It's not related, but the comments remind me of getting into the walls of a couple of plain houses for small projects. They were framed in old growth Redwood, and quite a ways away from where they were logged. It's probably like good SYP, they don't make 'em like they used to. Geeze Stan, seven piece crown molding and cut nails, that was not easy.
The carpenter showed out on that, craigd. I'll try to get a pic of it tomorrow. I love it. It has what he called "dental work". He was just a country carpenter, but he had vision.
Old SYP lumber is highly sought after, even now. Some of the real old country churches have pews made of very wide SYP boards. Those old church pews are very valuable, but alas, there are almost none left.
One interesting fact is that the masts on many of the old sailing ships were made of SYP. Whole trees were turned into huge, tall main masts.
https://books.google.com/books?id=oOwOAA...sts&f=false SRH
