Oregon Pine
Durability: Durable
Colour: Medium
Sizes available: 50, 100 mm
Trade Name: | Oregon |
Botanical Species: | Pseudotsuga menziesi |
Other Names: | Douglas Fir. |
Country of Origin: | North America also Plantations in New Zealand |
Air Dry Density: | 550kgs/m³ |
Durability: | Durable |
Strength: | 7 (on a scale from 1 – 10) |
Seasoning: | ||
• | Relatively easy to dry but the tangential surface is prone to surface checking. | |
• | End splitting is likely if drying is too rapid. | |
Characteristics: | ||
• | Heartwood is a pale pinkish brown and the sapwood is almost white. | |
• | The wood is typically straight grained with a fine even texture but varying in density according to the locality of growth. | |
Working Qualities: | ||
• | Care is needed in dressing because the softer early wood may be compressed and later, on recovery, produce a ridged surface. This characteristic makes it unsuitable for steam bending. | |
• | Inclined to split when nailed near ends of piece. Resin content can be high, causing occasional bleed-through of paint films. | |
Uses: | ||
• | General timber for internal framing, interior joinery, boat building, sarking. | |
Product Attributes: | ||
• | Consistent colour. | |
• | Machines and turns well. | |
• | Quarter sawn boards available. | |
• | Good lengths available. | |
• | Very stable in use. | |
• | Veneers available. | |
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