Pinus pinaster

Maritime Pine

The pine of the Atlantic coast and the Landes. The most resinous and least stable wood KORENA lists, with a bold coarse figure that suits rustic work.

Irċievi avviż meta tasalSpeċi ta’ referenza. Bħalissa ebda biċċa fl-istokk.

Huwa tajjeb għall-proġett tiegħek?

Tajjeb ħafna għal

Rustic tabletops
Panelling
Carcass work
Painted furniture
Shelving

Ebda Maritime Pine fil-ħarġa attwali

Speċijiet simili fl-istokk

Bħalissa m’hemmx Maritime Pine. Dawn l-ispeċijiet jgħoddu għall-istess proġetti u għandhom biċċiet disponibbli.

Irċievi avviż dwar Maritime Pine

Nibagħtulek email meta jaslu fallakki friski ta’ Maritime Pine għand KORENA. Kull biċċa hija unika, għalhekk avviż bikri jgħin.

Dehra tal-injam

Kif jidher

Pale yellow to reddish brown heartwood against wide pale sapwood, with very wide growth rings reflecting fast coastal growth. The ring contrast is strong, giving a bold and slightly coarse figure. It is the most resinous species KORENA lists, which is both its historical value, as the tree was tapped for turpentine for centuries, and its main working difficulty.

Pale yellow to reddish brown heartwood
Wide pale sapwood band
Wide growth rings with strong earlywood to latewood contrast
Straight grain with very wide rings and extreme earlywood to latewood contrast, giving a bold coarse figure. Pale yellow to reddish brown, highly resinous.

Kif taħdem bih

Kif taħdmu

Works fairly well with most tools, but the resin gums up tools and clogs sandpaper more than in any other species here. Abrasives should be treated as consumable. The wide, soft earlywood bands between hard latewood bands mean the surface can wash out under sanding, leaving a rippled face, so scraping is preferable to heavy abrasive work. Sharp cutters are essential.

Finitura

Wipe down with denatured alcohol or acetone before finishing to lift surface resin, otherwise oil finishes may stay tacky in patches. Once clean it takes oil and wax well. Pigment stains blotch severely because of the extreme density contrast between earlywood and latewood, so a dye or a clear finish is much safer. Seal knots with shellac before any painted finish.

Tnixxif

Dries reasonably quickly but is prone to distortion given the wide rings and often spiral grain of fast grown coastal stock. A hot kiln schedule drives resin to the surface where it sets sticky and interferes with finishing later. Air drying followed by a low temperature kiln finish is the sensible route. Volumetric shrinkage at around 14.4 percent is the highest of any species KORENA lists, so movement in service is substantial.

Kemm se jiċċaqlaq?

L-injam jintefaħ u jiċkien tul il-wisa’ hekk kif l-arja ssir aktar jew inqas umda. Stima l-moviment staġjonali ta’ wiċċ ta’ Maritime Pine qabel tiddisinja t-twaħħil.

Wisa’ tal-wiċċ800 mm

Qatgħa

Fejn se tintuża

Moviment staġjonali mistenni

madwar 10.3 mm

Waħħal il-wiċċ b’buttuni jew brackets b’fetħiet, mhux b’kolla jew viti ssikkati.

Mudell ta’ tnaqqis lineari: wisa’ × (tnaqqis ÷ 28 % saturazzjoni tal-fibra) × bidla staġjonali fl-umdità. Juża tnaqqis tanġenzjali ta’ 9 % għal Maritime Pine. Stima għall-ippjanar, mhux garanzija.

Kemm jiswa

Sigurtà u provvista

Working with pine has been reported to cause allergic skin reactions and asthma-like symptoms in some people. Because this species carries more resin than the others here, skin contact sensitisation is a more realistic risk over repeated exposure. Gloves when handling and good extraction while machining are worth the habit.

Aqra l-gwida sħiħaNoti dettaljati dwar id-disinn tal-vina, il-bidla fil-kulur, ix-xogħol u l-istabbiltà.

What Maritime Pine actually is#

Pinus pinaster is the pine of the western Mediterranean and the Atlantic seaboard of Iberia and France. The Landes forest in southwest France, planted on former dunes and marsh from the nineteenth century onward, is the largest planted pine forest in western Europe and the principal commercial source of this timber.

For centuries the tree was more valuable standing than felled, because it was tapped for resin to produce turpentine and rosin. That history is the single most useful fact about the wood, because the resin that made it commercially important is also what makes it the most demanding species in this catalogue to machine and finish.

Reading a Maritime Pine slab#

Fast coastal growth produces very wide growth rings, and the contrast between the soft pale earlywood and the hard dark latewood is extreme. The result is a bold, coarse figure with a lot of visual movement, quite different from the fine even texture of spruce or fir.

That coarseness is the honest character of the wood and suits rustic work well. It does not suit a design asking for a quiet, uniform surface.

Colour runs pale yellow to reddish brown in the heartwood against a wide pale sapwood band. Spiral grain is common in fast grown coastal stock and is worth checking for, because it is the main cause of the distortion this species is prone to.

Mistoqsijiet tax-xerrejja

Why is Maritime Pine so much stickier to work than other pines?

It carries more resin than any other species KORENA lists, which is why it was tapped commercially for turpentine and rosin for centuries. The resin softens with cutting heat and deposits on blades, in saw gullets and across abrasives. Clean blades with a resin solvent between operations and expect sandpaper to load quickly.

How much will it move?

More than anything else in this catalogue. Volumetric shrinkage is around 14.4 percent, the highest figure KORENA lists, with tangential movement at 9.0 percent against 4.5 percent radial. A wide flatsawn top will change noticeably between seasons, so it must float on slotted fasteners and should acclimatise in its final room before flattening.

Why does the surface look rippled after sanding?

The earlywood bands are much softer than the latewood bands and abrasives cut them away faster, leaving a washboard surface. This is worse in Maritime Pine than other pines because the rings are wide and the contrast extreme. Use a card scraper or a sharp plane for the final surface rather than sanding it flat.

Is it strong enough for a table?

Proprjetajiet mekkaniċi

Data teknika

Valuri ta’ referenza ppubblikati. Fejn is-sorsi ma jaqblux tintwera l-firxa, bil-valur tipiku użat għall-iskali ta’ hawn fuq.

Densità (kg/m³)	500 kg/m³
Ebusija Janka (N)	1,740 N
MOR: modulu tal-ksur (MPa)	73 MPa
MOE: modulu tal-elastiċità (GPa)	8.5 GPa
Tnaqqis radjali	4.5 %
Tnaqqis tanġenzjali	9.0 %

Pinus pinaster is the pine of the western Mediterranean and the Atlantic coast of Iberia and France. The Landes forest in southwest France is the largest planted pine forest in western Europe and the main commercial source. Portuguese and Spanish material is also common in the EU market.

Not listed in the CITES Appendices and assessed by the IUCN as Least Concern. The Landes plantations are intensively managed and certified supply is readily available, which makes documentation straightforward. Fire is the significant risk to supply in this species range, and large burn events periodically push salvage volumes into the market.

At the bench, and the resin problem#

Maritime Pine works fairly well with most tools, and then the resin asserts itself.

It gums blades faster than larch, which is saying something. It loads abrasives so quickly that sandpaper should be budgeted as a consumable rather than a tool. Saw gullets pack. Plane soles need clearing. None of this is difficult, but all of it is constant, and a schedule built on pine machining speeds will run over.

There is a second, subtler machining problem. Because the earlywood bands are wide and much softer than the latewood, abrasives cut the soft bands away faster than the hard ones. Sand a Maritime Pine face flat and you get a washboard: a rippled surface that catches light unevenly. The fix is to produce the final surface with a sharp plane or a card scraper and use abrasives only lightly, if at all.

Drying and movement#

This species moves more than anything else KORENA lists. Volumetric shrinkage is around 14.4 percent, with tangential movement at 9.0 percent against 4.5 percent radial, a ratio of two to one that guarantees flatsawn boards will want to cup.

It also dries with a tendency to distort, driven by the wide rings and frequent spiral grain of fast grown stock. A hot kiln schedule compounds the problem by drawing resin to the surface, where it sets sticky and sabotages the finish months later.

Air drying under cover followed by a low temperature kiln finish is the route that works. Ask the yard what schedule was used, and let any slab acclimatise in its final room for a couple of weeks before final flattening. On a KORENA listing the drying method and measured moisture are recorded, so this is checkable rather than a matter of trust.

Start with a solvent wipe. Denatured alcohol or acetone across the surface, allowed to flash off, lifts the mobile surface resin. Skip this and an oil finish will cure unevenly and stay tacky in patches, which is a fault that only appears after the work is otherwise done.

Once clean it takes oil and wax well. Pigment stains blotch severely here, worse than on any other pine, because the density contrast is so extreme. Use a dye or leave it clear. Seal knots with shellac before any painted finish.

Where Maritime Pine is the right answer#

Rustic tabletops, panelling, carcass work and shelving where the bold coarse figure is wanted and the movement can be designed around. It is inexpensive, widely available and honest about what it is.

It is the wrong answer for fine work, for anything requiring dimensional precision across a wide panel, for a surface that must stay unmarked at 1,740 N Janka, and for any project where the finishing schedule cannot absorb the extra solvent and cleaning steps.

Not CITES listed and assessed as Least Concern. The Landes plantations are intensively managed with good certification coverage, so documentation is straightforward and supply is reliable. The one thing to be aware of is fire. Large burn events in southwest France and Iberia periodically push significant salvage volumes into the market, and salvage material is legitimate but should be identified as such rather than discovered on arrival.

At 1,740 N Janka it is soft, close to Norway Spruce and well below Scots Pine at 2,420 N. It makes a rustic tabletop that will dent and record use. For a surface expected to stay unmarked, choose a hardwood.

Is my oil finish going to stay tacky?

It will if you skip the solvent wipe. Clean the surface with denatured alcohol or acetone and let it flash off before applying any oil, and be more thorough about it than you would with Scots Pine. Kiln dried stock that was pushed hot carries the most surface resin.

Tnaqqis volumetriku	14.4 %

Durabbiltà naturali (EN 350)	Class 4 — Slightly durable

Sorsi

The Wood Database — Maritime Pine (Pinus pinaster)(aċċessat 2026-08-12)
USDA FPL Wood Handbook FPL-GTR-190 (2010)(aċċessat 2026-08-12)
Meier, E. — WOOD! Identifying and Using Hundreds of Woods Worldwide (2015)(aċċessat 2026-08-12)

Oqgħod attent

Agħfas tikketta għad-dettalji.

Daqqa t’għajn

EbusijaArtab

Ebusija Janka: 1,740 N

65 % aktar artab mill-oak Ewropew

PiżĦafif

500 kg/m³

StabbiltàAttiv

14.4 % tnaqqis volumetriku

XogħolJitlob ħafna xogħol

medja ta’ 3.1 / 5 fuq il-bank

Użu barraGħal ġewwa biss

Klassi EN 350 4

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