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Timonium Commerce Park
9572 Deereco Rd.
Timonium, MD 21093

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All lumber is kiln dried unless otherwise stated. Please call or stop by the shop for real time stock quotes.


White Cedar

Thuja occidentalis

white cedar

Distribution:

Northern white cedar is native to Quebec (the Anticosti Islands and Gaspe' Peninsula), New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, southwestern Nova Scotia and Maine, west to northern Ontario and southeastern Manitoba, south to southeastern Minnesota and northeastern Illinois, east to extreme northwestern Indiana, Michigan, southern Ontario, southern New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Also locally in central Manitoba and the Appalachian Mountains in western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee.

General Characteristics:

The sapwood of northern white cedar is thin and white, while the heartwood is a light brown. The wood has an aromatic spicy 'cedary or pencil-like' odor. It has an even grain, fine texture, and the lowest density of any commercial domestic wood (19 pcf). The heartwood is resistant to decay and subterranean termites. It is easy to work with hand tools, and is average in machinability. It is dimensionally stable, glues well and holds paint well. It is soft and has low mechanical properties (bending and compressive strength, hardness, stiffness, shock and splitting resistance and nail and screw holding ability).

Uses:

Rustic fencing and posts, cabin logs, lumber, poles, shingles, shipping containers, piling, lagging, pails, tubs, ties, boat building (especially canoe ribs).