Overview
The tagline across the top of Blue Ridge Fine Wood's shop page is "Everything That Grows In Our Forests," and the inventory reads like an honest accounting of exactly that. This is a lumber operation in Greenwood, just over the mountain from Crozet, and what it sells is the wood itself: boards stacked and priced by the board foot, live edge slabs still carrying the shape of the tree they came from, and the occasional pair of matching table tops waiting for someone to build around them.
There is no showroom pretense here, no finished-furniture gloss. The shop is organized the way a woodworker actually thinks, by species. Each one gets a short, plainspoken description of its color, its grain, how it behaves under a plane and a can of stain, and what it tends to become. If you have ever stood in a lumberyard trying to remember whether hickory is the hard one or the difficult one to work, this is the reference you wish you had in your pocket.
What they sell
The list runs long and local: ash, basswood, cherry, hickory, maple, locust, osage orange, paulownia, pine, poplar, red oak, white oak, sassafras, sycamore, walnut, and gum. These are the trees of the central Virginia hardwood forest, and the descriptions treat each with the specificity of someone who has milled a lot of it.
Cherry runs reddish brown to deep gold, fine-grained, and shows up here as both boards and live edge slabs, with some slabs called out as good candidates for a mantle piece. Walnut, that light-to-chocolate brown with dark streaks and a natural luster, is available as live edge slabs the shop describes as great for tables or mantles. Sycamore, white to reddish brown and famously fine-textured, occasionally turns up as rare live edge slabs; quartersawn, it shows the freckled ray-fleck figure that makes people fall for it. Gum gets an honest pitch as a great substitute for walnut when stained.
Then there are the working woods with clear jobs. Ash makes good flooring and millwork. Hickory is hard, a little stubborn to work, and makes great tool handles and flooring. Maple goes to flooring, workbenches, and specialty pieces. Poplar is described frankly as a utility wood, good for furniture frames and crates, though it can be stained to resemble something more expensive. Basswood, soft and straight-grained, is the one the shop singles out as great for carving and woodturning as well as musical instruments, and it comes with two matching table tops and a dozen boards on hand.
How pricing works
Prices are posted right alongside the species, which is refreshingly rare. Boards start around a dollar per board foot for ash. Cherry runs roughly $19 for boards, with slabs starting near $130. Sycamore slabs start at $47, basswood at $136, maple at $175, and walnut at $220 for slabs and $50 for boards, with gum live edge slabs starting at $223. Several species list specific stock, like the cherry boards described at about an inch thick and four to seven inches wide, so you have a sense of what is actually in the pile rather than a generic catalog promise.
Every species entry also links out to the Wood Database, the standard online reference for grain, workability, and finishing behavior, which tells you something about the temperament of the place: it would rather point you to good information than oversell.
Before you go
Blue Ridge Fine Wood is at 600 Greenwood Hollow, Greenwood, VA 22943. Because inventory here is the actual tree, quantities shift as slabs and boards get claimed. The site notes matching table tops and boards in specific counts, and slabs described as rare, which is a good reason to call ahead rather than assume a particular species is waiting. The shop invites exactly that, with a plain "Call Us Now!" and the number posted large: (540) 456-8899.
You can browse the full species list, with descriptions and current pricing, on the Blue Ridge Fine Wood shop page. For anyone in the Crozet area planning a table, a mantle, a run of trim, or a first turning project, it is a short drive to a yard that will tell you, in plain language, what each board is and what it wants to be.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Blue Ridge Fine Wood?
Blue Ridge Fine Wood is located at 600 Greenwood Hollow, Greenwood, VA 22943, USA, in Crozet, Virginia.
How do I contact Blue Ridge Fine Wood?
You can call (540) 456-8899 or visit https://mi3587.wixsite.com/blue-ridge-fine-wood/shop. Hours and current information are most reliable directly from the business.
What kind of business is Blue Ridge Fine Wood?
Blue Ridge Fine Wood is categorized as trades & home services in our Crozet directory. See the description and quick facts above for what makes this listing distinctive.
Sources: mi3587.wixsite.com