Low natural edge oak table in the works today

Written By Robin Wade

Oak is becoming my next walnut.  Have only made a few oak tables, but am becoming more and more intrigued with it, it's strength, beautiful grain patterns, even wondrous coloration as it begins to rot.  Three years ago I found some really large oak logs, cut them into big slabs, and allowed them to air dry.  Now, they are out of the kiln and beginning to become furniture.  I will probably continue to continue to build the bulk of my pieces in walnut and cherry, but for now, I'm really getting a kick out of oak.  

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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