On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 17:04:18 GMT, "Brian D"
wrote:

Good advice, thanks. But ...I'm from Oregon and don't know what you mean by
'a 4" wide oregon'. Do people outside the state call one of our woods
'oregon' instead of by the species name? I think I remember Douglas Fir
being called Oregon fir somewhere ...or maybe it was Hemlock. Do you happen
to know? I'm curious...

Douglas Fir is called "Oregon Pine" in UK commerce, and has been since
the 18th C, AFIK. The Brit term has migrated to the continent somehow.

An organ builder of my acquaintance in Quebec, an immigrant from
Switzerland, once showed me an Italian harpsichord made in Sweden with
an outer case of Douglas Fir. He called it "Oregon Pine" because that
is what it is called in Sweden. Go figure.

The Wood Handbook says, BTW, that it is neither fir nor pine.



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