Janka Hardness:
3000 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: Brazil
About Brazilian Rosewood:
The heartwood of Brazilian Rosewood varies from a deep, rich dark brown to a purplish black. Its sapwood ranges from white to tan. The difference between the heartwood and sapwood color can be significant, leading some flooring manufacturers to steam the lumber to bleed the darker heartwood color into the sapwood to produce uniformity in color.
Brazilian Rosewood has a predominantly straight and open grain. On occasion, boards have been found with burled or curly grain. The pore arrangement of Brazilian Rosewood approaches that of hickory and persimmon, but are smaller in size.
Brazilian Rosewood is re-known for its strength, hardness, stability, beauty, and acoustic properties, and has been used for everything from flooring to guitars.
Over the past few decades Brazilian Rosewood has been exploited and over harvested leading to its being placed in the most restrictive category of endangered species: CITES Appendix I. Brazilian Rosewood is prohibited from being imported or exported from country to country. Finished products made of Brazilian Rosewood are also banned from crossing international boundaries.
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Janka Hardness:
2200 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: Tropical Americas
About Bocote:
Prized for its beauty, bocote is a particularly fine, beautiful wood, ranging in color in the heartwood from light to golden brown, with irregular blackish streaks. The sapwood can be grayish or yellowish. If quarter-sawn, the wood has an attractive ray-fleck figure. The grain of bocote is usually straight or shallowly interlocked. The texture is fairly uniform and typically ranges from fine to medium, with a somewhat waxy or oily appearance.
A very dense wood, bocote is moderately strong and durable. The bending strength of bocote is comparable to that of teak, while the compression strength is comparable to that of mahogany. It is highly resistant to insects.
Bocote is one of the hardest and most durable choices for wood flooring. It is one hundred and twenty percent harder than teak, sixty-one percent harder than white oak, fifty-one percent harder than hard maple, about twenty-one percent harder than hickory or pecan, fourteen percent harder than jarrah, identical in hardness to santos mahogany, and is almost ninety-four percent as hard as Brazilian cherry’s ranking of 2350.
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Janka Hardness:
1260 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: USA
About Birch:
A longtime favorite in premium cabinetry and millwork, Birch is extremely durable and has distinctive blends of lighter coloration. Each board has an intriguing combination of blonde outer edges and warm cherry-like center portions. Its varying grain patterns range from subtle swirls to highly figured flames. The result is a very unusual floor that is sure to become the focal point in any contemporary or traditional setting.
The sapwood of yellow birch ranges from pale white to creamy yellow, while the heartwood tends to be a light-reddish brown with a red tinge. By contrast, the sapwood of sweet birch is light-colored, whereas the heartwood is dark brown with a red tinge. Birch has a small degree of luster, making it seem almost dull in appearance.
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Janka Hardness:
2900 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: South America
About Blondewood:
Bloodwood is beautiful dense wood, which is very red in color and holds that color over time. Bloodewood exhibits a fairly wide range of color variation, from pale orange colors through to deep blood red.
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Janka Hardness:
1300 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: USA
About Beech:
While the sapwood is generally pale white, the heartwood of the American beech is mostly reddish brown. There is often a moderate to high color variation between boards. The grain of the wood is straight, and mostly closed, with a fine, uniform texture. This species is coarser than the European beech. Beechwood surfaces may sometimes have a silvery sheen.
Beech is frequently used in factory floors and other high-traffic areas, since it wears well and stays smooth when subjected to repeated friction. The wood is hard and elastic, with excellent shock-resistance.
American beech is thirty percent harder than teak, almost identical to red oak in hardness (under one percent), four percent softer than white oak, ten percent softer than hard maple, thirty-two percent softer than jarrah, and just over fifty-nine percent as hard as santos mahogany’s ranking of 2200.
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Janka Hardness:
1320 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: USA
About Ash:
Ash is an amazingly dense and durable wood with a unique elasticity. (It’s the traditional wood used for baseball bats.) These qualities also make Ash a great choice for radiant heat, concrete slab foundations or anywhere humidity is a factor.
From an aesthetic standpoint, Ash is prized for its interesting grain patterns and striking hues, from the cream-colored and light almond outer portions of the tree to the rich nutty brown heartwood.
The sapwood of white ash is creamy white, while the heartwood ranges from light tan to dark brown. The grain is bold and straight, with an occasional wavy pattern; and in plain-sawn boards it can have a strong contrast. The wood has a lustrous appearance, and the texture is rather coarse.
Natural or unstained, Ash offers a very sophisticated look with high impact resistance.
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Janka Hardness:
3040 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: Brazil
About Angelim Pedra:
Angelim Pedra hardwood flooring is characterized by a well-defined rich red and deep brown vertical grain. Behind this grain lies Angelim Pedra’s base color, which varies slightly, often appearing light mustard yellow or a warm tan. This wood gives off a natural luster, which increases the feeling of depth between the base color and the richer grain. Angelim pedra is a medium-density wood, with a low moisture content. Since the timber is heavy and very hard, the shrinkage is slight. The wood has no distinctive odor. Receiving a high rating in durability, this wood is resilient to pressure and environment and is unattractive to rot and fungi. Compared to many hardwoods, Angelim Pedra is particularly conducive to easy installation, and it is more attractive than its often pricier competitors.
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Company Profile:
Dale Carlisle started his business from a small home hobby and established it into the company that it is today. In the beginning, he milled each floor by hand, delivered the floors in his truck and personally installed them. Eventually, Dale built up a reputation for providing quality wide plank flooring.
In addition to his residential customers, Dale Carlisle found himself in demand by professional restorers of historic homes, museums, old government buildings and landmarks of all kinds. He was able to create custom surface treatments and stains that match boards 300 years old. Because the majority of the homes built in the USA in the 1600s-1700s used use pine wide plank flooring, Carlisle Wide Plank Floors is the go-to vendor for historically accurate restoration projects.
Carlisle Wide Plan Floors is an expert on tree selection, harvesting, drying, milling and manufacture of wood floors. Carlisle Wide Plank Floors prides itself on the personal relationships with satisfied customers it has built over the years.
Product Profile:
Carlisle Wide Plank Floors are crafted one board at a time. Each board comes from the heartwood to ensure maximum stability, i.e., boards that won’t cup or twist, and which aesthetically have the densest and most beautiful vertical grain. Next comes a two-stage curing process. At the Carlisle mill, woodworking craftsmen examine each board to decide which side has the most potential. They mill the other side with stress reliefs to increase the board’s stability once installed.
Finally, the boards are milled again, this time on freshly sharpened planners so sharp that the boards will not require sanding afterwards.
The master craftsmen of Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, perform another round of quality control and to weed out and boards that have any flaws or imperfections after milling.
After milling, the wood floors go to our shop for pre-finishing and for any other custom surface treatments required.
COMPANY PROFILE:
Atlantis Rail manufactures strong and durable cable railing, glass panels, vertical balusters, vertical cable and ADA handicap access rails. Their products give professional results but can be installed by the do-it-yourself-er.
PRODUCT PROFILE:
Stainless Steel Cable Railing
Stainless steel railing systems are a very affordable choice. This type of railing is favored in areas where view of the landscape or ocean would be impaired by other types of railings. Wood railings with spindles, for example, can obstruct views where as cables can nearly disappear. Glass railing provide a similar function however cable railings are replacing glass panel railings due to their lower maintenance and reduced sun glare. Cable railings were initially favored for contemporary architecture however they have become popular on all types of homes due to the variety of cable rail post styles now available.
Janka Hardness:
1220 (what’s this?)
Country of Origin: Brazil
About Andiroba:
Andiroba is almost thirty-six percent harder than cedar, is just under one percent softer than either movingui or heart pine, it is roughly ninety-four percent as hard as red oak, roughly eighty-four percent as hard as hard maple, and is about two thirds as hard as either hickory or pecan.
Andiroba is a tropical wood from the Amazon Rain Forest and from Central and South America and the Carribean with a texture similar to true mahogany. It has a straight and sometimes interlocked grain and is medium to somewhat coarse in texture.
The sapwood of andiroba is pink when freshly cut but quickly turns to a pale grayish-brown after exposure. The reddish-brown heartwood varies in shade from medium to dark, adding a cozy and warming feeling to any room. Andiroba is also rated as both very easy to work with and durable, with marked resistance to insects and decay ensuring the long lasting enjoyment of an Andiroba floor.
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