Heart Pine Lumber

These slow growth heartwood pine trees matured in 400 to 500 years.

Heart pine lumber.

Incidentally the name southern yellow pine when referring to graded lumber includes only the four major species. Early american settlers discovered a vast forest over 95 million acres spanning from the southern atlantic shoreline to the mississippi river. Some companies sell southern yellow pine loblolly shortleaf pine slash or a combination and call it heart pine. Designed and preserved by nature carefully recovered and expertly refined.

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. As a result heart pine is very durable. Heart pine wood heart pine is the old growth yellow pine once common in the american south and atlantic coast regions. 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.

This forest grew trees four feet in diameter and up to 150 feet tall. Heartpine is the finest lumber ever grown. 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. Pine is an often overlooked flooring material due as it s a softer wood although heart pine is different from yellow or white pine.

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. Is it truly antique. Compare and you will clearly see why goodwin is the industry gold standard. Often the reclaimed or old pine is called antique heart pine while pine sawn from trees today is called new heart pine.

You deserve only the best. Heart pine is our cornerstone product and our favorite wood to work with. These trees were very dense and high in resign content. Antique heart pine lumber 100 of our antique heart pine lumber sawn from reclaimed old growth pine timbers and decking.

The lumberyard stuff is slash pine pinus elliottii loblolly pine pinus taeda or less often shortleaf pine pinus echinata. It can be the heartwood of the southern pines. Heartwood and sapwood in pinus sylvestris. 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.

Heart pine does not have to be reclaimed or centuries old.