I have not seen blue yet. I bet it's interesting. I have thought in passing of building a boat of light wood and staining it blue before the epoxy step, but don't really have the nerve for that.
The major types of cedar I know of are Western Red Cedar, Eastern(?) White Cedar and Alaskan(?) Yellow Cedar. I wouldn't expect fine grain to come from a tree in Tennessee, because our hot weather and wet climate usually means a long growing season, so that trees put on more girth in a year, leaving more room between rings. But I don't know all that much about wood, being fairly new at woodworking, so maybe I'm wrong.
Within a type, woodworkers seem to prize fine-grained wood over coarse grained.
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Date: 2010-01-28 12:29 pm (UTC)I have not seen blue yet. I bet it's interesting. I have thought in passing of building a boat of light wood and staining it blue before the epoxy step, but don't really have the nerve for that.
The major types of cedar I know of are Western Red Cedar, Eastern(?) White Cedar and Alaskan(?) Yellow Cedar. I wouldn't expect fine grain to come from a tree in Tennessee, because our hot weather and wet climate usually means a long growing season, so that trees put on more girth in a year, leaving more room between rings. But I don't know all that much about wood, being fairly new at woodworking, so maybe I'm wrong.
Within a type, woodworkers seem to prize fine-grained wood over coarse grained.