Beautiful Unfinished Rift & Quarter Sawn Hickory Flooring

Offered By: Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring

Description: This auction item features 609 square feet of 3/4" solid unfinished Rift & Quarter Sawn hickory flooring!

About Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring: Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring (AMHF) is a fourth generation, family owned and operated business located just north of Pittsburgh in Emlenton, PA. They use FSC Certified lumber to create finely crafted hardwood flooring and specialize in Rift & Quarter Sawn flooring. AMHF is the original manufacturer of Live Sawn.

Rift & Quarter Sawn Lumber is created by cutting a log into quarters and sawing boards from each quarter from the inside out. The process of quarter sawing will create both quarter sawn and rift sawn boards. The way the log is cut determines the angle of the annual growth rings in relation to the face of the board. This dictates the look and dimensional stability of that board.

History of Rift & Quarter Sawn
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, quarter sawn was popular in flooring, furniture, and interior woodwork. The old timers used this lumber for its dimensional stability & beauty. The mills would cut the logs as radial sawn for 100% quarter sawn. This created a lot of waste and was very time-consuming.
After the World Wars in the first half of the 20th century demand was high for wood and mass production was needed. Sawmills began to cut plain sawn, or flat sawn, as this lumber was much faster cut and quicker to dry. The art of cutting & drying quarter sawn was almost lost.
History of Hickman Lumber and Quarter Sawn
Hickman Lumber began cutting some rift & quarter sawn again in the 1970s, but after 2 devastating fires in the 1980s, Hickman Lumber was rebuilt to specifically cut quarter sawn with one head rig feeding a 7' Filer and Stowell Slant ban-mill using a .125 kerf and two 48" West Plains horizontal resaw using .083 kerf
Nothing of this high-value log is wasted. The "waste" created in how we cut today is significantly less than the radial cutting of the old days, and this little "waste" is utilized in other ways. See Hickman Lumber sustainability page for more details.
In the 1980s and 1990s the rift and quarter sawn lumber was sold mainly to furniture manufacturers. The Japanese furniture market demanded premium rift as they liked the straight tight grains. Our quarter sawn lumber, with the heavy fleck, was sold to Stickley Furniture in New York.

Location: Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring, 501 Main Street, Emlenton, PA 16373

Website: http://www.hickmanwoods.com
Facebook: @hickmanwoods

Fine Print:
Valid for 609 square feet of 3/4" solid unfinished Rift & Quarter Sawn hickory flooring only. Must be picked up at Allegheny Mountain Hardwood Flooring. Must schedule pick up with Jessica or Zach before arriving. (724) 867-9441. Sales tax must be paid on the full retail value of the item/service, not the final bid price. No Cash/Credit back for unused portion. Promotional Value expires (1) year from date of purchase unless otherwise noted. No change given. Not valid with any other coupon/vouchers/promotions.