Why Work with Reclaimed Lumber

Creating something using reclaimed wood is truly a unique process, different from any other type of work.  First of all we must accept the deformations, and the flaws that affect each individual board. You must look through the obvious issues caused by flawed wood and realize that the character in that piece is the story and life attached to it. The years of exposure to wind, rain, heat and cold, man and animal, have helped create a distinctive board and a genuine personality that cannot be imitated or repeated no matter how hard we try. We must find a way to use those short comings to our advantage, not fight them.  It is a different process than going to your local lumber mill where a person rejects the boards that are littered with knots or cupped like a bowl and twisted like a spring. When we use reclaimed lumber what we see is what we get. We have learned to accept and respect the wood and all of its imperfections. We must use the holes left by nails, we must work with the coil of the wood.  Quite simply, reclaimed wood has a quality that cannot be found in fresh cut lumber  and offers technical and creative challenges that are absent from lumber mill or engineered wood.




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