Dear Friends and Customers, As we leave 2015 behind us, our company would like to thank you for your continued patronage and support! As you know, we are a small business, and we pride ourselves on doing exceptional work that helps our local economy and contributes positively to the ecologies of the forests of California and …
This morning a load of historic lumber out of beautiful Saint Joseph’s Church in San Francisco is on a truck, making its way to us! The current church building was erected in 1906. The wood is old and sturdy rough-cut, full-dimension 2x material, and as far as we can tell is 108 years old. …
Basically brined in salt water, these beams are heavy and still carry some of the ocean’s bottom on their skins. Shells, sand, spots where decayed chain rotted away, colors of iron and bits of rocks defiantly cling to their sides. This, my friends, spells love. Running my hands along the rough surface, I could feel …
At Crossroads we often document the historical origin of our material. It can be a challenging task to get an accurate history about structures and businesses that have been dismantled. We recently had an order for one of our large timbers from furniture maker William Stranger. William was thrilled with the beauty of the wood and wanted to …
CRL recently supplied The Historic Pen Company with a sample pack of some of our most prestigious and legendary materials including Stanford Gym, San Quentin Prison Hospital, Warner Brothers Studio, The San Francisco Presidio, Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Factory, and exotic Borneo Ironwood from monsoon blow-down. Pens are limited editions made from wood or timbers that were part of a historic …
A stroll through the Crossroads Recycled Lumber yard with a well-informed salesperson is a lesson in California state history. From early California adobe homes, to rural sawmills, to glamorous Hollywood movie studios, our lumber represents the people of the Golden State and the stories of their lives. With Pacific Northwest Timbers in its 3rd …
Here at the Crossroads Recycled Lumber yard we’ve salvaged millions of board feet of reclaimed lumber and timbers over the years. Every plank and beam was once part of a majestic tree, felled with a chainsaw, or by hand with a crosscut saw depending on the era, and shaped by millhands, in forests and mills across North America. The Crossroads …
Learn about the salvage process from start to finish! This is an excellent, informative mini-documentary about the deconstruction process, following the disassembly of the Port of Oakland, CA. Thank you StopWaste.org, for all of the work you do to Stop Waste! Crossroads Recycled Lumber is featured from 3:25-5:33. “Our clients are pretty conscientious about where their material …
Quality Wood Named for its uniquely rich hue, Reclaimed Redwood is sought after for internal paneling projects to show off the deep varying shades of earthy red. Striking as it is inside, Redwood is also valued for external siding not only for it’s appearance, but also because it is rot-resistant. Most of our Redwood stock …
Origins Some of the most intriguing lumber we have in stock was never used in construction, and yet still considered salvage timbers. These beams are believed to have been loaded onto a Canadian ship in 1921 that wrecked off the Pacific Coast. In early 2010 as a beach near the wreck eroded, the shipwreck became …