Color: Pale Yellow to Reddish Brown.

Tree: A relatively small tree, reaching about 50ft in height and producing a trunk in diameter up to 18''.

Growth Region: Pacific Coast of North America.

Wood Description: Alder wood is almost white when cut but changes to a light tan or brown with a yellow or reddish tinge when exposed to the air. Heartwood is formed only in trees of advanced age and there is no visible boundary between heartwood and sapwood.

Color: Light cream to light brown.

Tree: Reaches heights of 70-80 feet with a trunk diameter of 24-36''. Boles are often straight and clear of branches for 30-50 feet.

Growth Region: Eastern USA and Canada.

Wood Description: The sapwood of ash is light brown while the heartwood is brown to grayish. Ash is normally straight grained, heavy, hard, strong, and stiff. It wears smooth with high shock resistance. Ash also splits easier and shrinks more than Maple, Cherry, and Oak.

Color: Consistent white color.

Tree: Reaches heights of 70-80 feet with a trunk diameter of 10"-12", sometimes to 30".

Growth Region: Eastern Canada , Eastern USA.

Wood Description: The wood of paper birch is lighter and less hard, less strong and less stiff than yellow birch. All birches have a fine, uniform texture. Of all the birches, paper birch machines the best. Paper birch seems to have a more consistent whiter color than yellow birch. Linton Cabinet Shop uses the paper birch for our white birch specifications.

Color: White sapwood and light reddish-brown heartwood.

Tree: Reaches heights of 70 feet with a trunk diameter of 24".

Growth Region: Primarily in Quebec and the northeastern United States.

Wood Description: The wood of yellow birch is heavy, hard and strong. All birches have a fine, uniform texture. Yellow birch has a white sapwood and light reddish-brown heartwood. Linton Cabinet Shop uses the heartwood from the yellow birch for our red birch specifications.

Color: Reddish brown with a golden luster.

Tree: Reaches heights of up to 100 feet, about 80 feet average, with a tall trunk of about 24'' in diameter.

Growth Region: Eastern USA, Eastern Canada.

Wood Description: The sapwood is light yellow to white and the heartwood is brownish with a green tinge which darkens upon exposure to a deep reddish brown with a golden luster. There is occasional pitch pockets and gum in the wood.

Color: White cream with brown streaks to tan.

Tree: A large tree with a massive trunk reaches heights of 160 feet with 6-7 feet diameters. Has a very long life - up to 350 years.

Growth Region: USA

Wood Description: The sapwood of hickory is white tinged with brown and the heartwood is pale reddish-brown. The wood is known for its strength and shock resistance. Hickory is difficult to machine. Linton Cabinet Shop uses a blend of both the sapwood and the heartwood in our products.

Color: Varies from pink to pale red-brown with dark pink variations.

Tree: Lyptus® represents a new concept in forest management. A premium-grade hardwood, Lyptus® is grown in South America on highly productive environmentally friendly plantations, interspersed with reintroduced indigenous trees to preserve native ecosystems. Wood is produced using proprietary technology in a sustainable and environmentally responsible manner. A natural hybrid of Eucalyptus grandis and Eucalyptus urophylla, Lyptus thrives in the warm climate of Brazil, permitting harvesting in just 14 to 16 years as opposed to 50 to 70 years in colder regions.

Growth Region: Brazil

Wood Description: Lyptus is a high-quality hardwood. Lyptus is used as an alternative to mahogany and has a more consistent grain pattern. The color ranges from an off white to light brown to an orange. Significant color range can be represented in product. Linton Cabinet Shop cannot guarantee color match for Lyptus.

Color: Heartwood is light pinkish brown, darkening to reddish-brown upon exposure. The sapwood is whitish or yellow.

Tree: The tree is reported to reach heights of 110 to 140 feet, with trunk diameters of up to 6 feet. The tree usually develops straight, well-formed boles that measure about 40 to 80 feet above strong buttresses that are reported to be up to 8 feet high.

Growth Region: Tropical West, Central and East Africa.

Wood Description: Texture is medium course; grain is straight to interlocked, producing a striped figured appearance. It is very difficult to get uniform color in Mahogany, therefore Linton Cabinet Shop will NOT guarantee color match.

Color: Cream white to reddish brown.

Tree: Also called Hard Rock Maple or Sugar Maple. Produces sweet sap used to make maple syrup. Matures at heights of 90-120 feet with a trunk 24-36''.

Growth Region: Northeastern USA & Canada.

Wood Description: The wood of sugar maple is known as hard maple. Hard maple has a fine, uniform texture; it's heavy, strong, stiff, hard and resistant to shock. Linton Cabinet Shop uses hard maple when not specified for all its translucent (stained) products due to its consistent color.

Color: Sapwood color is creamy white and the heartwood is light reddish-brown.

Tree: Matures at heights of 90 to 120 feet with a trunk diameter of 36-48".

Growth Region: Northeastern USA & Canada.

Wood Description: The wood of the silver maple or red maple is known as soft maple. This wood resembles hard maple but is not as heavy, hard, or strong. Soft maple has more color variation therefore Linton Cabinet Shop uses this material for its opaque (Painted) products.

Color: Light brown with a reddish tinge.

Tree: The most common hardwood in North America. The tree matures at about 70 feet in height and a trunk of 36''.

Growth Region: Eastern United States and Canada.

Wood Description: The sapwood of red oak is white to very light brown. Heartwood is reddish-brown. It has a coarse texture; it's heavy, straight-grained, hard, tough, very stiff and strong.

Quarter Sawn Red Oak

Color: Beige to creamy tan.

Tree: May reach 100 feet in height and have a trunk of 36'' in diameter.

Growth Region: Eastern United States and Canada.

Wood Description: The sapwood of white oak is white to very light brown. Heartwood is light to dark brown. It has a coarse texture; it's heavy, straight-grained, hard, tough, very stiff and strong. Quarter sawn white oak lumber has dramatic medullar figured called fake/tiger oak.

Quarter Sawn White Oak

Color: Light brown to white, sometimes with a reddish and yellow tinge, turning darker with exposure.

Tree: The eastern white pine has the distinction of being the tallest tree in eastern North America. May reach 230 feet in height and have a trunk of 3-5 feet.

Growth Region: Eastern United States and Canada.

Wood Description: The heartwood of eastern white pine is a light brown, sometimes with a reddish tinge, turning darker with exposure. The sapwood is white, tinged with yellow and has a uniform texture.

Eastern White Pine (Knotty)

Color: Grayish white sapwood with greenish brown heart.

Tree: A tall, stately tree. May reach 150 feet high with a trunk up to 10 feet and free of branches for up to 90 feet.

Growth Region: Eastern United States and Canada.

Wood Description: Poplar sapwood is white, sometimes with stripes. The heartwood is unusually tan but can range from greenish-brown to dark green, purple, black, blue and yellow. The wood is straight-grained, uniform in texture, and moderate to light weight. Linton Cabinet Shop does not recommend poplar for opaque (Painted) products, specifically doors and cabinet frames because of its instability due to environmental factors in our region.

Color: Light to dark brown or chocolate brown.

Tree: A moderate sized tree reaching about 100 feet and producing a trunk up to 60'' in diameter.

Growth Region: Mid and Eastern United States and Canada

Wood Description: The sapwood of walnut is nearly white, while the heartwood is light brown to dark chocolate brown, often with purplish cast and darker streaks. The wood is heavy, hard and stiff.

Occassionally we have requests to use lumber supplied by our clients. Material should be free of metal and other foreign objects. Client is responsible for any damage to tooling or machinery caused by foreign objects in the client supplied material. All client supplied material will need to comply with the specifications below:


4/4 MATERIAL:

• Rough material not less than 1.062"
• Plained material between .900" to .940"

5/4 MATERIAL

• Rough material not less than 1.25"
• Plained material between 1.125" to 1.165"