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Originally Posted by LWJ
That's some good looking fir. I had a 1914 Portland house with that stuff. So tough after 90 years you needed to drill a starter hole for a nail. Serious.
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My brother worked on a crew modernizing and updating an Antebellum mansion in Alabama. Back in the days when it was built, they used mahogany to frame the house, as it is termite proof. It is so hard termites just find something else to eat.
They modify some of the roof structure to fit in a central AC system, and new wiring and plumbing. My brother said he put his steel blade skill saw on a beam, and it just ruined the blade and made just a small cut on the edge of the mahogany. They had to use concrete saws to cut the stuff.
He kept a few pieces of the scrap, and you can't dent the wood at all with a fingernail.