We are very selective when it comes to our lumber and for most of our work, we use solid hardwoods. More specifically, black walnut, cherry, and white oak. With a value for quality, we source most of our lumber from specific mills. For example, we like to get our walnut from a family-run sawmill in northern Pennsylvania where we will purchase the lumber and they will ship it to us. We also on occasion will mill our own lumber which will then be accompanied with a year or two of air-drying outside the shop before it can be worked. Whenever we build a piece of furniture, we will usually bring the wood in the shop weeks before we start working it so it can acclimatize to the environment. Since solid hardwoods move, it is our goal to minimize that movement as much as possible which is one of the reasons we have a dehumidifier so we are able to control the humidity of the shop to best fit the room where that piece of furniture will live.