WE ARE IMPORTING FIGURED LOGS
& VENEER FROM ENGLAND & EUROPE.


These logs are hand picked, shipped to our yard, custom cut
and dried, and we have this beautiful wood in stock now.


Certified Sustainable Harvested woods

We here at Talarico Hardwoods are very concerned about conservation issues and we do stock many sustainable harvested hardwoods. First, We do not do any logging. We buy all our logs from reputable loggers and log merchants. All our Spessart and Pfalz forest Oak logs are PEFC certified and comes out of Enduring/Protected forest culture areas.

All of our other Europeans 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.


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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)



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
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#1 TIGHT GRAINED SPESSART QUARTERED OAK
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EUROPEAN BOG OAK LUMBER & VENEER

Rare, certified, 4000 year old European Bog Oak veneer, rift & quartersawn. These logs were buried in 40 to 60 feet of mud along the Rhine River 4000 years ago. When they are found, they are rift and quarter sliced into veneer and some is sawn into lumber. A limited supply is available and in stock now. (Click on photos 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)
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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
ph: 610-775-0400 * fax: 610-775-1456
email: sam@talaricohardwoods.com
or clint@talaricohardwoods.com