TinhteDIY: Experience in choosing and buying pine wood.
Currently, DIYers have many choices of materials such as old and new wood of all kinds, MDF, plywood, chipboard, modified wood, etc. Personally, I still have a love for pine wood, including pallet pine. Perhaps because of the pleasant aroma, attractive embossed grain, soft and light pine wood, easy to work with, moderate price, very suitable for beginners. And choosing to buy good wooden bars is not too difficult, I would like to share a few personal experiences below.
Buy exactly what you need.
It is necessary to have sketches and take apart each part to get the quantity. Buy moderately, maybe have a little extra just in case, avoid buying too much which is wasteful and cramps the playing space.
Details to note:
- The wood is cracked.
Such cracked wood is often due to transportation, dismantling or natural shrinkage and drying. If you can handle the small part or subtract the wide part and still have the required size, it can still be used.
These knots are essentially tree branches. On a board with too many wood knots, it will reduce the stability of the board. The position of the wood knots is also a weak point with poor bearing capacity. Wood knots also often accumulate a lot of resin, making the process a bit difficult, especially sanding.
However, if you know how to take advantage of these eye points, you can also create unique details. - Wood is crushed, crushed, or loses its hardness due to heavy weight or strong impact.
It can be seen by signs of cracked boards and greatly deformed sharp edges. - Wood is too light and porous.
Due to the characteristics of the growing area or when the tree is cut when it is too young, the wood does not withstand force well and has poor adhesion to screws. - Wood is warped.
Sharpening straight edges also reduces size significantly. A wooden bar can bend in many directions, so check the edges carefully.
Look at the wood grain.
You can see the difference in the amount of wood grain. Light-colored wood grain is soft wood grain, symbolizing the period of warm weather and rapid tree growth. On the contrary, dark wood grain is very strong, forming slowly through the harsh cold season. A tree trunk will be cut into many boards and there are differences in each location. I feel that wooden panels with semi-circular grain patterns will be more stable than other positions.
The above differences give me more information to choose from. And it is not necessary to have the best wooden bar to produce the best item, the most important thing is still the compatibility with the function of the item you make. And that is my experience in choosing to buy pine wood. I hope to receive everyone's comments on this topic to make the information more complete. Thank you everyone for watching!