I have found when I wasable to do wood working that pine was the easiest and nicest smelling wood but once it aged you had all you could do to work it . It seemed to split where you did not want it to.  Certan maples were the same way   bob w.

Quote from: amertrac on May 11, 2012, 05:38:54 AM
I have found when I wasable to do wood working that pine was the easiest and nicest smelling wood but once it aged you had all you could do to work it . It seemed to split where you did not want it to.  Certan maples were the same way   bob w.

Pine has got to be just about the nicest smelling wood around!  I thought cedar was nice until we had to mill a bunch -- after the first half of the first day, I couldn't stand any more.  But pine?  Weeks of milling pine were pleasant.

White oak, in my experience, once cured, doesn't like to split at all.