Wholesale Lumber Supplier of High Quality Wood Products

The J. Gibson McIlvain Company has been providing high quality wood products since 1798 and is a trusted and well known name in the wholesale lumber business.

Our global reach makes us a powerful distributor of both domestic and imported, exotic hardwood lumber such as  Teak,  Genuine Mahogany, and  Ipe. Our softwood  Douglas Fir timbers and  Western Red Cedar softwoods are of the finest quality to suit your exterior and/or timber framing projects.

We supply hardwood plywood in many popular species as well as  Marine Grade plywood in Okoume and Douglas Fir. J. Gibson McIlvain also offers hardwood moulding services with our extensive millwork catalog and custom profiles available upon request.

Our knowledgeable and experienced staff can help you determine the right product for your project and even suggest alternatives when budgets are tight and supply is low. With over 7 million board feet in stock and our own trucking fleet, we can deliver top quality materials just in time wherever your project is located.  We are the wholesale lumber experts.

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Featured Lumber Species

Utile/Sipo

Utile Quartersawn and Flat Sawn

Entandrophragma utile The names “Utile” and “Sipo” refer to the same species, but it seems as if the public has not yet decided on which name it prefers, as both names are used with equal frequency. Utile is an African species that is used as a cheaper alternative to Genuine Mahogany, [...] Read more »

Lumber Specials

Ipe Decking Priced to Move

Ipe Sided House

  The height of decking season often brings shortages of top quality Ipe decking.  We are prepared with year after a very successful buying season and we still have a very large stock in all the common sizes of Ipe decking. All our Ipe is top quality S4S and E4E decking.  It is ungrooved but can be grooved for use with hidden fastener systems at the time of your order. With this “over[...] Read more »

Paint Grade Material

Paint Grade Sapele

For most of us when you think of painting wood you think of Poplar.  This is probably the best species around for taking paint well with it’s good base color and close pores.  Very little if any priming is necessary and the paint flows smoothly across the surface.  Plus you just can’t[...] Read more »

Take a Tour of Our Millwork Operation

Moulder creating hardwood mouldings in our Millwork facility

The perfect moulding can complete a project and make just the right statement.  At the same time, a poor moulding can ruin many hours of work in very short order. With so much riding on it, we add a lot of quality control into the day to day millwor[...] Read more »