Heart Pine Lumber

Heart pine wood heart pine is the old growth yellow pine once common in the american south and atlantic coast regions.

Heart pine lumber.

Often the reclaimed or old pine is called antique heart pine while pine sawn from trees today is called new heart pine. The lumberyard stuff is slash pine pinus elliottii loblolly pine pinus taeda or less often shortleaf pine pinus echinata. Heartwood and sapwood in pinus sylvestris. Antique heart pine lumber 100 of our antique heart pine lumber sawn from reclaimed old growth pine timbers and decking.

These trees were very dense and high in resign content. Some companies sell southern yellow pine loblolly shortleaf pine slash or a combination and call it heart pine. 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. As a result heart pine is very durable.

Award winning river recovered and reclaimed luxury antique wood flooring. Incidentally the name southern yellow pine when referring to graded lumber includes only the four major species. These slow growth heartwood pine trees matured in 400 to 500 years. You deserve only the best.

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. Designed and preserved by nature carefully recovered and expertly refined. Heart pine is our cornerstone product and our favorite wood to work with. Pine is an often overlooked flooring material due as it s a softer wood although heart pine is different from yellow or white pine.

Early american settlers discovered a vast forest over 95 million acres spanning from the southern atlantic shoreline to the mississippi river. This forest grew trees four feet in diameter and up to 150 feet tall. Is it truly antique. Heart pine does not have to be reclaimed or centuries old.

Compare and you will clearly see why goodwin is the industry gold standard. It can be the heartwood of the southern pines. Heartpine is the finest lumber ever grown. Multiple species including 200 year old heart pine and heart cypress.

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.