Distribution & Availability
Its natural home is narrow belt of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, from Alaska, through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. Readily available.
Durability
slightly durable. Difficult to treat with prespective.
Working Properties
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Main Uses
High quality pianos, stringed instrumentss, joinery and boats. It is also used for light framing in structural applications, ladder rails, scaffolding and other uses where its high strength-to-weight ratio is important.
Physical & Mechanical Properties
Weighs 349 kg per cubic metre. A clear, straight-grained wood, classed moderate in many of its properties, including weight and hardness. It has the highest strength-to-weight ratio of any species.
Other information
This species combination, classed as moderately strong, is cross-continental in origin. Because of similar design values, the combination includes Engelmann and Sitka spruces and Ldgepole pine from the West, along with Balsam fir, Jack pine, Red pine and several species of spruce from the US Northeast. Spruce-Pine-Fir (south) design values make it appropriate for general framing applications. In the higher, structural light framing grades, dimension products are appropriate for light trusses and other engineered applications.
