I took a few photos of some wood I’ve been working on lately. It’s a door jamb that lives in a house built in 1815 and the tree was easily 50 years old when cut. It’s 14" wide and nearly clear.
If anyone can use these, feel free.
Shep
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Very nice. Thank you.
It’s fun to find wide old boards, isn’t it? There’s an old general store not too far from here that has some amazing pine boards for paneling and the ceiling up on the second floor. I’ve always thought that I’d love to get my hands on some of it if they ever tear it down.
Here I’ve made textures from your images.
Old pine boards.skp (4.8 MB)
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This thing is going back where it came from. It needed some serious help. It was in a basement with a dirt floor. There was a fair amount of insect damage and rot on the back sides and one was badly cracked.
The hide glue was not used on the crack. I’m a large consumer of Abatron Woodepox
Probably poured about a quart on the back of the two jambs.
Wow!
Would love to see some photos when you are finished with it.
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Thanks Shep and Dave!
Doin’ up my friend’s tree house door for 'em. Had to reduce the textures though. Didn’t want him going wild with the big versions.
Oops I see I have a couple seams in there. Easy to fix. These textures came out great. Can’t wait to play with rendering them.
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What happens when your Thirty year old hedge trimmers need a part? You have it printed of course.
I’m amazed how well this bell end fit. maybe better than the original. I did decide to to the countersink myself.
Little Wonder
Shep
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Next up, a double hung window reproduction. It’s not terribly old, but good salvage units are proving hard to find.
In other news, we are about to begin setting the old jamb pictured above.
Shep
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I’ve been working on a small porch or awning for a client and this was a contender. The 19th century version probably wouldn’t make it through permitting.
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In older buildings you often encounter structures that when looked through modern eyes ought to collapse. The porch probably holds together because of its small size. It might have some invisible iron reinforcements in the corner joints to prevent the roof forcing the columns apart. I remember a timber floor from the mid-1800s where one set of slender beams wouldn’t have supported the long span so they put in another set on top perpendicular to the first one. In theory the second only adds weight but in practice the result was quite sturdy.
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Another point that can’t be overlooked is the quality of the lumber used. A mid 1800s structure might have used oak or other hardwoods or at least old growth yellow pine. The “old timers” wouldn’t have used today’s spruce, pine, fir for firewood.
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Before the 1900s transport was so costly that the most common denominator of timber was that it came from near. Here in Finland most buildings were made from logs and in those walls you can find both slow and fast grown pine or spruce. For things like window frames they preferred slow-grown, dense pine. The oak woods of southernmost Finland were used for shipbuilding and turned into fields quite early so you find very little of that in buildings. Well kept pine and spruce are quite durable, some of our churches have roof trusses that are about 600 years old.
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