Commission something
Risers, planters, cladding, bar fronts. Tell us the dimensions and the room.
Six things, and a standing invitation to ask for a seventh.
There is no catalogue because there is no production run. Every piece is built from whatever came off the sort line that week, which is both the limitation and the point.
Retail risers & crate displays
Stackable display crates and tiered risers for farm shops, bakeries, breweries and market stalls. The wood keeps its stencils and nail shadows, which is the entire appeal.
Raised planters & garden beds
Deep beds in three standard footprints, built from untreated boards only — we document the feedstock for anyone growing food in them.
Wall cladding packs
Sorted, de-nailed, planed board packs sold by the square foot in warm, grey or mixed tone. Enough variation to look real, enough sorting to install without swearing.
Bar & counter fronts
Panelled fronts and service counters for taprooms and cafés. Built on the bench, delivered in sections, installed by your fit-out crew.
Shipping-crate furniture
Low tables, benches, shelving and shop fittings on request. Not a catalogue — a conversation with the person at the bench.
Event & set pieces
Backdrops, stall fronts, signage blanks and staging for markets and festivals. Hired or sold, and taken back afterwards.
We leave the history visible.
Nail shadows, stencil fragments, the grey of eight winters outdoors, a stamp from a mill in Georgia. We de-nail, we clean, we plane where it needs planing — and then we stop. Sanding a reclaimed board until it looks new is a strange thing to pay for.
What we will not leave is anything unsafe: no protruding fasteners, no treated-wood ambiguity in a planter, no splinter edges on a surface people will touch.
What reclaimed board actually is.
Species, density and moisture behaviour, because a cladding pack that was not acclimatised will open gaps in its first heating season.
| Species | Group | Specific gravity | Stiffness | Nail holding | Weight | Cost | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern yellow pine | Softwood | 0.51 (oven-dry sg) | Moderate | Moderate | Light | $ | Plantation-grown, abundant, dimensionally stable once dried. The default for new builds. |
| Appalachian red oak | Hardwood | 0.63 | High | Excellent | Heavy | $$$ | Stiffest common option. Best for racked spans and high-cycle closed loops. |
| Poplar / tulipwood | Hardwood | 0.42 | Moderate | Good | Light-medium | $$ | Light for a hardwood, clean-looking, favoured on the millwork bench. |
| Maple (soft) | Hardwood | 0.54 | High | Very good | Medium-heavy | $$ | Common in mixed Appalachian loads; good all-rounder. |
| Sweetgum | Hardwood | 0.52 | Moderate | Good | Medium | $ | Prone to warping if dried badly. Fine in a repaired platform, awkward in millwork. |
| Mixed Appalachian | Hardwood | 0.42–0.63 | Variable | Good–excellent | Medium-heavy | $$ | What a recycled hardwood load actually is. Strong, heavy, and genuinely inconsistent. |
A recycled load is a mix by definition, because the recovered pool is a mix. We sort to a single species group on request, which costs more and takes longer.
| State | Moisture content | Mould risk | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green, off the saw | 60–120%+ | Very high | Heavy, moves as it dries, blooms readily. Rarely what you want. |
| Air dried, yard stored | 15–22% | Moderate | Typical of outdoor recycled stock in a humid month. |
| Kiln dried | ≤19% | Low | Below the biological threshold for mould. The usual specification. |
| Kiln dried, millwork grade | 8–12% | Very low | For cladding and interior work, matched to heated-interior equilibrium. |
| Reclaimed, long service | 10–16% | Low | Years of cycling beat any kiln schedule for stability. An under-appreciated advantage. |
Moisture content is water weight divided by oven-dry weight, which is why green softwood can exceed 100%. Heat treatment is not kiln drying — see moisture explained.