I turned this a long time ago. A friend gave me a piece of wood he retrieved from an old train depot that was being torn down. It was over 100 years old. It looked like it had some interesting grain patterns. I cut it up to glue it and was very surprised, it still had sap in it. I doubted it was that old, but was told than the yellow pine does that??????

Anyway I think I used gorilla glue to glue it because it will set in something like that. It did come kinda nice. Still wonder about it.

Hello Ron, that is what we would call Heart Pine here.  And yes, it stays like that.  Makes it pretty resistant to everything but termites.  Find it a lot in older houses and buildings.

Cal

It sure had me confused, never seen any thing like that

13 minutes ago, Ron Altier said:

I cut it up to glue it and was very surprised, it still had sap in it. I doubted it was that old, but was told than the yellow pine does that??????

Beautiful vase, Ron!

We call it yellow pine here, too. I got a piece of timber from a building put up in 1817. The whole shop smelled like Christmas when I cut into it.

The picture was taken after I finished. I am going to look for it and see what it looks like today. I'll post a picture

very nice...

it's all character even though it took a 100 years to turn....

Nice Ron.  My last house was built with Heart Pine which is also very hard.  Had to predrill holes to screw drywall to the studs so the screws wouldn't break.  The trim had to be drilled to start a nail also.

Dan, my  house in OH was made of Oak, very hard old rough sawn Oak. 2x6 actually measured more like 3x8 and so on. When I put a rec room in.................I had to  predrill for every nail. My father-in-law was a carpenter all his life and knew how to hammer in a nail. He was the only person I ever saw that could get one in without bending it and he couldn't do it each time, he bent a few too.

Nice turning, Ron. 

On 11/17/2016 at 9:28 PM, Ron Altier said:

it still had sap in it.

 

Nice turning~!!  

I have some  century old pine that I got as the table to an old Walker Turner  lathe.  It is hard hard hard and  yup still has sap.

 

Some people down in Ga call it fat lighter.

3 minutes ago, Kevin Beitz said:

Some people down in Ga call it fat lighter.

 

We do??

 

This is what I was thinking was a fat lighter.

 

Yep the inside of an old yeller pine stump makes good fires and turns 

good lookin bowls.... I would look for it in the woods and fields in

Jesup Ga.

Used to keep splinters of the stuff for emergency fire starter. Also this is what was use to make turpentine. They would dig it up and boil it to get the turpentine. Do  not think I want to turn it as it usually has pockets of sap also.