Scots pine = deal = redwoods

I did a Google search on 'Scots pine deal' and came up with everything
but names of merchants.  My guess is that this stuff isn't all that
exotic: there is a preservative that claims to be suitable for porches
and decks made of 'Scots pine' or 'deal.'  Another reference says that
this wood is used for fences.

All of which makes it obvious why Constantine's fancy wood store
doesn't carry it, though I've certainly never heard of it before.  It
could well be available in the form of planks and two-by-fours at your
local lumberyard, which may know it by a different name.  Or else the
lumberyard is like our Lowe's, which doesn't really know the precise
variety of any of the 'whitewoods' it sells.

Your wood seems to have a lot of alternate names: Polish redwood,
Swedish redwood, Baltic redwood, European redwood, and a few others
that I've forgotten.  If it's strong and cheap, you might find it being
used in construction plywood or for shipping pallets.

What you might want to do is to take a sample of the wood you wish to
match to the oldest lumberyard you can find.  If you really run out
of luck, you might check with your local used furniture charity store
(Goodwill in the US.)  Examine the bottoms and sides of the drawers in
old bureaus: you might find what you need there.

I happen to live near the Appalachian region of southern Ohio, an area
that's poor in money but rich in hardwoods.  There's a pallet factory
not far from here that sells their extra cut-offs -- oak blocks -- for
firewood.  That factory recently came to their senses and now sells
their better boards (at a suitably healthy price) to woodworkers.  But
I recently rescued a four-foot-square shipping pallet made of some
local red oak that's just glorious.  It's waiting in the garage for
me to disassemble it and build something out of it.

Please tell us how your search goes.

Mark Kinsler
Lancaster, Ohio, USA
http://home.earthlink.net/~mkinsler1