oak timber slabs just arrived

Written By Robin Wade

massive oak timber slabsOak Timber Slabs

For anyone that likes wood as much as we do, it's beginning to feel a little like Christmas around here.  After years of planning, sawmilling, stacking, air drying, these beauties just completed their final cure in the kiln and just arrived back at the studio.

Can't wait to get 'em in the studio and start planing a few down to see just what we have inside the beautiful wrappings and bows.  Now all I need is some mistle toe and cider.  -- Yikes - did I say that?

Most of these are way oversized and won't fit in our inside planer.  So, just like the earlier processes, this next step is going to take some time.  We will have to plane them outside, where the width limitation is a whopping 60".  And typically only come complete (the planing process) of three or four a day.

Stay tuned for all the action.  I'll try to get some pics as the progress.

oak timber slabs

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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