When I owned a small joinery in Beaufort, North Carolina, I specialised in solid timber fitouts and worked with a variety of styles and hardwoods but some folks wanted traditional colonial profiles in the yellow pine. Most homes were being finished off with softer easier to work timber trims but I enjoyed working with yellow pine, made it a specialty and always had some extra lying about for pet projects.

Yellow Pine grows tall and straight. In the old days it was valued both as a building material and for spars and masts. The timber is harder than most pines and the sap could be rendered into turpentine, pitch and tar. North Carolinians are sometimes called tarheels and some say this dates back to colonial times when tar, pitch and turpentine were major export items for the colony.

	Here are two yellow pine side tables based on a traditional Shaker style and a solid little stool made from 5/4 yellow pine stair tread offcuts that the ladies liked to have around when they wanted to reach things on the top shelf.
	Here is a traditional trestle table made from yellow pine un-traditionally edge glued using biscuits and 2 part epoxy.