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    Default What kind of pine?

    Hi there, just wondering if anyone would know what type of pine this is, thank you.


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    Do you have a bit more detail? What does it smell like? Do you have any of the needles/leaves? Seeds/cones?

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    I don't have any leaves or needles, I just received the it as firewood cut yesterday, have very strong pine smell nearly like Vicks. The bark is very hard to take off not like other pine, maybe because of it size.


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    Could be Cyprus pine but ordinary Radiata pine can have a strong smell when freshly cut. What they have given you is too green to use as firewood and it doesn't have a very high calorific value and will leave a lot of course ash and a large deposit of soot and creosote inside your flue, I am assuming you are using it in a slow combustion fire. Use only well seasoned hardwood.
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    I won't be using it for firewood, turning them in to bowl blanks.


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    Vary coarse grain there Adem. Will change shape easily after being worked. Still too green.
    I would suggest it is radiata pine.

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    Hey Jack, does that mean it's not good for turning, I've cut most of them in to blanks and painted with endcheck sealer.


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    I have used seasoned pine for turning, but not one single piece. Usually I glue several pieces together, and that helps prevent warping.
    There are better timbers to turn than pine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wimmera Jack View Post
    I have used seasoned pine for turning, but not one single piece. Usually I glue several pieces together, and that helps prevent warping.
    There are better timbers to turn than pine.

    Hooroo.
    I'd also lean toward Radiata or some other import/exotic.

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    Radiata.

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    Been carving conifer woods for a long time. I use a ruler to measure ring count per inch.
    Good carving wood is 15 - 40 rings per inch. 12 or less is firewood.

    There's a great deal of early wood in each ring with a very abrupt finish in a narrow layer of really hard late wood.
    I predict this difference in density will be a puzzle to cut smoothly.

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    Might also be macrocarpa - Cupressus macrocarpa - which is even softer than radiata. Colour and wide spacing of growth rings plus bark are relevant.

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