making two natural walnut timber tables

natural walnut timber tables

With less than a month before the High Point Spring Market, we are scampering around doing almost nothing that doesn't involve the show.  This will be our first showing in what I believe to be the best wholesale furniture location in the world, IHFC InterHall, and we are hoping to make a splash.  The space is a little on the little side, and it feels important to get it right. 

After marking off the booth space in our studio, it's apparent that most of our FULL sized furniture just won't fit.  So we are making a few smaller than normal pieces for the show.  Here we are using our panel saw to cut a matching pair of natural walnut timber tables.  Although I haven't measured the thickness yet, these little ones must be in the 6" thick range.  They should be finished and ready for pics by the end of next week.

solid walnut low table

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.
robinwadefurniture.com
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thank you steve jobs