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Heart pine lumber.
Unmatched in depth of color and tone our antique heart pine is available in six grades ranging from delicate refined lines and quartersawn elegance to the post industrial knot and nail hole ridden visual landscape of our naily buckshot when available and 3 grades.
Early american settlers discovered a vast forest over 95 million acres spanning from the southern atlantic shoreline to the mississippi river.
Heart pine is the heartwood of the longleaf pine tree pinus palustris which is no longer harvested for commercial use and is now primarily available only as reclaimed lumber.
Award winning river recovered and reclaimed luxury antique wood flooring.
Compare and you will clearly see why goodwin is the industry gold standard.
As a result heart pine is very durable.
Heart pine refers to the heartwood of the pine tree which is the non living center of the tree trunk while the sapwood is the outer living layer which transports nutrients.
Multiple species including 200 year old heart pine and heart cypress.
Heartwood and sapwood in pinus sylvestris.
The lumberyard stuff is slash pine pinus elliottii loblolly pine pinus taeda or less often shortleaf pine pinus echinata.
Some companies sell southern yellow pine loblolly shortleaf pine slash or a combination and call it heart pine.
Often the reclaimed or old pine is called antique heart pine while pine sawn from trees today is called new heart pine.
These salvaged heart pine timbers once destined for the land fill have a wonderful hidden beauty that can only be released by sawing these timbers into lumber.
Is it truly antique.
Pine is an often overlooked flooring material due as it s a softer wood although heart pine is different from yellow or white pine.
Incidentally the name southern yellow pine when referring to graded lumber includes only the four major species.
This forest grew trees four feet in diameter and up to 150 feet tall.
These trees were very dense and high in resign content.
Although they are pine and they have heartwood antique longleaf pine especially the river recovered wood is stronger more durable more stable and has a richer patina and color.
It can be the heartwood of the southern pines.
These slow growth heartwood pine trees matured in 400 to 500 years.
Heart pine does not have to be reclaimed or centuries old.
If you re looking for something unique for your home it s certainly an option and a wood with a very interesting history from a production standpoint.
Antique heart pine lumber 100 of our antique heart pine lumber sawn from reclaimed old growth pine timbers and decking.
Heart pine is our cornerstone product and our favorite wood to work with.
