Timber identification help.

[mickster]

I wonder if someone can ID this timber for me please?

I have done some searching, but haven't yet come across anything stating the type of wood likely to have been used.

It is a surplus piece of reclaimed timber, a slate-roofing spar/rafter, which I have had for about 10 years and hadn't found a further use for it...until I recently got my mini-lathe.

Pics of a cleaned up offcut below:

End grain-
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/M ... 0_0164.jpg

Close grain & knot-
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/M ... 0_0166.jpg

Coarse grain-
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/M ... 0_0168.jpg


Thanks in advance,

Mick.

 

[jasonB]

It looks like a piece of old growth pine, rather different to the fast grown whitewood you find these days. Could be one of several pines or maybe Douglas Fur but that is a little more redder in colour usually.

Jason

 

[jonny boy]

Douglas fur.
jon.

 

[Slim]

Pitch Pine I reckon.

 

[mickster]

If it helps any, the pics above were taken with flash, under fluorescent lights.

Below, is a little tea light holder made from the same timber, finished with clear cellulose sanding sealer and photographed under the same conditions.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/M ... 0_0170.jpg

And the same piece under fluorescent light only, no flash.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/M ... 0_0171.jpg

EDIT: the finish inside and within the grooves is artificial...please ignore it

 

[Chainsaw Nut]

Looks identical to the pine I got hold of from a roof of a house built in the 30's. I agree to one of the previous replies totally different to todays, great deal harder, clearly grown slower.

 

[Old joiner]

Being reclaimed timber lends a few clues, and some speculation on my part. Many years ago a lot of Russian red deal was used in the UK. If you look at the growth rings, even the wider spaced ones are quite close suggesting slow growth, and a cold climate. The tight rings suggest a period of even colder seasons. If memory serves me right, the Port of Archangel, is unaccessible for six months during winter. It's b***y cold there. I've seen this in old mouldings and samples we have had to copy many times.

 

[mickster]

The band of tight rings is over an increase of about 26mm in radius and contains roughly 67 rings before they start to increase in width again. The next band of 7 wider rings continues before narrowing again for 6 rings. The remainder have less drastic changes.

The widest ring is roughly 2mm.

And there are those who think climate change is a new phenomonen. :roll:

I could try to search meteorological data for similar historical patterns, but I'm not that desperate for a positive ID. :lol:

 

[mickster]

This is the timber in it's un-altered state:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/M ... 0_0173.jpg

Oh, thanks and welcome to the forum Old joiner.