walnut trunk / root

Written By Robin Wade

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This week we finally got some time to work with some of our more funky slabs.  These are the only walnut root slabs I've ever obtained.  So, whatever few tables these make, that's going to be it for years.  A couple of years ago, Louis Bartmess had an old walnut tree fall down on his farm.  We spent the morning, pulling and shoving this walnut root up onto the trailer.  We found that these roots don't roll quite as easy as logs do.  I saw Louis at a city council meeting recently, but didn't get a chance to tell him (two years later) that we are getting closer to a table!

walnut trunk / root

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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