Partner Highlight: Woodruff Timber

We are proud to offer luxury tented cabin kits that use the highest quality, most locally sourced materials possible. You can rest assured that your Cedar Bound unit was designed and built with “keep-it-local” as a core value. Because we source most of our materials locally, we get to know our suppliers personally. This gives us the opportunity to introduce them to you!

Meet Bob Merrill, of Woodruff Timber. Bob's been with Woodruff for the last 13 years, but Woodruff has been in operation in Duluth since 1874! We proudly source all of the Douglas Fir timbers found in our tented cabins from Woodruff. We caught up with Bob to ask him a few quick questions...
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗳𝗳?
Hardwoods, primarily. Fir, Cedar and Pine.
𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀, 𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆?
Any project, any size, for anyone.
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀𝗲?
Cherry. The color, when finished, gets darker. It has great properties.

For you creative types that are looking for a local source for your DIY woodworking project, Woodruff Timber is located at:

360 Garfield Avenue

Duluth, MN

55802