Not hardwood.  Reclaimed = pine board you'd find at Home Depot.
At first I thought $95 was a good value (I got a larger size at 30&#34;L x 8&#34;D) for a reclaimed wood floating shelf as thick as this one.<br /><br />Well, you get what you pay for. &#34;Reclaimed&#34; really means cheap scrap lumber ... this piece of wood was soft pine no different than what you would find in the remnants at Home Depot. I ordered the &#34;torched with grey&#34; finish and it looked, well, unfinished. Unsanded, and there were splinters. I ended up sanding it myself and adding my own stain, and it looks ok now.<br /><br />I guess what I'm paying for is the precision alignment for the floating look—there's a base piece that fastens to the wall, with two dowels on the opposite side.  The majority of the shelf is a separate piece that slides onto the dowels on the base.  The two pieces do line up well.  But I'm a little concerned that at 30&#34; x 8&#34;, there are only two dowels, each only a 1/2&#34; in diameter and only about 3 inches long. Certainly will not put anything heavier than 5, maybe 10 pounds on it.<br /><br />It looks alright now, and a casual observer might never realize it's cheap pine. But I was not expecting to do the extra work to make it look better than scrap lumber. So 3 stars.
Rating: 3 stars