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….

The Local Public House: River-Recovered Heart Cypress Bar Tops make an Impression 11

The Local Public House: River-Recovered Heart Cypress Bar Tops make an Impression

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Talk about adaptive re-use!  When San Antonio, Florida chef Curtis Beebe and his wife, Rebecca, purchased the old San Ann Market with their sights set on opening a fresh, new eatery they really went all out.  What emerged is The Local Public…
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If You Guessed Bok Tower Gardens, You Were Correct!

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Remember when we asked you to guess what our latest “gentle giant” was being transformed into? Hint: “her new home will be at a National Historic Landmark”. If you guessed Bok Tower Gardens, you were correct! Bok Tower Gardens…
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Pecky Cypress Pairs Perfectly with Distinct Wines

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Hurray for Sarah and Chris Aschliman who have just opened the long anticipated Island Grove Winery Tasting House on state road 301 in beautiful Island Grove, Florida on the shores of Orange and Lochloosa lakes!  For several years, Island Grove…
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Take a Look at this Beautiful Heart Cypress

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This River-Recovered® Heart Cypress Select trim is being milled and packaged for a new children's interpretive center and outdoor demonstration kitchen at Bok Tower Gardens. Goodwin is providing siding and trim for both buildings, which were…
Naples Botanical Garden Time-Lapse Video

Naples Botanical Garden Time-Lapse Video

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Those of your following the Naples Botanical Garden Chabraja Visitor Center project may find this time-lapse video of its construction to be very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U_xTvPynsk Goodwin sawed and precisely milled…