SINKER TREASURES - RIVER RECOVERED LUMBER

Welcome to Sinker Treasures River Recovered Lumber. We offer the most diverse selection of sinker cypress lumber in Southeast America. Sinker cypress lumber is also known as deadhead cypress, river reclaimed cypress, river recovered cypress, old growth cypress, virgin cypress, and more. We like to think of sinker cypress as the eco-friendly, green building lumber of choice.

Using rediscovered wood helps preserve our forests by utilizing timber harvested hundreds of years ago while also providing a higher quality lumber. This old virgin cypress timber has very tight growth rings, making it denser while increasing stability and durability. This quality of lumber is no longer available in our growing forest today.

Our sinker cypress logs were cut from the virgin forest in the 1800s and was over 600 years old when they were hand cut by ax. Since the day the sinker log sank while floating to the saw mill, our product has been aging in the river bottoms completely preserved. Sinker logs are now recovered from the rivers and sawn into lumber for historic restoration and new construction.

Weight of Sinker Cypress is approximately 5lbs per board foot.

Prices start at $2.50 per bft.

We have relationships with Sinker Cypress Mills along the Southern Coast which will enable us to provide the most availability and lower shipping cost.

“Virgin timber grown and preserved for centuries”