Modern furniture tends not to have the same fine grained wood as antiques, because the wood is simply not as old. This leads purists to reclaimed wood, such as the virgin Cypress and Longleaf pine offered by Krantz Recovered Woods. Krantz cypress comes from riverbeds where logs were floated downstream, and sometimes got waterlogged and sank. Since recovery was infeasible and old-growth wood was then plentiful, the wood lay underwater, forgotten. With modern concerns ranging from environmental to economic, companies like Krantz find it worthwhile to salvage these old logs for today's use. [GT]
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