{"id":83,"date":"2008-10-14T01:26:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T05:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2014-06-12T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T03:25:10","slug":"port-orford-cedar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/14\/port-orford-cedar\/","title":{"rendered":"Woods I love: Port Orford cedar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_1559_edited-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128  aligncenter\" title=\"img_1559_edited-22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_1559_edited-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems I\u2019m always a bit flummoxed at the adjustments in technique required when working an <strong>unfamiliar species of wood<\/strong>. I suppose I should be used to it by now, woodworking is so tactile and good results very much depend on the nuances of the tool meeting the wood surface and realizing how a particular wood is responding. However, sound skills carry through varying circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>That aside, <strong>Port Orford cedar <\/strong>is fun to work and I recommend it. I obtained thick, clear, straight-grained, old growth stock, which I resawed, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwtimber.com\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Northwest Timber<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>, Oregon, who expertly process salvaged logs. The quartersawn surface has a meditative, simple beauty. The shop is filled with its strong, spicy fragrance.<\/p>\n<p>Port Orford cedar is a light wood which responds extremely well to a sharp hand plane. Its tangential and radial shrinkage figures are a relatively stable 6.9 and 4.6, respectively, with a <strong>low 1.5 T\/R. <\/strong>That it is a <strong>soft<\/strong> wood does not imply it is entirely easy to work with, since it shows mistakes and crushes easily. I find low density woods (not necessarily softwood species) in some ways more problematic than friendly walnut or cherry. However, adapt your techniques and all should go well.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/03\/great-resource-for-woodworkers-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forest Products Laboratory<\/a><\/strong> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.fpl.fs.fed.us\/TechSheets\/SoftwoodNA\/htmlDocs\/chamaelawson.html\" target=\"_blank\">good information on Port Orford Cedar.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_1562_edited-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130\" title=\"img_1562_edited-21\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/img_1562_edited-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems I\u2019m always a bit flummoxed at the adjustments in technique required when working an unfamiliar species of wood. I suppose I should be used to it by now, woodworking is so tactile and good results very much depend on the nuances of the tool meeting the wood surface and realizing how a particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wood","tag-woods-i-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}