With another custom brush, we started with a Douglas Fir request. Harder to find than I thought it would. The older growth wood in the Pacific Northwest, can be found in reclaimed barns but most of those dealers have a zillion board feet. Our sizes are too small for their operations.
We were lucky to find a reclaiming company in Quakertown, PA that has reclaimed pine beams.
We got one that will not only provide these pieces, but will go into a limited addition set of brushes that we will be making which will be numbered.
We are very keen to find out what is on the inside.
Here are the pictures of the pine beam. by counting the rings, we came up with an approximate
start date for the tree about 1622. Too cool.
We are also getting an old growth mahogany piece that was a banister. It was rescued from a house demolition. Those will also be numbered brushes.
With another custom brush, we started with a Douglas Fir request. Harder to find than I thought it would. The older growth wood in the Pacific Northwest, can be found in reclaimed barns but most of those dealers have a zillion board feet. Our sizes are too small for their operations.
We were lucky to find a reclaiming company in Quakertown, PA that has reclaimed pine beams. 
We got one that will not only provide these pieces, but will go into a limited addition set of brushes that we will be making which will be numbered.
We are also getting an old growth mahogany piece that was a banister. It was rescued from a house demolition. Those will also be numbered brushes.
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