Our wood store, Great Spirit Hardwoods, offers hardwood lumber, live edge slabs, custom table tops and machining services to wood workers, cabinetmakers and design professionals in the Chicago suburbs.
We offer quality hardwoods, sold by the board foot, at un-matched pricing and can provide you with hardwood that you can depend to increase your yield and profit margin on that next woodworking project.
Introducing Great Spirit Hardwoods | Dependable quality hardwood lumber at fair price points in the Chicago area... Finally.
As furniture makers and designers with years of experience in wood working, we came to the conclusion that there was a void when it came to a hardwood source in the greater Chicago area that offered fair pricing and dependable quality in kiln dried, select and better hardwood lumber. We have experience in years past with twisted, "wet" and warped boards, lumber that is excessively surfaced to allow zero room for error and of course price gouging on hardwoods that shouldn't cost a fortune. To counter the hardwood lumber quality and pricing issues in the Chicago area, we have developed national sources of hardwood lumber that are priced fairly and is of the highest quality. Our buying power through our wood store and furniture making business has allowed us to share savings with local crafts persons, wood workers cabinet makers and fellow furniture makers. We are a small Mom and Pop operation, but we can deliver quality at a fair price point from a handful of pen blanks, to a small book-matched set for a table top to hundreds of board feet, priced at wholesale pricing through our "special order" hardwood service.
A bit about our hardwood lumber, rescued slabs and our custom table tops: Our hardwood lumber, custom table tops and slabs in Cherry, African Mahogany, Sapele, Walnut, Jatoba, Hickory, Maple and other species are guaranteed to make your next woodworking project more profitable through both our fair pricing and quality of materials. We stock only the finest hardwoods, often hand selected and always sorted for grain and color quality and consistency. We specialize in Black Walnut that is taken and carefully kiln dried from large storm downed and fallen trees which provides wide boards of superior grain, texture and color. Additionally, our Walnut is never steamed (a practice used to turn the white sapwood of very small trees Khaki brown) and exhibits the range of hues that is natural in Walnut as opposed to the drab and muted colors in steamed Walnut. We offer hardwood lumber, custom table tops and blanks in Walnut, Cherry, Ash, Maple, African Mahogany, Sapele, Hickory, Honey Locust and in other quality local and exotic hardwoods.
Thicknessing options, machining, wide belt sanding to make your job or hobby easier: Our hardwoods offer our customers options instead of limitations in that most of our hardwoods are rough sawn with some being skip planed but are always over sized, thickness wise, which allows you to "work" without the worry of wasting a valuable board. Our hardwoods are flat enough to joint and surface with room to spare in whatever nominal thickness is relevant. That said, we also offer jointing of boards to 16", edge jointing, surfacing to 37" and true finish sanding via our finely tuned wide belt sander. Our solid hardwood table tops and live edge slabs are available sanded, finished or including a base. Our custom table tops are crafted using select wide boards, have meticulous glue joints, are always machine flat and are wide belt sanded to a smooth yet open scratch pattern that will make your finishing job a breeze. We will also make furniture parts such as legs, panels and aprons that you can trust to be flat, square and true even after finish sanding which will save hours of nightmare random orbital sanding. Yes, we have been there!
