Sinker & Longleaf Pine Lumber
Welcome to Bruner Lumber Company, where we salvage and revive some of the finest, most historic wood in the American South. From rare river-recovered logs to legendary heart pine, our premium selection offers unmatched durability and a unique aesthetic for your next project.
Whether you are matching historic architecture or looking for an eye-catching feature for a modern build, we provide custom cuts of the highest-quality pine lumber. Explore our varieties below or contact us today for pricing and availability.
Premium Pine Varieties We Offer
Sinker Pine
Preserved for over a century beneath river mud, our Sinker Pine features distinct mineral stains and tighter rings than modern timber.
Best Used For: Flooring, interior paneling, feature walls, and custom furniture.
Long Leaf Pine
Known historically as the "King's Wood," Longleaf Pine is legendary for its structural strength, rich amber hues, and deep heritage.
Best Used For: Heavy-duty flooring, structural beams, and historic restoration.
Curly Sinker Pine
An incredibly rare variation of Sinker Pine featuring a natural, wavy "figured" grain pattern that dramatically shifts and reflects light.
Best Used For: High-end musical instruments, fine cabinetry, and luxury accents.
The History and Heritage of Our Pine<
River Recovered Sinker Pine: Lost and Found
At one time, Longleaf Pine forests covered nearly 90 million acres of the Southeastern U.S., containing massive trees that had been growing for hundreds of years. Today, those virgin forests and the giants they contained are gone.
Logging depleted those forests, but while those logs were being harvested and transported down the waterways of Northwest Florida and Southern Alabama in the 19th and early 20th centuries, some sank to the bottom and were lost.
That’s where we come in. We are specialists at finding River Reclaimed Pine, and we travel those waterways in search of the prized “sinkers” that have remained submerged for up to 100 years.
River Reclaimed Sinker Pine is a fantastic, dense hardwood. After resting in the cool water and mud of southern rivers, the Sinker Pine logs absorb surrounding minerals, taking on a stunning variety of beautiful, unique hues. It is just as suited for historic restoration as it is for new construction, providing our customers with a gorgeous character that can only come from true antique wood.
Looking for something even scarcer? We are always on the lookout for the fantastic Curly Sinker Pine. Although quite rare, we occasionally find them.
Amazing Longleaf Pine
The strength, durability, and usefulness of Longleaf Pine lumber is legendary. In fact, it was declared the “King’s Wood” for shipbuilding when America was first colonized, and famed botanist John Gould Curtis considered the Longleaf Pine to be the “pride of the south.”
It’s said that Longleaf Heart Pine lumber once framed four of every five houses in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. It floored Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation, and buttressed the keel of the USS Constitution (“Old Ironsides”).
Longleaf Pine played a key role in the growth and development of the early U.S. economy. Not only was it prized domestically, but it was in great demand across Europe. Along with being used for flooring, joists, and paneling for homes, it provided timber for warehouses, railroad cars, bridges, and wharves. It was so admired that it was frequently featured in Victorian luxury hotels and palaces.
The Incredible Versatility of Longleaf Pine
In 1928, botanist Roland Harper described the Longleaf Pine as a tree with “probably more uses than any other tree in North America if not in the whole world…” He may have been right.
Longleaf Pine is often referred to by several historic names, such as
Antique Pine
Heart Pine
Pitch Pine
Georgia Pine
Longstraw / Longneedle Pine
The long needles of the Longleaf Pine—which can grow up to 18 inches long—have been used since ancient times for coiled basket making and support a multi-million dollar wholesale industry for garden mulch today.
Historically, the tree's resin was an important source of "naval stores" (turpentine, rosin, pitch, and tar) for the Royal Navy in the late 1700s. Longleaf Pine resin eventually found its way into paints, soaps, weatherproofing products, shoe polish, medicines, and the pine rosin used by baseball players and ballerinas today.
Longleaf Pine lumber is not only a rich part of American history, but a beautiful, durable, and extremely versatile wood. Its range of applications is nearly endless, with our customers frequently using it for premium wood flooring, ceilings, structural beams, trim, and interior & exterior paneling.
Beautiful and Rare Curly Sinker Pine
Curly Sinker Pine is a variety of Sinker Pine that happens to feature a very distinctive “figure” in the grain pattern of the wood. Wood grain can be figured in many different ways, but as the name suggests, the grain of these particular logs looks distinctly wavy and "curly."
There is no way to know if we have a Curly Sinker Pine log in our hands until we actually cut it open at the sawmill.
One of the things that makes a rare Curly Sinker Pine so desirable is the unique way the grain reflects light. Because the fiber walls are curved sharply, they act as three-dimensional reflecting surfaces. Any changes in your viewing angle or light direction make the wave patterns seem to shift across the surface. This produces a spectacular, shimmering effect on smooth surfaces and dramatically enhances the appearance of the finished wood.
PLEASE NOTE: Curly figuring in Sinker Pine is highly sought after, very rare, and difficult to come by. If you are interested in this specific type of lumber for a premium project, let us know, and we will do everything we can to assist you.
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Thank You From Bruner Lumber Company Inc!
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