Beautiful wild cherry tree begins a new adventure

Written By Robin Wade

I was so glad to hear from Gayle and Doug Evans when they called several months ago.  They have/had a beautiful old wild cherry tree right behind the house for the 30+ years that they've lived there on Lelia.  We'll have to do a growth ring count, but I'm guessing it's been there a century or longer.  Well, the tree service business is good around here, and this majestic wild cherry tree came down yesterday.  I left my 20' trailer parked in front of the house all day, and around 4:00 Doug called to say the bulk of the trunk was sitting on my trailer in three parts.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm going to stop back by next week and help them cut down and remove the bottom 4' of the trunk.  Now all these pieces might look like junk or good land fill, but I'm seeing a few beautiful tables here.  Really looking forward to placing them in the sawmill, and getting started on the next life of this beautiful old wild cherry tree.  Stay tuned.

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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