Touching every piece of wood makes us different; having members of the Amish community cut it makes all the difference in the world to us.
What all that hands-on activity means to you is quality. We have a 20-year relationship with the Amish experts near our mill. They know what we’re after. We get high-end, quality cuts instead of garbage.
There, we said it. Garbage. If you don’t really care how long your finished project will last or how much maintenance it will require, you know where to go. If you want a quality wood exterior or interior project that doesn’t warp or bleed, we can help.
The Amish mill only has six or seven people working at it. They handle, cut and sticker every piece of wood for us, just like we do on our end. In our industry we call that handling every stick by hand.
We order the sizes we want based on our inventory and customers’ custom orders, and process the raw material in lumber form. This type of TLC is rare — and so is our wood. Our customers are not the ones peering down the length of a board in a big-box store, tossing it aside and grabbing another one. If you can’t afford that time, frustration and risk, we’d like to talk to you.
Most of the time our customers are wrapping a dream home or cabin with our gorgeous Fat Boy or half-log that looks like a full-log cabin. Others are creating a man cave with a special touch of tongue-and-groove paneling. Some even go for the WOW factor and use our products on their interior walls, ceilings, staircases and railings.
The starting product has to be right. If it’s not, no matter how it’s dried or milled, the end product won’t be right. We bring quality wood up another level because of the way our Amish partners choose and cut it, and the way we dry and mill it.
We pay a lot of attention to the details. Mother Nature makes it unique. There’s great character we want to leave in there. We don’t mill-run anything unless a customer requests it. We do a lot of defecting that other places would leave in.
We don’t want it to look like vinyl or plastic. We want it to look like unique, quality wood. We want you to have wood as it should be, and so do our Amish friends.