Is this scots pine?

[jetsetwilly]

Got hold of an Edinburgh church pew, uncertain age but looks like machined joints with hand-cut screw slots and cut nails. It's very dense for softwood - rough estimate 750kg/m^3 - but my best guess is scots pine - thoughts? It was a ~5m pew so I've got quite a bit of this.

 

[Jameshow]

Could be Douglas for with that redness...

 

[thetyreman]

pews were often made out of pitch pine, it could be scots pine though, I have bought pieces that nice with very tight growth rings.

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

Is there a lot of sap in the wood and a strong scent

 

[Noel]

Looks like pitched pine, especially your comment about density and weight.

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

Could be parana pine, it was once very much in use but now seldom seen

 

[Rewound]

I have been working with that a lot recently (it was all from an old church) it looks very much like Pitch Pine. It is a very hard and dense "soft-wood" with beautiful end grain

 

[johnnyb]

Southern yellow pine

 

[Chris152]

Lonesome pine.

(Whatever it is, it looks very good.)