MOST S ID IN G IS LIKE PLASTIC SU RG ERY. IT LOOKS A LITTLE TOO PERFECT TO BELIEVE.

M"yb. the grain is just a. little too regular. Maybe the pattern is a little too repetitive. Maybe you just can't replicate wood with vinyl or cement.'Whatever, it's all a little, well, alien.

Contrast TiuWood. Note the knots. In some rri cases, saw marks. I he grain meanders. There are honest peaks and valleys to the ridges. Damn, this stuff is as rough and craggy as the real thingl

And itt not easy creating imperfection. To more perfectly recreate wood, we took a methods cant match. Add74O tons of pressure to eadr sheet and, voilir, an exact re-production every. time. Down to the last hiccup.

The looh oJ tedaq knots anil ail. hand-chrseled and gculpted a precise 4'xl6'mirror-image metal plate with a naturalistic irregulariry modern step. It's why we Warranty tran{trabb to all owners. can offer not only the legitimate look of wood, but a full 3O-year warranty that, unlike most, is transferable to all owners. For the whole story visit www.CollinsWood.com. Or call us at I-800-4I7-3674.

Jim Wallace and Roger Wright have relocated Triple L Enterprises to Bozeman, Mt.

Charles Goodman is new to Discount Builders Supply, San Francisco, Ca., after the recent closure of family-owned Goodman Lumber, a 5lyear-old San Francisco business where he worked for 45 years. Discount Builders Supply is also owned by the Goodman family.

Rob Taylor has been named v.p. of appearance wood business for Weyerhaeuser Co., succeeding Bitl Blankenship who has been appointed v.p. of OSB.

Kurt Kuhn has retired from the sales dept. at TreeSource, Portland, Or., after 15 years.

Larry Haase, formerly White Sands Forest Products, is now in sales at Cheshire Lumber Sales, a subsidiary of Crown Pacific Co., Albuquerque, N.M.

Claude "Scotty" Scott has been named president and general mgr. of Wis-Cal Sales, a division of Wisconsin-California Forest Products Inc., Redding, Ca., which plans to trade in panel products and millwork in addition to lumber.

John Ferguson is sales mgr. for manufacturing.

John Adams, ex-Ridgewood Forest Products, and Al Martindale, exForest Grove Lumber, are now with Belco. Inc.. Tacoma. Wa.

Marcy Parrish has been appointed marketing mgr. of McKenzie Forest Products, Springfield, Or.

Kevin Igli has been named director of environmental affairs for Willamette Industries, Portland, Or.

John D. Saunders, son of John Saunders, has left Economy Lumber Co., Campbell, Ca., to study medicine at Hahneman University, Philadelphia, Pa.

Eric Schooler has been appointed president and ceo of Collins Pine and Collins Products, subsidiaries of Collins Cos., Portland, Or., succeeding James Quinn after I I years. Quinn continues as president of Collins Ostrander Resources Co. through October and remains on the board into 2001.

John Cole and Grant Pearsall, exUSC lst string football safety, are new to sales for Capital Lumber Co.. Chino. Ca.

Bill Keith has been promoted to v.p.national accounts for Jensen Distribution Services, Spokane, Wa.

Thomas L. Caltrider, senior v.p. of insulation, Johns Manville, Denver, Co., has been named chairman of the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association, succeeding Bruce Cowgill, who is now president and ceo of Ball Foster Glass.

Eric, Alan and Kristen Hern are the new owners of Regulus Stud Mills, St. Maries,Id.

Mark Austin, Synergy, Inc., is now Rocky Mountain district sales mgr. Michael Cole has been promoted to chief financial officer at Universal Forest Products.

Mary Viola is now director of corporate communications for TruServ Corp. Robert Ostrov, chief administrative officer and general counsel, has been appointed chairman of the firm's Canadian subsidiary, and Michael Quane, corporate treasurer, was elected to the board.

Gregory D. Brenneman, president and c.o.o., Continental Airlines, and Richard H. "Dick" Brown, chairman and ceo, EDS, have been elected to nine-month terms on Home Depot's board of directors.

Rulon Heaton, ex-MK Diamond, has been named product development mgr. for Superior Tools at Custom Building Products, Seal Beach, Ca.

Ben Stephens has been named director of information for the North American Wholesale Lumber Association. Jennifer Chan is a new bookkeeper. Shannon Sabres, NAWLA mgr. of membership, and her husband, Jim, are the proud parents of 7 lb., 3 oz. Hannah Kristine, born July 13.

Warren Easley, v.p. of technology and quality, Louisiana-Pacific, Portland, Or., and John LeFors, v.p. of building material sales and marketing, Willamette Industries, Portland. Or.. have been elected chairman and vice chair, respectively, of APA-The Engineered Wood Association, Tacoma, Wa.

Rich Stolz, Boston Pacific LLC, is back in Redding, Ca., after a sales trip to Massachusetts' Cape Cod.

Ken Tinckler, Tinckler-Squires

Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Ca., and his wife, Jo, are back from a fiveweek vacation in Europe.

Paul Gaboury, 85, ex-Golden Gate Lumber Co., Alamo, Ca., and his wife, Dale, spent two weeks in Alaska, where he panned $17 in gold dust. Could be a second career, notes Paul.

Huck DeVenzio, Hickson Corp., recently visited 3,281-ft. Angel Falls, the world's tallest waterfall, in Venezuela.

Pete Peterman, Peterman Lumber Co., Fontana, Ca., donated a kidney to his younger brother, Lee, who had been on a dialysis machine. Both brothers are doing well after the July 19 surgery.

Goode Knight has been named evening security supervisor at Mungus-Fungus Forest Products, Climax, Nv., according to owners Hugh Mungus and Freddy Fungus, succeeding I.M. ttl,ee" Ving, who has departed.

Wood ln, Nuts & Bolts Out Wisberg Lumber Co., San Luis Obispo, Ca., has closed the Ace Hardware portion of the company to concentrate on lumber sales.

"I think you hit a certain age and want to spend time doing other things," said co-owner Susan Wisberg. "We're more comfortable with lumber and plywood and are going back to that."

The business began in 1952 as a cabinet-making shop owned by Earl Wisberg, father of Bob Wisberg, Susan's husband. Bob and Susan started working for the elder Wisberg in 1973, back when lumber and plywood were just a side business to bring in additional money. Earl's wife, Betty, helped out by working in the office.

In time, the focus shifted to lumber, and by 1977, when the business became an Ace retailer, the cabinetmaking portion was dissolved. The firm moved to its present six-acre location three years later and Earl Wisberg retired in 1984.

"We're in the process of holding a clearance sale of all of our Ace stock," Susan said. "We're not going to carry hardware items any longer."

The couple has already leased the former Ace space to two tenants, and is in the process ofadding a third.