Wood and Art

[Asssiss]

Hello folks...yesterday I was looking for about Pinho de Riga (Pinus sylvestris).
This wood is rare and expensive in Brazil.
This wood came to Brazil when our country was a Portuguese cologne.
They use the wood as weight at caravel...left here and carry back all kind of Brazilian treasure.

The reason of this post are the pictues below.
The way how some people can transform some pieces of wood in a beautiful art is so cool.

Translation:
Pássaros = birds
Galho= branch

The name of woods at link are very common in Brazil:

Freijó
Roxinho
Peroba Rosa
Imbuia

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The Pinho de Riga

Demolition homes...barnes...etc

You can find some doors from home demolition

 

[Cloud of Sawdust Farms]

This is probably what many of us had as Christmas trees in childhood -- I know I did when I was a child. Pinus sylvestris is "Scotch pine." It's widespread in Europe and widely introduced in North America, and no one here would think of it as rare. Rarity and desirability are so often a simple matter of perspective. Thank you for sharing this with us!

 

[Asssiss]

This is probably what many of us had as Christmas trees in childhood -- I know I did when I was a child. Pinus sylvestris is "Scotch pine." It's widespread in Europe and widely introduced in North America, and no one here would think of it as rare. Rarity and desirability are so often a simple matter of perspective. Thank you for sharing this with us!

I don't know if it is the same wood ( the scientific name is the same).But I am saying the wood is rare and expensive here in Brazil...I have small pieces and If I cut or sand or plane it the smell is so nice and the chips are oily.
Riga is a main city in Latvia and the wood avaible in Brazil is from there...this information is what we can read when research about "Pinho de Riga" (Riga's Pine in direct translation).
Thanks for comment

 

[DLJeffs]

The grain in the passaro certainly looks like pine or fir. And Emerson says "riga" translates as pine. But it would seem weird to me they'd use pine lumber as ballast in their ships. But maybe it was cheap, floated if anything bad happened during the voyage, and they'd just leave it in Brazil for construction material as they replaced it with Brazilian materials.

 

[daniscool]

The grain in the passaro certainly looks like pine or fir. And Emerson says "riga" translates as pine. But it would seem weird to me they'd use pine lumber as ballast in their ships. But maybe it was cheap, floated if anything bad happened during the voyage, and they'd just leave it in Brazil for construction material as they replaced it with Brazilian materials.

It is also much easier to work than most Brazilian species which is likely why it was popular with early settlers as construction lumber. They didn’t have power tools then and wanted something they knew.

 

[Asssiss]

The grain in the passaro certainly looks like pine or fir. And Emerson says "riga" translates as pine. But it would seem weird to me they'd use pine lumber as ballast in their ships. But maybe it was cheap, floated if anything bad happened during the voyage, and they'd just leave it in Brazil for construction material as they replaced it with Brazilian materials.

At rockets and birds the wood is Pinho de Riga.
The history about how the wood reach our country was older than me 8 times.
The density of wood is around 500kg/m³ to 650 kg/m³.
Tomorrow I"ll show my pieces.They are small and has some patina...I"ll plane a piece to show you.

 

[Gdurfey]

Love the rocket turnings; reminds me of 50s era toys.