Crosscut Hardwoods offers a full line of Domestic, Exotic and Figured Hardwoods. If you are in a time crunch we have Pre-milled Hardwood & softwood lumber on hand. If you are building custom furniture, cabinetry, or working on a boat we have the right woods for you too.  A lot of our customers have invested in woodworking tools and clamps over the years and are only interested in saving money on our rough hardwood.

Now stocking 1/8" thick hardwood lumber in Cherry, Maple, Sapele and Walnut.
​1/4" thick hardwood lumber in these species Now at the Portland Location!

Pre-milled Hardwood

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Dimensional

Rough or Surfaced Hardwood

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Species

Pre-milled Beautiful Fir

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Clear Vertical Grain Douglas Fir

The basics of talking about Hardwood 

Talk the Talk
4/4 - spoken you would say Four Quarters. 
5/4 - spoken you would say Five Quarters. 
6/4 - spoken you would say Six Quarters. 
8/4 - spoken you would say Eight Quarters. 
12/4 - spoken you would say Twelve Quarters. 
16/4 - spoken you would say Sixteen Quarters. 
Milling Lingo
Hit and Missed - means the planer removed the high spots off of the board but left the low spots.

Surfaced and Straight line or S3S - means the board was planed down on both faces and 1 edge has been ripped. 

Lumber Thickness at different stages of milling

4/4 - Full Rough = 1" thick
4/4 - Hit and Missed Planed = 15/16" thick
4/4 - Surfaced and Straight lined = 13/16" thick
5/4 - Full Rough = 1-1/4" thick
5/4 - Hit and Missed Planed = 1-3/16" thick
5/4 - Surfaced and Straight lined = 1-1/18" thick
6/4 - Full Rough = 1-1/2" thick
6/4 - Hit and Missed Planed = 1-7/16" thick
6/4 - Surfaced and Straight lined = 1-5/16" thick
8/4 - Full Rough = 2" thick
8/4 - Hit and Missed Planed = 1-15/16" thick
8/4 - Surfaced and Straight lined = 1-3/4" thick
12/4 - Full Rough = 3"
12/4 - Hit and Missed Planed = 2-15/16" thick
16/4 - Full Rough = 4"