Siding that arrives finished, textured and ready to hang.
Exterior siding and cladding in Accoya® and domestic hardwoods. We mill the profile, cut the texture, and apply the finish under one roof in Rigby, Idaho, then ship it on our own trucks.
Three decisions make a siding job. The wood, the texture cut into it, and the finish over it. Most mills hand you one of the three and send you elsewhere for the rest. We do all three on the same board, in the same building, and the result is a wall where board four hundred matches board four.
Two ways to buy siding from us.
Accoya®, priced on the page
Acetylated radiata pine with a 50 year above-ground warranty from Accsys, four finishes, published prices by finish level, delivery by the mile. The fastest way to a number is the Accoya order builder.
Domestic hardwoods, quoted
Alder and white oak, textured and finished to the same standard, quoted per project because species, pattern, solid versus veneer and quantity each move the number. Interior paneling in these species is covered below.
Six surface treatments, in development now.
We are running the same board through six treatments on our texturing line to settle the first collection. These are working names and rendered previews, not a catalogue yet. The production patterns we ship today are listed under Species and Patterns below. Ask for the samples and tell us which direction you want; the names come after the samples.
Renderings. Working names. Hand-Hewn describes the look, not hand labour; every pattern is cut by machine so it repeats.
Tongue and groove, mitred corners, matched trim.
Our first exterior profile is a 1x6 tongue and groove, run vertical or horizontal. Exact finished dimensions, reveal, fastening schedule and the rainscreen detail are in the installation package we send with every sample set. Corner, window and soffit details are drawn to match the board, not bolted on afterward.
Species and Patterns
Two named species lines are currently in production:
| Line | Species | Patterns Available |
|---|---|---|
| Artisan Alder | Alder | Driftwood, Milled, Weathered |
| Artisan White Oak | White Oak | Driftwood, Milled, Weathered |
Each pattern reads differently depending on species. Driftwood pulls a coastal, wind-worn grain lift. Milled reads tighter and more architectural, closer to a saw-textured surface. Weathered pushes the deepest relief, closest to naturally aged exterior wood.
Accoya is priced on the page, by the covered square foot, on our Accoya page. Alder and white oak are quoted, because species, pattern, solid versus veneer and quantity each move the number and we are not going to publish one we would have to walk back. What does not move: samples are free, you pay shipping, and they go out in 1 to 3 business days, production runs 2 to 4 weeks from an approved shop drawing, there is no credit account to open, and trade pricing is applied at the order. Request a spec sheet and sample through the Trade page ›
A Related Product Worth Knowing
Snake River Hardwoods’ own Ultra Shelf line sells a textured solid hardwood shelf and mantel product called the Artisan line, in Artisan White Oak and Artisan Alder, with four texture finishes rather than three. It’s the retail, ready-to-install expression of this same texturing technology, on a finished shelf instead of raw material. See it at ultrashelf.com.
How Material Ships
| Option | What You Get |
|---|---|
| Raw, ready to finish | Textured and sanded, unfinished, ready for stain, oil, or sealer on site |
| Prefinished | Clear-coated at Rigby before it ships |
| Stained | Stained to spec at Rigby before it ships |
| Painted | Painted to spec at Rigby before it ships |
Most fabricators working from a finish schedule already set will want raw material and will finish on site to match the rest of a project’s cabinetry or millwork run. Projects that need a factory-consistent finish across a large order, or that don’t have finishing capacity on site, can order prefinished, stained, or painted material direct.
The Rigby, Idaho Facility
Every piece of our material starts at Snake River Hardwoods’ own facility in Rigby, Idaho, on the Snake River. It’s a 22,500 square foot plant that Murphy Door® acquired from a hardwood processor that had been running that floor for 30 years, with a team of roughly a dozen employees and growing. The founder of that original operation helped build Murphy Door®’s very first product more than 13 years ago. The Rigby acquisition brought that relationship back under one roof.
We buy timber by the board foot from trusted suppliers and mill and texture engineer it ourselves at Rigby. We are a hardwood processor, not a forest owner. We don’t harvest timber and we don’t claim to. What we control is everything from the log yard’s output forward: milling, texturing, sizing, drilling, and finishing.
Texturing and Cross-Scoring
The cross-scoring and texturing runs on our own texturing line. This is the equipment that puts the actual pattern into the wood: solid hardwood, veneer, and exterior siding all pass through it. The line is what makes the texture repeatable from board to board instead of relying on a hand tool that varies with the person holding it.
The Custom 5-Axis Mill
Separately, Rigby runs a custom multi-tooled 5-axis mill built to our own specifications. That is a different process from the texturing line, and the two shouldn’t be confused with each other. The mill is a multi-tool production cell: it handles several pieces of material at once, on one machine, running texturing, sizing, and drilling simultaneously across all of them. Where the texturing line puts the pattern in, the mill is what lets us size, drill, and texture a batch of pieces in one pass instead of staging each one through separate machines.
The Finish Line
Finishing runs through a coating line out of Germany, the same equipment maker known in the industry for conveyor-fed spray systems built for wood components at production volume rather than a hand-held gun in a booth. It is what runs our prefinished, stained, and painted options: material moves under multiple spray guns on a conveyor, with speed and gun settings stored by recipe, so a stain match or paint spec we’ve run before doesn’t have to be re-dialed in by hand every time. That’s what “prefinished at Rigby” actually means on the spec sheet: not a touch-up, a repeatable finish pass.
Together, these three machines are the reason we can hold a repeatable texture and a repeatable finish across a full production run, at a scale most shops texturing wood by hand or with a single-purpose router simply can’t match. Full equipment story on the Craftsmanship & Engineering page ›
Requesting Specs and Samples
Snake River Hardwoods sells at trade pricing, a price break available at time of order or quote. We don’t offer credit accounts, purchase order terms, or invoice terms. Every order is paid at the time it’s placed. If your firm needs a spec sheet, a physical sample set, or a quote on a specific species, pattern, and finish combination, that request goes through the Trade page ›
Common Questions About Textured Hardwood
Does texturing work on veneer, or only solid wood?
Both. our texturing runs on solid hardwood and on hardwood veneer, using the same equipment and the same patterns. Edgebanding is also textured to match.
Can I get material prefinished instead of raw?
Yes. Material can ship raw and ready to finish, or prefinished, stained, or painted at Rigby before it ships, depending on what the order calls for.
What machine actually cuts the texture into the wood?
Our texturing line does the cross-scoring and texturing. A separate custom 5-axis mill built to our own specifications handles simultaneous sizing, drilling, and texturing across multiple pieces at once. They’re two different machines doing two different jobs in the same production line.
Where is this material actually made?
At Snake River Hardwoods’ own facility in Rigby, Idaho, on the Snake River. We’re a mill set up for architectural-scale hardwood work, with texturing, 5-axis milling and finishing on one floor.
Does Snake River Hardwoods harvest its own timber?
No. We purchase timber by the board foot from trusted suppliers and mill and texture engineer it ourselves at Rigby. We’re a processor, not a forest owner.
What’s the difference between this and reclaimed or hand-distressed wood?
Reclaimed wood gets its texture from age and prior use. Hand-distressed wood gets it from a person working each piece by hand. our texturing presses a calibrated, repeatable pattern into new-cut hardwood or veneer by machine, so every piece in a run matches.
Can I match a textured veneer panel to a textured edgebanding on the same order?
Yes. Edgebanding is textured to match the face material it’s applied to, so a veneered panel’s edge reads as continuous with its face instead of showing a flat, untextured edge line.
Part of a family of American manufacturers
Snake River Hardwoods is the hardwood mill of Murphy Door® Inc., milling textured hardwood, veneer, siding, and edgebanding in Rigby, Idaho, and shipping to all fifty states.