Rare Earth Hardwoods supplies rough-sawn, dimensional Brazilian hardwood lumber — cut to nominal size and left undressed — for timber framers, builders resawing their own stock, and structural applications where a mill-run finish is exactly what the job calls for.
This is the same dense, naturally durable inventory behind our S4S line — Ipê, Cumaru, Massaranduba, Tatajuba, Itaúba, and Angelim Pedra among them — supplied rough-sawn to nominal dimensions rather than surfaced four sides, including large timbers sized for timber-frame posts and beams.
Skipping the S4S surfacing pass keeps the cost per board foot down for buyers who plan to resaw, dress, or hand-hew the material themselves, and it's the standard choice for exposed structural timbers where a rougher, mill-sawn texture is part of the look.
As with the rest of our catalog, this line runs wholesale container volumes for distributors, job-lot orders for commercial timber framers and contractors, and smaller retail cuts for individual builders.
Sized for timber-frame posts and beams as well as standard dimensional lumber runs.
Rough-sawn to nominal dimension — no S4S pass, so you dress or resaw to your own final spec.
Skipping surfacing keeps this line more economical than our S4S lumber for the same species.
Container-load wholesale orders, commercial job lots, and smaller retail cuts, all from the same inventory.
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Rare Earth Hardwoods has supplied Brazilian hardwood lumber since 1984, sourced through our own Zero Impact Brazil facility and harvested sustainably and ethically, in compliance with all applicable regulatory agencies. Rough or S4S, it's the same accountable supply chain behind it.
Rough dimensional lumber is cut to nominal size and left as-sawn, without the surfacing pass that makes S4S lumber flat, square, and ready to install. It costs less per board foot and is meant for buyers who will resaw, plane, or hand-finish it themselves.
Yes — rough dimensional stock is where we cut the larger timber sizes used for timber-frame posts and beams, in addition to standard dimensional lumber runs.
This line regularly includes Ipê, Cumaru, Massaranduba, Tatajuba, Itaúba, and Angelim Pedra, among other South American hardwoods, depending on current inventory and your project's size and load requirements.
Yes. We supply container-load wholesale orders for distributors, job-lot volumes for commercial timber framers and contractors, and smaller retail cuts for individual projects.
Tell us your species, dimensions, and volume — wholesale, commercial, or retail — and we'll put together a quote.
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