planing two walnut slabs

Written By Robin Wade

planing two walnut slabsplaning two walnut slabs

We've been looking around the studio for just the right two walnut slabs to be the desk on display in Winter Park's 2012 New American Home.  This will actually be the second (or third) desk piece to enter our own "contest" to determine the winner.  These beautiful walnut slabs wouldn't quite fit in our indoor 20" planer.  So we brought them outside to the Lucas, where we can plane up to 60" diameter slabs with ease.  I can still hear the Kohler Engine out there, so they much not quite be planed. 

Will be working on this desk for the remainder of the week.

planing two walnut 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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