Tim- Nice work!
Reminds me of one of my favorite coffee table books, "The Wood-butcher's Guide to Art"! -Don Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:24:21 -0400 Subject: [ENTS] White pine is a great wood for building a timber frame From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Russ: When I was building the timber frame 15 years ago, I played around with many different kinds of wood. Early framers used beech, spruce, chestnut, white pine, red spruce, hemlock, aspen, ironwood, ash, oak, yellow birch and sugar maple. The English colonists used white oak because it was very rot resistant and abundant. I mostly used white pine because it is very stable and has one of the lowest shrinkage rates of northern trees. I felt like I needed a walking stick after working many long hours on most of my vacations. Tim _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft's powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
