…Pipedream also has a story. I live in and am renovating a house from the 1800s. The wood that it was built from is probably first cut, old growth pine. It is also known as heart pine because of the cut pattern used to mill the log into boards.
When I removed parts of the original walls and floors, I carefully kept the beams for later use. In this case, I milled these down again to a frame width, planed them to a uniform width, then used the stock to build the frame by hand.
The rough texture along the front is the original rough hewn cut pattern from the mill which turned the tree into many boards over a century and half ago. This leaves the side of the frame highlighted with the tight growth rings seen in heart pine.
