Quote Originally Posted by gustavus View Post
A month or so back I salvaged some moldings and door casings from a 100 year old house, the wood is first growth Fir.



The board in the picture is 3/4" wide, count the rings. It had taken mother nature 30 years to add an 1 1/2 diameter to that huge Fir.

Because of the nature of 1rst growth Fir it's very hard and it stays nice and straight.

I have some old Redwood that looks a lot like that, especially in the grain