Commercial Forest Products, a hardwood flooring mill and manufacturer, gives you an insiders tour of their manufacturing process. See the steps that hardwood lumber goes through to become hardwood flooring. 1. Hardwood lumber is ripped on the Mereen Johnson optimized rip-saw 2. Oak lumber rips are prepared for the moulder 3. Flooring blanks are fed onto the automated in-feed table 4. Weinig moulder knives cut the tongue and groove profile 5. Moulder operator checks the hardwood flooring profile 6. Rift & Quartered Red Oak flooring is stacked in large bundles, ready to package. Commercial Forest Products is a United States hardwood flooring manufacturer specializing in long length historical reproduction red oak flooring. In this video, the company makes Craftsman-style 2" face rift & quartered Red Oak flooring in long lengths. The style and appearance matches the old-growth oak strip flooring that was installed in hundreds of thousands of Craftsman-style homes in the US from 1900-1960.

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