Wood sap on rafters can exist in two different forms.
Amber like resin on attic beams.
There are these tiny crystals about half a millimeter all over the wood in the attic.
Amberlite and amberlyst resins.
Amber is fossilized resin.
I was examining my attic with a head lamp and the light illuminated the wood just right and these amber drops started to glow.
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It probably got hot enough in the attic and it melted out this happens over time through many heating and cooling cycles.
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The reason it is leaking out of the wood there is because it looks like there was a particularliy resinous knot in the pine.
Amberlite chromatographic grade ion exchange resins.
You would never have sap leaking out of dried wood.
Initially sap sweats out of rafters in liquid droplets that can range in color from yellow to a dark red or amber.
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And since beams are up on the ceiling and cannot be examined close up they just might pass for the real thing.
Make sure you watch the video to the last second i know i know total accident on burning the resin.
Avoid conducting this test on small amber beads as it may destroy the bead completely.
What does wood sap on rafters look like.
They are on the surface of a lot of the wood in the attic.
However to distinguish the piece from other materials make sure to smell the piece you have and if it smells of pine tree resin it is probably genuine amber.
If not caught early sap can harden and crystallize.
Wood sap can hang from rafters in a long drop that resembles a long tear drop.
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Amber is a scent so popular that many varieties of the fragrance exist golden amber dark amber celestial amber and so on each fragrance slightly different than the next.
However my husband and i seem to like the amber look.
The beams look remarkably like the real thing.