Expert WoodWorks, We 'DO' Wood At Its Best, From A Log To Furniture

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Photo Album UPDATED as of 10-07-11
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Photo album features the following:
furniture, painted items along with sawmill images and wood species images

A Family owned and operated business.
Furniture built and designed to your specifications.
Custom cut wood built to fit your small or large spaces.
Variety of woods from pine to oak to walnut among others.
Specializing in antique reproductions...example;
pie safes, dry sinks, jelly cabinets(small pie safe), etc.
All solid wood construction and/or cabinet grade veneer plywood, absolutely 'no' particle board .. (particle board image)

We feature quality handmade furniture that doesn't have to make a "boat trip" from foreign countries. The lumber we use is cut from Indiana trees into lumber on site and then custom dried in two solar kilns. Drying time takes about 45-60(depends on the weather) days in the solar kilns, after air drying for 30 days.

The following pictures are a sample of what we do, aside from the custom work.

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We also do custom sawing
If you have logs or barn timbers that you would like to have cut into lumber, email for fee,
If you want it dried email for a price also.

Re-sawing-Moldings-Planing
If your wanting lumber resawed or made into moldings
or just looking for your lumber to be planed down, we can do that just drop us a email.

What we offer is the following wood species in lumber sales.
Rough sawn Oak, Walnut, Cherry, and several other species,
Prices vary per species and will be for Kiln Dried, Rough Cut Lumber.
Please email for prices and availablity
Lumber is random length and width. Most stock is 4/4" thick.

Q. What is quartersawn lumber?
A. Technically, quartersawn lumber has the growth rings of the tree approximately perpendicular to the board's broad face. In contrast, plain sawn lumber has the growth rings parallel to the board's broad face. Quartersawn produces both quartered and rift lumber.
Q. How is quartersawn lumber achieved?
A. There is only one true way to quarter saw a log and we do it this way. First, we cut a log into quarters. Each quarter is then processed by cutting a single board off one face, then cutting the next board from the opposite face, and cutting from alternating faces until the quarter is completely cut.
Q. What are the aesthetic qualities of quartersawn lumber?
A. The most notable characteristic of quartersawn lumber lies in its incomparable grain patterns. Also depends on the log and the grain in the wood. Medullary ray fleck, wavy grain and interlocked grain are all visually enhanced when the log is quartersawn. The revival of Mission style furniture is just one example of how today's artisans are rediscovering the unique beauty of quartersawn lumber.Today's heirloom furniture, the antiques of tomorrow, is crafted from quartersawn lumber. Quality reproductions and renovations of artisans' work demand true quartersawn lumber. Quartersawn wood is the choice of wood artisans.
Q. What are the structural qualities of quartersawn lumber?
A. Quartersawn lumber is the uncontested winner when compared to plain (or flat)
sawn lumber. Quartersawn features include:
* Reduces shrinking and swelling in lumber width.
* Reduces twisting, warping and cupping.
* Less prone to surface checking.
* Wears more evenly in flooring applications.
* Does not allow liquids to readily pass through it.
* Smooth surface as raised grain is not pronounced.
Q. What's the difference between quartered and rift lumber?
A. A quartered board features medullary ray or "fleck" perpendicular to a grain, which typically forms angles from 60 degrees to 90 degrees with the board’s surface. A rift board exhibits a clean, straight, vertical grain pattern, which typically forms angles from 30 to 60 degrees with the board's surface.
Q. If quarter sawing is so good, why don't all sawmills do it?
A. For most, the art of quarter sawing has been lost over the years. Like many superior practices of the past, quarter sawing lost favor to plain sawing techniques. Plain sawing is easier, cheaper and quicker … but it results in more waste, less grain characteristic and less stable lumber.
Q. How we saw for best grade of lumber out of a log.
A. Opening cuts are done with the bark still on the log We take a 6" opening slab cut on the worst face of the log. then I turn log 180 degrees..and take a 6" opening cut in that face. then I take a number of 1" boards of that face and then turn log 90 degrees, and open that face with a 6" slab cut... then take a number of boards off that face until the grade of the lumber goes down. Then I turn to last face, open it up with a 6" cut. If the face shows good, take a number of boards off it until the grade goes down. Continue sawing the best face and turning the log to saw the best face possible. Any boards needing edging are edged after the log is sawed. Some need both sides edged, some will only need one edge....some might not need any edging. Usually the center of the log is the lowest grade of lumber. This is called the 'heart' wood and it might contain bugs, ants, rot, knots, etc.

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