The mills, the species, and why we drive past a hundred big-box stores to get there.
Almost every board that runs through our shop comes from within a 200-mile radius. There's a practical reason — northeastern hardwoods are simply some of the best in the world — and a values reason.
We work with three family mills in Pennsylvania, upstate New York, and northern New Jersey. They're FSC-certified, they replant aggressively, and they harvest selectively rather than clear-cutting.
Local sourcing also means we can hand-pick boards. We drive out, walk the racks, and pull the slabs we want for a specific project. You can't do that with a national distributor.
It's slower, occasionally more expensive, and absolutely worth it. The grain match on a Timberwick dining table is only possible because we chose every board ourselves.