame structures with eastern white pine using found vintage furniture and other objects as.

Pine is a very stable wood. Eastern white pine is a particularly good wood for timber framing as it is easy to work with being a softwood but it is well behaved when properly treated and is quite strong for its weight. It doesn t deflect or twist excessively like oak and for most applications it can easily span as much as 20 feet. Moderately soft moderately low in strength moderately durable and moderate shrinkage.

Pine is not as strong. The heartwood is light brown sometimes with a slightly reddish hue. Eastern white pine is one of the most popular choices found in heavy timber frame construction all over the united states and beyond. Eastern white pine sculptures by ted lott by s a.

A softwood which grows from maine to northern georgia and in the great lake states. Eastern white pine pinus strobus the moderate timber.