Cool water perfectly preserves what are known as sinker logs, which lay on river bottoms for hundreds of years. These magnificent sinker cypress and sinker pine logs are considered to be buried treasure, because once recovered, they yield the richest patina of any wood.

Customers specify both sinker cypress and sinker pine for both commercial and residential projects. Sinker cypress is perfect for siding and paneling, while sinker pine can be milled into beautiful flooring and stairparts.

The video below illustrates how sinker logs made their way down to the river bottom centuries ago:

“The economical way to transport heart pine and cypress logs was to fashion them into crude rafts and float them to sawmills along southern rivers. Sometimes they extended hundreds of yards long. As luck would have it, these rafts would sometimes break apart. The logs would slip away down to the river bottom where they were perfectly preserved from oxygen and light by the cool water.”

Take a look at some of our projects using sinker cypress logs….

Dreaming of Sinker Cypress?

Dreaming of Sinker Cypress?

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Take a look at this absolutely beautiful sinker cypress headboard and foot board.  It was handcrafted by our good friend and partner Dan Petersen of Heritage Wood Finish Company.  Dan used Goodwin’s River-Recovered® Heart Cypress (a.k.a.…
Heart Cypress Leaves an Impression in Beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina Home

River-Recovered Heart Cypress Leaves an Impression in Beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina Home

Once home to massive, thousand-year-old bald cypress trees, Beaufort, South Carolina is known for its history and charm.  People from around the country are choosing to re-locate to Beaufort, and once you see this gorgeous home, you will understand…
The Many Faces of Sinker Cypress

The Many Faces of Sinker Cypress

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Sinker cypress is a gorgeous, versatile antique wood that can be custom crafted into paneling, ceilings, walls, shelves, fireplace mantles, bar tops, tables, desk tops and just about anything else you can imagine. The density of the grain and…
Curly Heart Pine

Curly Heart Pine

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As Rare as It is Beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtRvwnmumU0 Curly heart pine is a burled grain found in some longleaf heart pine trees. Curly is typically identified in only one log out of several hundred that are retrieved from…
Heart Cypress Feature Wall Adds Beauty and “Grace” to Non-Profit Reception Area

Heart Cypress Feature Wall

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Heart Cypress Feature Wall Adds Beauty and “Grace” to Non-Profit Reception Area Grace Place, a non-profit organization in Naples, Florida that helps children and families, now has a gorgeous River-Recovered® Heart Cypress feature wall…
Heart Cypress – Perfect for Patios, Too!

Heart Cypress – Perfect for Patios, Too!

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We met our friend Jason Owen of Trimark Properties when we worked with them on the NIMBUS building feature wall earlier in the year.  Jason recently installed a River-Recovered® Heart Cypress Character ceiling on the porch of a client’s…