7. How do you select the woods
for your furniture?
The National Hardwood Lumber
Association establishes uniform rules for grading hardwoods,
including a requirement that a given percentage of a board be
usable if cut into pieces of a certain minimum width and length.
The higher the grade, the higher the usable percentage must be
and the larger the size of the cuttings.
The top two grades are
usually combined and sold as Firsts and Seconds (FAS) or they
may be combined with the next lower grade,
Select, and marketed as “Select and Better”. It is
not unusual for the highest grades of lumber to be as much as
three times as expensive as the lowest. At McKinnon, we only
purchase
FAS. This ensures that we are making your furniture using the
best grade of materials available.
Working from this high quality
material, our craftspeople select
the wood for each piece of furniture, carefully trying to match
color and grain. Because we make our furniture to order and
we don’t inventory components, the wood for each piece is
hand selected for that piece.
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