It might seem to make sense to you to use a completely different species than you have before to build something you’ve built many times before. But it may not work. Unlike manufactured products, where a simple color or finish type simply means a different pigment, each wood … [Read more...]
Why You Should Place Your Next Architectural Plywood Order with Us
With our in-house millworks, J. Gibson McIlvain is truly a full-service lumber supplier. Do you know what that means for you, as our customer? Options, and plenty of them! When you combine that factor with our primary aim of quality, you have a winning combination! We can either … [Read more...]
Lumber Color Demystified: Putting Color Matching in Perspective, Part 3
Color-matching is far from an exact science, as you’ve probably gathered from Part 1 and Part 2 in this series. While density and grain come out on top, when it comes to influencing lumber color, environmental exposure comes in a close second. After that, we have to consider the … [Read more...]
Lumber Color Demystified: Putting Color Matching in Perspective, Part 2
In Part 1, we considered how grain is the most significant factor affecting lumber color, due to how light reflects off the wood, depending on its density. Grain and density can be affected by many factors, and it’s only the beginning: local climate and weathering come in after … [Read more...]
Lumber Color Demystified: Putting Color Matching in Perspective, Part 1
When you understand how color change varies from species to species as well as over time, you begin to realize that lumber color can be a pretty tricky subject. Even within a species and with freshly milled boards, though, there’s plenty of variety when it comes to color. As an … [Read more...]
