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Cedar lumber is one popular option due to its unique and delicate fragrance. It is a highly aromatic wood and is a natural repellent to moths, mildew, and mustiness. Cedar lumber is popularly used for furniture, such as chests and closets, because it keeps your clothes moth hole free! It is also used for cabinet …
We have many customers who share with us projects they’ve completed with short decking lengths. As you can see from the pic above, not only can you use hardwood decking for arbors, you can also use it for paneling. To me, the most impressive piece in this whole picture is the custom built cabinets made …
Butternut Lumber is one domestic hardwood that we offer here at AdvantageLumber.com Butternut Lumber has a Janka hardness of 490, which deems it a soft wood. This makes it a great wood for carving because it shows its beautiful color and grain pattern. Butternut heartwood is chestnut brown with darker areas, while its sapwood is …
Maybe it’s because I’m still infused with the holiday spirit, but I really feel that woodworking is a one-of-a-kind tradition that will never go away. Just look through our Hardwood Lumber 101 series and you’ll see that from religious manuscripts to stone age doors, hardwoods have been a critical part of the building of our …
Advantage Trim & Lumber Co. offers such superior domestic hardwood lumber. One great hardwood is American Black Walnut. Woodworkers have used American Black Walnut for centuries. Check out this sunken Great Lakes Treasure Ship that was found with over $100,000 worth of Black Walnut lumber aboard. American Black Walnut is often referred to as ‘gunwood’ …
AdvantageLumber.com is growing, again! We’re expanding our facilities and renovating our North Carolina facility. One example of our continued growth might not seem very impressive at first until you realize just how much it impacts our customers. What you see above is the start of a concrete pad installation in front of our state-of-the-art kiln. …
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