Materials for Design

Pine (Pinus sylvestris)

The name pine suggests scented temperate forest, but it’s impossible to describe pine as a specific wood, because it’s actually a family of woods, which includes trees with evocative names such as sugar pine and Table Mountain pine, as well as the perhaps more well known Scots pine, spruce pine and yellow pine. Its timber ranges from a gummy, resinous wood to a warm toasted blonde pine, with a white sapwood and a heartwood varying from light yellow-brown to reddish brown, often with a faint scent of resin.

Pines are one of the most widely recognized and used timbers, chosen mainly for their good range of structural properties, including strength, stiffness, good workability, excellent stability and low shrinkage. Due to ...