walnut scraps dining table

Written By Robin Wade

walnut scraps dining tablewalnut scraps dining table

This is the dining table that's been on display at the library for the past year.  It is made from nothing but local walnut.  The varied coloration is from the mix of walnut sapwood and walnut heartwood.  A couple of times a year we make a few tables from the left over scraps of other tables.  More often than not, we end up with a more stunning piece from the scraps.  Not sure what this is telling me, but I am listening.

We just got it back from the library last week.  It took some abuse, but nothing that just a little sanding and a couple more coats of tung oil won't fix right up.

walnut scraps dining 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.
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