We here at Talarico Hardwoods are very concerned about conservation issues and we do stock many well managed hardwoods. We are CERTIFIED FOR FOREST STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL CHAIN OF CUSTODY. Ask for our FSC certified products. All our Spessart and Pfalz forest Oak logs are PEFC and comes out of Enduring/Protected forest culture areas. All our other European logs come from private lands and Estates. Our domestic logs come from private lands and urban areas. CALL FOR AVAILIBILITY AND PRICING ON ALL OF THE FOLLOWING ENGLISH & EUROPEAN LUMBER & VENEERS.

IRISH OAK BURR (BURL) This amazing brown Irish Oak Burr #1767 & 1768 came from the Shanes Castle in Antrim, Northern Ireland and is FSC certified. The castle stands on the northwest corner of the Lough Neagh. It was so big it had to be cut in half to move it and get it into a container to be shipped to our yard. It yielded small and large flitches and everything in between. It has beautiful burl figure with good color and was all cut to 10/4 thickness. It is on sticks drying now. This huge oak burr has plenty of history. If it could only tell the stories.
#1767 --- Click here or on images below to see ALL photos of 1767
#1768 --- Click here or on images below to see ALL photos of 1768

WITCH ELM BURR LOG #1835 Click on images below to see ALL photos of this log

Top Log Flitches

Curly English Sycamore - "Acer pseudolatanus" Highly figured, quartersawn & plainsawn fiddleback English sycamore "maple" veneer & lumber to 12/4. Musical instrument grades availible. These logs are hand picked for size & figure. (Click on photo to enlarge)
English Brown Oak - "Quercus robur" Quartersawn English brown oak veneers & solid lumber up to 10/4, including tight grained, old growth & pippy brown oak. These logs are hand picked for good color & texture. Brown Oak is caused by the beefsteak fungus, Fistulina hepatica, when it attacks European oaks and turns the wood brown. It grows in about 1 out of every 500 Quercus robar and Quercus petraea oak trees in England and France. The "brown oak" that results from it's growth in oaks has traditionally been the only sort of oak used in fine European furniture. (Click on photo to enlarge)
English Oak Burl Logs Solid flitch cut lumber with a burly natural edge cut from english oak burl logs, including 1/2-inch thick solid burl veneers. (Click on photos below to enlarge)
Curly English Walnut - "Juglans regia" Curly, blistered and highly figured English walnut flitches & crotches up to 6 feet wide and 17 feet long. 5,000 Bd ft of figured lumber was cut from this incredible tree. 4/4 To 10/4 thickness, most is bookmatched. Some of the highest figured walnut I've ever seen. Truly a log of a liftime. Click here to see some of the inventory. (Click on photos below to enlarge)
This incredible bathroom door was made for Sam's home with a book matched pair of boards from a limb from this Curly English Walnut log, along with, curly, quartered American Sycamore, and rift sawn Spessart oak. It was designed and built by Arnold d'Epagnier. Click here to see some of the inventory from this log.
English Estate White Oak - "Quercus robur" Huge, estate, English oak logs have been found and shipped here to be quartersawn. They yield 24 inch to 30 inch wide quartered and bookmatched lumber. These huge white oak logs are some of the very few left this size in the world. We find a few every year and bring them in. (Click on photos below to enlarge)
Circassian Walnut Burl - "Juglans regia" This log is highly figured with tight burr and quilt with beautiful color and was cut into 5/4 & 6/4 slabs with a natural burr edge and bookmatched. Slabs are from two to three feet wide & three feet to 9 feet long. This is a very special and rare log. (Click on photos to enlarge)
Old Growth French Brown Oak - "Quercus petraea" This parcel of logs was some of the best Brown Oak we have ever cut. They were rift & quartersawn. The growth rings are an incredible 30 to 60 rings per inch. Color is entirerly solid brown with very little sap wood. One log was curly as well. This is as good as Brown Oak gets. (Click on photo to enlarge)
Old Growth Scottish Oak - "Quercus robur" We found a few very large and tight grained logs in Scotland. They were Quartersawn and show very tight comb and highly figured flake figure. Very wide bookmatched boards are available. (Click on photos below to enlarge)
Old Growth German Oak - "Quercus petraea" The great American ecologist and writer Aldo Leopold, writing in the 1920s said that, "the "Spessart" bears the most magnificent oaks in the world. American cabinetmakers, when they want the last word in quality use Spessart oak." We are bringing in very large, old growth, German Oak veneer logs that are from 300 to 400 years old. These logs are from the "Spessart area, one of the best White oak forests in the world. These are managed forests and a limited number of trees are cut every year and offered for sale. We rift & quartered them into lumber. The color is light straw to light tan and clear. Some of these huge logs are up to 40 feet long with no defects and very tight grain. We cut some 12" to 16" wide, rift lumber from some of them. Very rare dimensions for sure. The rest were quartered for the figure. (Click on photos to enlarge)
VERY TIGHT GRAINED OLD GROWTH LOGS I HAVE BOUGHT AND CUSTOM CUT INTO 10/4 AND 12/4 RIFT AND QTRD, AIR DRYING IN GERMANY (Click on photos below to enlarge) 10-4 air drying 12-4 air drying
FUMED "SMOKED OAK" This quartered old growth spessart oak is fumed under pressure and darkens it all the way through the thickness. It can be milled and the color will remain through out. (Click on photo below to enlarge)
TIGHT GRAINED RIFT SPESSART OAK (Click on photo below to enlarge)
#1 TIGHT GRAINED SPESSART QUARTERED OAK (Click on photo below to enlarge)
VENEERS IN STOCK - Rift & Quartered Old Growth White Oak - Quartered Curly English Sycamore - Quartered American Sycamore - Curly English Walnut - 4000 year old European Bog Oak - English Oak Burr (sawn half inch thick)   (Click on photo to enlarge)
TURNING BLOCKS Highly figured curly & burly Silver Maple, green to air dried blocks from 10 lbs to 100 blocks. (Click on photo to enlarge)
AMBROSIA MAPLE The Ambrosia beetle causes this defect in soft maple lumber and the result is very interesting looking lumber. This lumber is hand picked for the best looking wormy patterns. (Click on photo to enlarge)

Talarico Hardwoods * 22 Hardwood Lane * Mohnton * PA 19540
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email: sam@talaricohardwoods.com