
, Woodworker's Journal Magazine Click Here to Subscribe Sign Up to Get Free Plans Visit Our Online Store The Cheap , Good Wood February 6th , 2012 by Tim Knight 5 Comments USDA Forest Service Archive , USDA Forest Service , Bugwood.org I know . The words cheap and good usually aren’t used together when the subject is wood for woodworking . But in the case of the Southern yellow pines , this wording is . well-suited Southern yellow pine is a catchall phrase for all of the Southern pines . They include loblolly , shortleaf , slash , longleaf and Virginia , as well as some other minor species . They are commonly known as softwoods” and are mostly sold as dimensional lumber for . construction There are perhaps a couple of reasons many woodworkers are biased against the yellow pines for use in