Weird Wood

[Rockytime]

I'm confused about a lot of things but this time it is about plain old pine boards.I cut lot's of pine as I don't sell my cuttings so I don't use many hard woods aside from Poplar and Oak. I brought home some 1" boards from HD. The one by four is smooth on one side only. The other side is extremely rough. It is also thicker than a regular 1" board. I'm thinking it just happened to miss the planer on one side.

[JustLarry]

Looks like that one was on the planner at lunch break or time to go home and was not finished.

Larry

[Scrappile]

looks like cedar to me and maybe a fence board.

[Rockytime]

1 minute ago, Scrappile said:

looks like cedar to me and maybe a fence board.

It is nice looking pine on one side so I know it is pine. I never checked other 1x4s when I bought it. That may have been the only one and I was just lucky. I have cedar fence boards to make frames.

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

Could be Poplar. Yes it got past quality control 1" in the rough is about 1-1/8" thick. S4S or S2S dressed lumber or dimensional lumber is 3/4"  

[NC Scroller]

Based on you pictures it looks like western red cedar.  I think it is also called Giant Cedar or Pacific Cedar.  Western red cedar can vary in color from almost white to almost as dark as walnut.   In fact I took a beginners intarsia class from Judy Gale Roberts and that was all we used.  Look at the colors on this.  Except for the eye ball it is all western red cedar. 

[Brokentone]

That particular board is used for outside trim on rough sawn siding.

Bob

[Bill WIlson]

10 minutes ago, Brokentone said:

That particular board is used for outside trim on rough sawn siding.

Bob

Yes, likely someone picked it up in one place and put it back in the wrong one.

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

The smell should tell you what it is when cutting. 

[Rockytime]

5 hours ago, NC Scroller said:

Based on you pictures it looks like western red cedar.  I think it is also called Giant Cedar or Pacific Cedar.  Western red cedar can vary in color from almost white to almost as dark as walnut.   In fact I took a beginners intarsia class from Judy Gale Roberts and that was all we used.  Look at the colors on this.  Except for the eye ball it is all western red cedar. 

Very nice intarsia!

[Rockytime]

3 hours ago, JTTHECLOCKMAN said:

The smell should tell you what it is when cutting. 

Smells like pine so it is pine. 

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

34 minutes ago, Rockytime said:

Smells like pine so it is pine. 

There you go. Just a mishap in production. 

[Roberta Moreton]

On 8/9/2019 at 8:37 AM, NC Scroller said:

Based on you pictures it looks like western red cedar.  I think it is also called Giant Cedar or Pacific Cedar.  Western red cedar can vary in color from almost white to almost as dark as walnut.   In fact I took a beginners intarsia class from Judy Gale Roberts and that was all we used.  Look at the colors on this.  Except for the eye ball it is all western red cedar. 

Scott nailed it, western red cedar.