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.)

 

[pgrbff]

I'd guess pitch pine.

 

[SammyQ]

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

That's not parana. I have 8 boards of it; the material between the rings is much 'duskier' in parana.
This stuff is a dead ringer for pitch pine. Like someone said above: the scent of resin when you saw it up is just wonderful.

 

[whereistheceilidh]

.....another for Pitch Pine. The smell when cut is quite distinctive. Otherwise Douggie Fir ....again a distinctive smell when cut & less dense.
You could possibly weigh & check density though smell should do it. Good Pitch Pine is a bit precious!

 

[Phill05]

100% Pitch pine.

 

[Katomi woodsmith]

I have some 1960s chambour joists that I am using for bowls, looking at this I know they were pine so they are prob pitch pine

 

[jim1950]

I vote for pitch pine, panelled a room in a large county house with reclaimed Pitch pine a few years ago looks exactly the same