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

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[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.

 

[Asssiss]

Part of my wood...I have four pieces like these.
Pinho de Riga.
Tomorrow if I have time I"ll plane it to show fresh wood.

 

[daniscool]

Part of my wood...I have four pieces like these.
Pinho de Riga.
Tomorrow if I have time I"ll plane it to show fresh wood.

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That patina is amazing.

 

[2feathers Creative Making]

Part of my wood...I have four pieces like these.
Pinho de Riga.
Tomorrow if I have time I"ll plane it to show fresh wood.

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We have similar pine here in the southern USA. It is also from years ago. It is sold as heart pine. Usually a yellow pine. Ours is not repeatable even with the same tree. The old trees were slower growing and what you are showing is tight grained with a lot of resin. The color is almost a match to it

 

[Mr. Peet]

Part of my wood...I have four pieces like these.
Pinho de Riga.
Tomorrow if I have time I"ll plane it to show fresh wood.

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These do not match Scott's pine but match a few of the southern yellow pine tree species.

 

[Asssiss]

It was not patina...was varnish or similar.I scraped this morning.
My father did this T rule to me when I was at my medium professional school in 1984.I used three years at mechanical drawer classes.
Still brand new...he used Pinho de Riga and Jacarandá...that part where all rules like this use acrylic he used Formica because acrylic is not avaible. Why he did it?...because at that time was expensive and he saved the money.

Pinho de Riga

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My T rule Pinho de Riga and Formica

90 cm long



Jacarandá



Comercial models

Varnish on left

Scraped

I love this wood

 

[Mike Hill]

Ahh, T Squares - that's what we call them here. I've got a few hanging around, but never made one - that is cool! I have this thing for mechanical drawing (drafting) tools - triangles, straightedges, lead pointers, bow compasses, lettering machines. etc.. Just got rid of two drafting machines - one arm type and the other parallel rule type. Won a bunch of awards in High School competitions, thought I would continue after college, but did not. Guess I like building things and making things better than drawing them.

 

[Asssiss]

Ahh, T Squares - that's what we call them here. I've got a few hanging around, but never made one - that is cool! I have this thing for mechanical drawing (drafting) tools - triangles, straightedges, lead pointers, bow compasses, lettering machines. etc.. Just got rid of two drafting machines - one arm type and the other parallel rule type. Won a bunch of awards in High School competitions, thought I would continue after college, but did not. Guess I like building things and making things better than drawing them.

Thanks for T square tip...I just translated how we call here.
I love hand drawing instead of Autocad or similars...has space for hand and automatic in the world...I never tried to do at computers.