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[trailblazer]

Charred yellow pine looks amazing with a good clear coat

[tummytub]

A little fun fact about poplar: when poplar dries it hardens and can become so tough you can't hammer in a nail. I have a poplar coffee table and bench outside and it has been outside for 8 years and is rock hard.

[pdxRetired]

Years ago I scored a large shipping pallet for a factory machine at work that had come from the southern us. Southern Hard Yellow Pine 4x4 and 2x6 and when I finished taking it apart I had a bucket of 8 inch lag bolts. I build the floor structure of my storage shed from those timbers.

[jeremyfarley]

Hell yeah! I've been making stuff out of it for years. Nice, straight, grain, cheap and available. I've had trouble getting it to take stain sometimes cause it tends to be kinda waxy. I agonized over making my first woodworking bench cause I wanted some fancy hardwood like all the people I'd been watching in videos. Didn't have the money and southern yellow had always stood out building houses cause the stuff is way heavier and harder than other construction grade lumber. Now my bench is too heavy to move around. I like to buy wide boards, rip out the middle and use those nice, straight parallel lines in my designs.

[c.blakerockhart]

I learned how to use a hand plane on yellow pine. When it came time to trim out our bathroom I searched for spalted yellow pine. It looks amazing with a honey colored urethane high gloss finish. Crown, base, window, and door are ALL spalted yellow pine. Our house is 124 years old and the doors are original and they are PINE. We removed over 12 POUNDS of paint from the bathroom door and it is BEAUTIFUL PINE.

[WoodByWright]

We get a lot of Douglas fir around here at the big box stores.

[loushackelford]

Living in south Georgia pines are abundant, from box stores and pines i cut and mill myself. I make all my furniture with Southern yellow pine. Let it set in a dry climate controlled area it takes on a reddish patina.

[AgitpropPsyop]

“It’s not the most attractive”
Gonna be honest, the more contrast, burls and coloration the better in my eyes

[Mhj]

I buy syp 2x12's they have been at the big box store longer than the 2x4's so are drier. They have fewer knots and you can cut off the outside edges and if you choose them tight often get almost qtr sawn boards off the outside edges.

[stopitnowlol]

Fun fact, the softest wood is a hardwood, balsa (although some places say eastern white pine which is a soft wood)

[AmericansWillRise]

Damn it, Rex!!! Now SYP is gonna triple in cost!! 😂

[miketypeeach]

Can't help myself.. I love the grain and imperfections of pine--whatever the variety. Will consider it for a living room chair I'd like to build.. and maybe even some counter chairs, too.

[cjones]

Yellow pine are the trees that grow straight up and down and most branches at the top they you’ll see growing everywhere in the south. They also are what coat everything down there in a yellow dust.

[JacobLeemovingfwd]

Growing up in Texas, but now in the PNW. One of the few things I miss.

[jameshuggins]

Down here in Arkansas i love SYP . Hell Loblolly pine is our state tree which is a subspecies of SYP. 😁👍

[darodes]

My workbench is SYP and I used the extra to make stools for my kids 😊

[henrikstenlund]

We have Northern pine which is very dense and grows very slowly. The best weather-safe objects are made of it.

[igorlopesribeiro]

"If only every unnatractive thing was so easy to fix" preach bro, preach💀

[scottsterner]

We have a ton of Doug fir up here in montana, but if you go out in the forest you can find some good dead standing larch trees, larch is definitely my favorite conifer to work with

[halsonger]

I made my Roubo out of SYP. Went to the big box store and bought 2x12s, then ripped about 5 inches off each side since the center of those boards is always pith. Wound up with quarter-sawn Southern yellow pine.