Well, I do a lot of things backwards, I Googled after I posted the question.
The OP seemed interested because of price. I'm not sure any imported wood
will be low priced. Consider the cost of Ponderosa pine at the borg. You can
buy hardwoods cheaper. (I know, wood from New Mexico is not imported -
except in Texas it is. :-)

In the Houston area, you can buy rough ash about as cheap as any thing, IIRC
it's less expensive than red oak.


"ray" wrote in message
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:31:36 +0000, Charlie Self wrote:

Lowell Holmes asks:
What is radiata pine? :-)

Pinus radiata. Monterey pine. US and Australia, with NZ and South
Africa also
as introduced ranges. Not much different from other pines.


I googled it before asking the newsgroup, but there seemed to be a lot
more stuff on radiata as a quickly renewable wood resource than on its
working qualities. It looks different from a lot of other pine, at least
to my eye. I can't think of a really good way to describe it, but there's
a degree of chatoyance (lapidary term, kind of a sheen) to the wood that
ought to be very attractive if properly exploited.

I guess no one's used it.