Ludo's Thick & Thin Lumber
Stacked timber awaiting milling at Ludo's sawmill
Est. 1987 · Lafayette, New Jersey

The grain
remembers
the tree.

A working sawmill specializing in custom-cut wide plank, rough-sawn boards, live-edge slabs and beams.

Black WalnutWhite OakCherryHard MapleAshSycamoreHickoryRed OakCedarPine
Black WalnutWhite OakCherryHard MapleAshSycamoreHickoryRed OakCedarPine
Volume I · The Mill

Specializing in custom cut wide plank rough-sawn boards and beams.

Bring us a single tree from your back lot or five hundred logs from a job site — the saw doesn’t mind. We mill slabs up to six feet across and twenty feet long, dimensional lumber and beams up to thirty.

Walnut is our specialty, but every local species comes through our yard. Air-dried, kiln-finished, edged or live — milled the way you need it, quoted in plain English.

Services

What we do.

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Custom Milling
01 / 09

Custom Milling

Deliver your timber and we'll mill it to your spec. Slabs up to 6′ in diameter and 20′ long. Dimensional lumber and beams up to 30′. One tree or five hundred.

Wood Slabs
02 / 09

Wood Slabs

Large kiln-dried wood slabs in every local species. Walnut is our specialty. Wholesale fresh-milled slabs available in quantity.

Wide Plank Boards & Beams
03 / 09

Wide Plank Boards & Beams

Rough sawn wide plank flooring stock and structural beams cut to length, on order, in the species you need.

Adirondack Siding
04 / 09

Adirondack Siding

Softwood siding milled for homes, cabins and outbuildings — the rustic clad that ages into the landscape.

Trailer Decking & Sideboards
05 / 09

Trailer Decking & Sideboards

Decking and sideboards milled to your trailer's exact dimensions. Hardwood when you need it to last.

Custom Wedges
06 / 09

Custom Wedges

Standard sizes from 2×3×12″ to 3×3.5×14″. Hard or soft wood. Custom specs welcome. Expedited orders arranged.

A Closer Look

Walnut, by the slab.

Eastern black walnut is the wood we go back to — chocolate heart, blonde sap, quiet figure that turns dramatic under finish. We carry it in fresh-cut wholesale lots and in finished kiln-dried slabs ready for the bench.

6′
Max slab dia.
20′
Slab length
30′
Beam length
Stacked walnut slabs
They cut a forty-inch walnut slab to my drawing — perfect. The kind of place you wish every trade still was.
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Tell us what you need

One tree, or five hundred. We’ll mill it.

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