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(07-05-2020, 07:15 PM)toolmiser Wrote: Just don't try "pee elm".
Or fresh cut red oak!
My father was a carpenter and one of my favorite memories was walking into a freshly framed house. Wood? Probably pine or maybe western cedar.
I had a good day. I used every tool I own!
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Sometimes I will plane a scrap of redwood just for the smell.
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Western white sugar pine.
there's a reason that species of pine comes with the 'sugar' descriptor.
Spanish cedar is nice also.
As has been mentioned, the rosewood group. Tulip wood is called that for a good reason.
Maybe on the bottom of the list is some type of oak, probably one of the whites, that gets used around here from time to time. Every local woodworker knows what you're talking about when you say 'outhouse oak'.
Hickory plus a dull saw blade isn't much better.
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100 year old fir.
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that way when the real misery starts you won't notice.
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(07-05-2020, 10:01 AM)jppierson Wrote: Don't let her get a whiff of rosewood!
ive cut some on my scrollsaw. i wanted to sprinkle the dust on my food-figgered it smelled so good it had to taste good,too.
koa is another ive cut on the scrollsaw and like the smell of.
padauk,too.
puprpleheart has a nice aroma,too-when its not burning through ss blades
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My favorite, teak, at over $30/bf, has the rich smell of money.
Wood is good.
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Love the smell of old wood in old houses built of firs, pines and some spruces or cedars. You whether like the smell or hate it.
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I unpacked a dozen or so boxes of red oak flooring yesterday. Gawd that stuff stinks.
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(07-11-2020, 07:52 PM)KC Wrote: I unpacked a dozen or so boxes of red oak flooring yesterday. Gawd that stuff stinks.
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