A bigun in the sawmill

Written By Robin Wade

This massive oak log just barely fit in our really big sawmill.  We can cut a log five feet in diameter, but this bigun's even bigger.  So Monday, we had to cut about 5" off of the bulge of each side to help "her" fit.

From here, we'll cut slabs till we get down to 18" or so from the ground.  Then we'll use the remaining log as a table top to plane some big slabs that we just got back from the kiln. 

 

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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