White Pine Timber Frame

The sapwood is a pale yellow to nearly white.

White pine timber frame.

White pine wood has medium strength is easily worked and stains and finishes well. Rogers artist designer and craftsman ted lott creates beautiful miniature timber frame structures with eastern white pine using found vintage furniture and other objects as. Eastern white pine is a particularly good wood for timber framing as it is easy to work with being a softwood but it is well behaved when properly treated and is quite strong for its weight. Because it is less expensive than douglas fir it is often used for residential timber frames.

Pine is a very stable wood. Eastern white pine pinus strobus the moderate timber. It doesn t deflect or twist excessively like oak and for most applications it can easily span as much as 20 feet. Creamy white or pale straw to light reddish brown.

Eastern white pine sculptures by ted lott by s a. It has a good straight grain can be easily stained planes well and is a great wood for hand hewing. Timber frame in miniature. When planning a timber frame home or other building consumers are often asked to choose from a variety of wood species.

Challenging to obtain graded for structural timber framing. A softwood which grows from maine to northern georgia and in the great lake states. These colors tend to darken with age. The estimated price of your timber is 0 price shown for rough cut non kiln dried material.

Pine is not as strong. Eastern white pine is one of the most popular choices found in heavy timber frame construction all over the united states and beyond.