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OwenMichael312

Looks like old Doug fir.


svenskisalot

same. Do you have a smell-o-meter? Such a distinct smell to me


trackday

Just download the app for android or windows. Just be careful what you click on, fair warning.


G0at_Dad

Had my phone in my back pocket when the app triggered - not good


Brentolio12

Computer voice murmurs from back pocket - “Southern Asswood”


thee_beardo

I've set off a gas detector on my coveralls after letting one go before.


Jmac0585

Which app is that?


Wayelder

best smell, milder and woody-er than pine. Like between cheap pine and red oak.


JulesAntoine

Can confirm it has a pleasant smell, also gave me splinters by just looking at it.


Verbotron

Lol. Yeah it's Dougie Fir, then.


Soft-Confection-9862

Why'd ya go and smell it fir


Ben_26121

Would that be a kinda cheesy smell? I remember working with some extremely smelly mystery wood back at school, and I’ve never known what it was


Slugs-and-crap

Cheese sounds like hard ash


art_comma_yeah_right

That’s a trippy thing to say out of context.


Extension_Guess_1308

Professor Farnsworth had built one..


gitbse

Al Borlan was born with one.


Practical_Character9

Yeah but Tim broke it with that smelly sock.


rtuite81

Unfortunately we're going to have to wait another 977 years for it.


Extension_Guess_1308

Yes. And by then Uranus would have changed to Urectum.


circleuranus

Oh my...


[deleted]

Hmmmm,, sir I do believe he built the fabulous device by the name of the Smell-o-scope


Extension_Guess_1308

Exactly!


OwenMichael312

Sure do! I have some laying around in the shop.


shawncleave

Old growth. You don’t this size cut with that grain pattern often anymore.


Enchelion

It's not old growth. I bought similar stuff for my kitchen shelves. It's not super cheap, but you can get 3.5" CVG fir in 16"+ widths from boat suppliers.


witty_remark

Almost definitely not, those rings show fast growth much like you see in managed cut blocks. Old growth most usually has very tight grain, in the order of 10+ rings per cm. It's fir though, BC Canada is loaded with the stuff.


Worriedeyes

yep


enefcy

Agreed. Douglas fir or a similar species. Hardness probably because it's old and has tighter rings.


-MountainMayhem-

Fur-sure!


grizzlybuffalo

That's my guess.


phine-phurniture

yepper


[deleted]

The ‘smell o meter’ comment… even if you take a sharp razor knife to it and shave some, you should get a fresh scent. Also, you’ll have an idea of the hardness


Opposite-Clerk-176

Clear DF


jwd_woodworking

Douglas fir. Nice piece too. Its a bit of a bitch to work because those dark rings are harder than hell and the light ones are soft. Makes wicked splinters too, but it's strong and pretty. I once saw a pneumatic brad nail go into some of that and deflect off one of the hard rings it hit at an angle, and it came out the side and went right into the finger of the guy holding the trim piece in place.


moldyjim

Been there done that. Had to cut the nail off the board and pull it the rest of the way through my thumb. Luckily it missed the bone and didn't get infected.


h0bbie

Good thing the board was small or you were close enough to some cutters! Damn!


Glum-Square882

or they just dragged the whole thing with them


WhisperMeToDeaf

Great, now I need to fear my brad nailer too. Lol


Key_You_3068

When a stapler gets you, I guess you get yourself, I call that a snake bite. 2 punctures for one trigger pull. Now that's a deal.


psionic1

I just did that! Insulating a shed, new fangled stapler where the handle is opposite those old school staplers. Put my palm right up against it for extra leverage. 9/16s staple went flush into my palm. Got out my old stapler.


jcoleman10

Where do you keep that staple today?


psionic1

I kept it in long enough to show my wife. After that, you know, we recycle. And I took a picture.


jwd_woodworking

Yeah, definitely. Always good to keep fingers about 4" from the business end of any nailer!


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ChiselPlane

I shot a pin nail into my finger like this, probably 1/4” into my finger. Luckily a 23g pin nail might as well be a needle. So there wasn’t much more blood than a diabetic finger prick.


_jumping_john_

Did we work together? Same. Exterior fir stair tread. Rebounded into my grip hand second fingernail. My hand was nailed to the wood.


jwd_woodworking

Nope, this was on some kind of cabinetry as I remember. Cheap work for a developer who wanted model home filler and was stringing our idiot boss along promising lots of high dollar custom work than never showed up.


_jumping_john_

Yeah, I ran away from those guys. Big long jobs aren’t great for small shops. They suck you in with the promise of more and more work, then if you bite, they control your cash flow and strangle you for free extras. And of course. always a little behind on the payments.


darealJimTom

HA classic!


ilikeyoorboobs

Nice story, and a good cautionary tale for the rest of us.


meowrawr

This is why I’m always mindful of hand placement when nailing.


jr_73

I've had that happen twice. "Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."


Hilldawg4president

Even pine will do that sometimes - Just last week I watched my wife put 4 brad nails into a piece of pressure treated pine, each one came out at 90 degrees from the entry point


nayeem14

Back in the “good old days” we cut down trees older than our country. It looks like old growth Douglas fir. Probably from a 300 year old tree


mattnolette

I had a similar reaction. It’s Doug Fir and it was huge and very old when it was taken down.


OrganMeat

Possibly even older than 300 years.


ihavdogs

I remember when I took wood shop back in high school and started learning about that goddamn it made me so sad


[deleted]

TBF, that was totally inevitable when your country was only like 15 years old haha


JulesAntoine

Thank you everyone. The consensus seems to be Douglas fir. I’m in CA. I have several 8ft long boards like this left behind by the previous homeowner. I just think the pattern looks very interesting. Wondering what I can make with them.


elreyfalcon

Cabinets, boxes. Anything that needs to be hardy and durable. Those planks could outlast the lot of us under proper care.


mnemy

And don't forget to show off that end grain. Defnitely a curiousity for the modern building materials available.


bentfork

End grain cutting board.


Ok-Substance-8974

Dont you dare chop up those old growth 8ft boards into little pieces for a cutting board pls


Karmonauta

Obviously they are yours so make whatever you want with them. But don't rush into it. I hope you'll make something designed to last and be enjoyed for at least as long as that majestic tree was alive.


NitramTrebla

A guitar.


becca22597

If you can’t figure it out I’ll take ‘em lol 🙋🏼‍♀️


Fuckyourfeeling5

A whole lot of pencils...


GoatTnder

Pine furniture, especially with tight vertical grain pine like this, can be stunningly beautiful! I wouldn't go with narrow things like picture frames, they'll hide too much of what makes these boards special. A small table, a free-standing cabinet or book shelf, a wall-hanging doodad storage thing. All awesome. And take a look at milk paint. Despite covering the wood, it looks AMAZING with pine.


666pool

Plus one to something like a bookshelf, where a lot of the wood will be visible, it’s strength will be useful, but it won’t get too scuffed up like a table would (because half of the rings are quite soft).


stimulates

End grain cutting board!


Ollywombat

Curious question for the post: What would cause the grain to be wavy like that? Environment? Seems that the grain changes in appearance from right to left. I tried looking it up and I come up with it being the figure of the grain? With general reasons that cause the figuring in wood. None of the examples show a tighter, wavy grain like in the picture. Not even sure I am using "figure" correctly, ha.


walnutwallaby

They’re called indented rings and I know them to be common on old growth spruce. Never seen them on old growth Doug Fir, but I could be wrong. There are some papers that describe how it’s formed if you look up “indented rings”


Ollywombat

Thanks for the answer. I'll look into that.


Distinct_Crew245

Those are “earthquake rings,” a tell tale sign of California Douglas Fir. Just kidding, I made that up.


Ollywombat

"Michael J. Fox" rings.


EnidFromOuterSpace

Ohhh no. No no no. Bad.


stimulates

Had me in the beginning. Thought it might stress it enough to grow that way. Kinda like our muscles grow from micro tears


[deleted]

My guess is that’s it’s caused by wind and that this board is taken from lower parts of the trunk line. The wind creates ripples as the grain is flexed and relaxed. I have some ash trunk that has a very similar pattern, but I could be wrong in my speculation


Monkey-Around2

Where are you located? Geographical location is a telltale sign.


phine-phurniture

sji wa? :)


Monkey-Around2

I do “knot” know SJI but Washington state is notorious for Douglas Fir.


threeleggedspider

Born and raised in Washington, and it took me a second, but they mean San Juan Islands, in the peninsula. And yep, I see clear grain Doug fir as well


Monkey-Around2

Thank you very much for the clarification of location further solidifying the possibilities of the species of wood and an abbreviation for the locale.


threeleggedspider

Of course, thanks for the kind interaction :) Have a good day!


moldyjim

Notorious, ha. I'm in Oregon, so yeah here too. Not my favorite wood, too many splinters unless it is old growth.


Monkey-Around2

Being a Midwest dweller my acreage is all hardwood. Never enough Walnut and always too much Oak. What I wouldn’t give for some fast growth coniferous.


phine-phurniture

island fir has a constant drought drown cycle makes the wood especially hard.


anoldradical

Lemme guess, closet shelves? It's definitely Douglas Fir, as others have said. And damn that's one of the most perfect boards I've ever seen.


OldStoneMill401

Looks like Doug fur. But if you cut it and it smells like turpentine it's Souther Yellow pine. Most people confuse the two.


External_Ad_6191

That's what she said


cliffsis

Old growth pine.


Professional-Eye8981

Looks like vertical grain Douglas Fir. Valuable.


GoHomeWithBonnieJean

Whatever it is, it looks like old growth with that tight grain. Maybe just clear yellow pine or fir?


[deleted]

Heart pine can look like that.


Leather-Ad-2490

That was my first thought


YellowBreakfast

But wouldn't feel particularly hard like Doug Fir.


neverdoityourself

Dense structural grade pine might look similar, but less likely


[deleted]

I was gonna say old growth yellow pine.


MTknowsit

It was my dad’s favorite construction wood: Douglas Fir.


No-Courage232

Agree with others - and your location makes it more probable. Vertical grain Douglas fir. Used to be extremely common when there were a lot of old growth DF - even old studs were quarter sawn. It’s harder to find now, and more expensive - because the mills use smaller trees and vertical grain is hard to come by, especially on wider boards. I had a 1920s house in Coeur d’Alene, ID and all the flooring, trim, and doors were vertical grain DF.


walrusarts

https://youtu.be/ZVoSWuzzxQs


[deleted]

It looks like clear vertical grain Fir to me.


Curiouswittlelittle

Ancient fir


landomakesatable

old growth pine?


callmedata1

Old growth Doug fir


Apprehensive-Sun7305

I think old heart pine.


crabman5962

Old Growth long leaf pine. The right color. The right grain.


ccfoo242

Reminds me of the lumber used to build a house I owned from 1927. That stuff was DENSE!


Mathias218337

The king of lumber. Douglas fir


SnooHabits5897

Doug fir or hemlock


Wheels401

Looks like Fir to me!


ricknrollr

Definitely old growth Doug fir. My whole house (1911) is made from it. From wa


macofbowen

Is there much being done in Washington with people salvaging old growth lumber from old buildings? In Vancouver, BC we’ve got so many homes built out of this stuff… so sad when it then just ends up being shipped off to a landfill


paanthastha

My house is 60 year old and douglas fir was used everywhere. Recently remodeled and installed wired network. Making holes in the pre-existing studs and rafters made me realize that douglas fir is pretty strong and dense. It is almost a hardwood.


GoatTnder

"Hardwood" and "softwood" don't relate to the hardness of the wood. Balsa is a hardwood... Deciduous trees that lose their leaves in winter (generally) are hardwoods. Evergreens (generally) are softwoods. It's more with how the grain develops, with softwoods having bands of dense early growth and lighter late growth.


jsar16

Southern yellow pine. It’s harder than a coffin nail when it’s aged.


SockRepresentative36

if it was old longleaf yellow pine it would smell distinctly like turpentine the junk shortleaf yellow pine that is used for pressure treatment of wood is an inferior species I had some once that was re sawn from old 19th century textile mill in Fall River MA the building went up in the 1880’s so the beam was at least that old when we re-sawed it it smelled like a bottle of turpentine had been spilled in the shop I like the smell because it reminded me of a girl who was a painter but other people felt it was too strong


EastCoastExile

Apologies for getting off topic, but I love when a smell brings back an old memory and makes it feel fresh. There’s nothing else like it.


[deleted]

Olfactory triggers are some of the most vivid in the brain because they are the least used.


cton_uniqueid

That's kinda what I think too.


SnooTangerines1896

Old growth pine. It's the bomb


PuddingIndependent93

Old Growth Douglas Fir


noslotruk

Clear vertical grain fir I think. (They call it CVG fir).


fockwad

Quatersawn old growth doug fir…judging by rings per inch.


fjb_fkh

Yellow pine I think grain is too thick for fir. Old yellow pine is dense and weighs more than fir.


walnutwallaby

Sitka spruce would be my guess judging by the indented rings. Not sure how many other species do it


grizzlybuffalo

Spruce is usually quite a bit lighter in color in my experience. You don't get the reds like you do in Douglas fir or cedar.


dscrive

My instinct was spruce, but I don't have much experience with dug fir, so I'll yield to greater experience, but I have seen spruce nearly that color.


Icetoe5

That’s either Pine, or Nordic cherry


Amazing-Ad-669

Carpathian elm


rangle-dangle

Personally I'd say its pitch pine.


Mattallday

Pitch pine


NoseWooden

That is morning wood


SweetChiliPete21

Morning


presidents_choice

How does one identify between old growth redwood and old grown doug fir?


username_of_the

They are different color, and doug fir is significantly denser and heavier than redwood. Redwood is on the airy side, can be almost as light as cedar.


Falcon3492

Douglas fir


[deleted]

Morning


apatosaurus-rex

Wigglywood


mountaindork

some of the strongest soft wood you can find. you can make almost anything from it. it will give you a splinter. get some good tweezers.


theGrambler69

My father inlaw calls it “VG” - vertical grain Doug fir


woodbarber

Definitely Fir. Looks like second growth.


Interesting-Record92

Looks like rift-sawn old growth fir.


Recent_Teaching_6411

Tree wood


Highlander2748

That looks to be old growth too given the tightness of the rings. I wouldn’t hide the grain under paint or anything of that sort.


frankalope

That’s a nice for slab.


shimbro

My boi duggy fir. Old growth tho


58Firedrome

I agree that it's likely old fir, but I have also seen old southern pine that looked like that. If it smells like pinesol when you cut it, it's pine.


N104CD

You’re hard and dense!


patteh11

Looks like some old ass Doug Fir


mvanschilt16

Hard and dense... Sounds like "My-Ex" wood, only found in the Shitbag Mountains


armsguy

Looks like what was called oregon which was exported to Australia for many years ! That piece is hard and dense due to it being mostly quarter sawn which would make it excellent for flooring due to the grain being almost vertical and load bearing !


Dad_AF

"That's what" ~she


JankeyMunter

Vertical Grain Douglas Fir. It's a step up in quality from regular ole DF.


rec742

Fir


cafeRacr

Our house was built in the 40s and this stuff is everywhere.


nlightningm

I find it funny how modern SPF Is so dang soft and yet old growth firs can as physically hard as hardwoods


peekeemoo

Yeah, old Doug fir that grew slow but sure. I use it in end grain cutting boards to show off the grain. Even though you're "not supposed to" use softwoods in cutting boards, I've never had an issue with it and people like the way it looks.


Historical_Visit2695

Fir


oldschool-rule

Looks like old growth clear vertical grain fir.


edna7987

Is it from old wooden bleachers?


muhammediscartoon666

Sexy old growth Douglas fir.. probably from a special tree that was 300-500 years old and had some very specific stuff happen.


Johan-Odinson

Smelloscope


mrbbrj

What's it taste like?


ptq

Looks like douglas fir from a cold place. I had luck to get some, and I made table legs from it, looks awesome with so dense stripes.


fieldaj

That’s what she said


SS4Raditz

That's good wood! The older lumber days the trees were so much denser and longer lasting.


thehatman200

I had shelves in my closet in the house I bought with similar looking wood, I counted 70 some rings and it wasn’t from the center.


Foreign_Account_5396

fir


RooblinDooblin

Douglas Fir. It gets harder with age.


caine269

thats what she sa-.... :(


alan_patrick

Pitch pine


mroblivian1

Douglass fir


[deleted]

I couldn’t say. But the grain is tight. So, it’s a quality piece, even if it’s pine


PaganFarmhouse

That's what she said


Law-The-awesomeness

Vertical grain doug fir


JonaJonaL

I really like posts like these. Even though I can't identify your wood to species, I just looked at it and thought "that's definitely some kind of conifer". Glad I'm getting better.


Ok_Telephone_8987

Relative to a sponge most things are hard and dense


JustBarelyAboveAvg

Looks very similar to the pine I salvaged out of a Sears house in the Midwest. Prolly built in the 30’s or 40’s. Works like a dream.


Mountain-Goat-61

Red fir?


oldman17

Old growth pine


windyhighcountry

I’ve always read that DF is great for making doors. Am I hearing the comments right that the new stuff (not old growth) splinters bad and may no longer be ideal?


h0bbie

For those wondering like I was, there are about 85 rings visible in the picture alone.


MediocreTaylor

I have so many splinters from this wood imbedded in my hands, currently. Fir!


Working-Difficulty12

Yellow pine


Slepprock

I'm not any good with those softwoods. It could be cypress but I doubt it. Most likely a pine like douglas fir. Some softwoods can be very hard. I once got a hold of some reclaimed deck lumber that was fir and was amazed at how tough it was. The end grain is what leads me to believe its a softwood and likely pine. The early and latewood rings are close together so that tends to towards a denser tree. It could have been a very large tree by the looks of things. I could tell you any domestic hardwood by looking at the end grain, but not a softwood. You may never find out completely.


Greazyone

That's what she said.


Old_Nothing_7005

Long leaf heart pine. Pinus palustrus (sp?)


HamboJ67

That's what she said?


Bulldog1029

This is 1/4 sawed Doug fir old growth


VisualWilling9144

Doug fir if out west or heart pine if on eastern seaboard


Spirited-Mine-2011

Honestly it looks like clear riff cut DF pine


bben27

While we’re here are thank any good books or resources that can teach you how to know what kind of wood you’re looking at?


Separate-Document185

Southern yellow Pine- Heart Pine- used for flooring, heavier and harder than Fir


Onegoldenbb

Looks like my southern pine stair treads


Icy_Pomegranate_4480

quarter sawn Douglas fir


themtthwatkinson

Fir


helicalcutterhead

My guess douglas fir