We recently repaired a dam on an old resort that had a lodge built in the 1890 on the inside wall was pine with a bazzillion small knots the old caretaker said it was birdseye pine. Is there such a tree or does it grow like that. Thanks for any input I have a few good freinds that have logged since they were in diapers so i dont want to give them the satisfaction of asking a stupid ?
Where are you located?
Not knowing if the handle catskills pond is the clue.
Catskill mountains New York southern tier I was out in washington state and there was what I think they called lodge pole pine lot of branches maybe this is the source :-\
i've seen birdseye in more than one 2x4. i believe these are typically stamped spf, which is spruce, pine, fir? anyways, i thought it was remarkable in that i'd only ever heard of birdseye maple. so yes, i believe it can occur in other species as well as maple...
I've seen birdseye in several species, including oak and poplar.
White pine has limbs in whorls. Limbs become knots when you saw a log into lumber. If these whorls occur close together because of slow growth, there is a dramatic effect. Here, it was always called 'knotty pine paneling".
This knotty pine paneling is different from "birds eye" like in maple because the knots cause the effect. True birds eye is a distortion or bump in the cambium and not from a knot.
"not from a knot". Hmmmm, no wonder English is such a hard language to learn :).
Those are dimples that are common figure in lodgepole pine. It's not birdseye, but it is considered figured and similar. Dimples are also found in jack pine on occasion.
Birdseye is also in yellow birch and white ash.
One guy was splitting firewood and he brought some of it in to the marketing board, it was yellow birch birdseye. Had the bark still on it.
I've seen solitary eyes in white ash, actually reminds me of a tiger's eye gemstone.
Do a Google for "lodgepole pine dimple" and it should lead you to some photos and info.
Quote from: mikeb1079 on June 23, 2011, 10:11:02 PM
i've seen birdseye in more than one 2x4. i believe these are typically stamped spf, which is spruce, pine, fir? anyways, i thought it was remarkable in that i'd only ever heard of birdseye maple. so yes, i believe it can occur in other species as well as maple...
That designation includes jack pine, a species also common with dimple figure.
WDH "not from a knot" has naught to do with the intrcacies of English :D
Ponderosa pine has birdseye lumber on very rare occasions. There are several houses in town with cabinets made of birseye pine selected from the big historic (closed) sawmill. Usually one of the mill workers will set "pattern pine" material like this aside for a friend. The lumber market never sees this wood. The public does not see birds eye pine until it is installed in the friends house. In pine there is no commercial demand for pattern wood. The mill worker or friend gets rare/unique/exclusive furniture and cabinetry for a common price.
A lot of that depends on if someone wants to market it and how easy is it to come by to actually meet any kind of demand. I think these angles have been explored by many people. You take birdseye maple, I can go buy some right today locally. Can someone in Georgia? Probably not. It would be shipped in from Canada or the northern tier states and probably cost a lot more. I know several places in the woods I can lay my hand on the trunk of a birdseye figured maple. Not sapsucker peck.
Thanks all for the reply so there is not a tree called bidseye but how it grows
Correct. Birdseye is simply a characteristic. An adjective if you will.
I have seen birdseye pine quite often in the home center piles. Mostly in the 2x stock, but somethimes in the 1x rack. Maybe I should start pulling it and do something nice with it.
The local wood store used to have it in their regular 1x pine rack, but they started seperating it when folks started picking and choosing it out special.
It's funny, I never see jack pine as in SFP framing material here. But they do saw it here. Doesn't grow in the hardwood belt here, mostly a boreal tree on glacial sand. Any outside of that were planted. Irving has planted millions of them down around Sussex and up in the northern regions. They don't plant them tight enough though, they grow too limby and crooked if you space them like a spruce. The best ones I ever see are ones grown back from fires. Some they planted as small plots in Deersdale, it looks like crap.
I have only seen it once and build our two Daughters a table from it. Not good pictures, but the tables were unusual.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/20011/2410/Image0159.jpg)
Tapered leg table.
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Kinda like birds eyes throughout the boards.
Well we finished up yesterday and I went pokin around the place and in the kitchen where there was a large pantry there was the same wood but not finished on one of the boards was faded print that said In Sweeden my guess now is maybe they were packing crates that came over on the boat :-\
Could have been Scots pine. In the photos of dimple I have seen, they are numerous and conical in appearance.
Nice coffee table Magic. :)
Quote from: Sprucegum on June 24, 2011, 09:54:49 AM
WDH "not from a knot" has naught to do with the intrcacies of English :D
We ought naught to talk like this :D.
Don't know what kind of eye this but it ain't bird. Looks more Asian and just about the cutest little knot I've ever seen.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12224/Knot1.jpg)
It is in some Sugar Pine that I was making a night stand with.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/12224/Knot2.jpg)
after hurricane rita i sawed a hickory that had been blown down, some roots still in ground. tree was laying flat on the ground with small limbs growing upwards on the log, when i sawed it up it had the prettiest birdseye pattern i have ever seenin any log, first hickory.
Quote from: Sprucegum on June 24, 2011, 09:54:49 AM
WDH "not from a knot" has naught to do with the intrcacies of English :D
How many knots can you tie in a rope that is moving naught 1 knot? ??? SD- Is the birdseye encountered in the other hardwood species caused by the same thing it is in maple? I ask for I know not ;)
I would assume so murdock, but I'm no expert on how it's inoculated or what causes it. But, the yellow birch birdseye looks like the maple birdseye.
Mad,
It is not for me to say if you know not or not :) :).