White Pine Timber Frame

Eastern white pine pinus strobus the moderate timber.

White pine timber frame.

Because it is less expensive than douglas fir it is often used for residential timber frames. When planning a timber frame home or other building consumers are often asked to choose from a variety of wood species. 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. These colors tend to darken with age.

Eastern white pine sculptures by ted lott by s a. Moderately soft moderately low in strength moderately durable and moderate shrinkage. The estimated price of your timber is 0 price shown for rough cut non kiln dried material. Creamy white or pale straw to light reddish brown.

Pine is not as strong. It has a good straight grain can be easily stained planes well and is a great wood for hand hewing. 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. It is similar in color to hemlock a pale yellow with occasional reddish streaks.

Timber frame in miniature. It doesn t deflect or twist excessively like oak and for most applications it can easily span as much as 20 feet. Eastern white pine is one of the most popular choices found in heavy timber frame construction all over the united states and beyond. Pine is a very stable wood.

Challenging to obtain graded for structural timber framing. A softwood which grows from maine to northern georgia and in the great lake states.