by Keevin Geller | Nov 12, 2025 | Specialty Lumber
Understanding Rough Lumber We sell a lot of rough lumber, both hardwoods and softwoods, at Barney & Carey, and customers ask a lot of questions about it. As a rule of thumb, hardwoods are best kiln dried, as are finish softwoods used for trim, furniture, and...
by Keevin Geller | May 17, 2025 | Live Edge Lumber, Specialty Lumber, Woodworking
When our website manager asked me to write about this topic, I was very happy to do it! The question of which type of store is better is not an easy one to answer, nor is one type the clear-cut winner. Over the years, I have had plenty of experience with both...
by Keevin Geller | Jan 28, 2025 | furniture restoration, Specialty Lumber
While our experts do a lot of furniture restoration, we rarely get to work on a piece that is almost 150 years old! We were recently entrusted by the Archives Coordinator of the City of Quincy’s Thomas Crane Library to restore a table that was built at the same...
by Keevin Geller | Dec 16, 2024 | Custom Moulding, Specialty Lumber
Over the decades, I have found the one major thing that distinguishes exceptional houses from the plain and ordinary: the moldings. When I first started remodeling and building in the early 1970’s, door and window casings were either clamshell (ranch) or...
by Keevin Geller | Sep 23, 2024 | Specialty Lumber
Saturday 9/28 | 8am–2pm | All Slabs and Everything Else! That’s right, 30% off EVERYTHING we have in stock! Since I bought the company in 1978, we have never had a sale ever! I never had sales because I never liked them. I felt that they were unfair to customers...
by Keevin Geller | Jul 22, 2024 | Specialty Lumber
A “boule” (I thought you’d never ask!) is a whole butt – or base – log that has been sawn into boards or slabs, and stacked sequentially in the sequence they were cut. A few mills will sell them like this, rather than sawing the logs in...
