help me here with this oak timber table

Written By Robin Wade

Ok, I've got this amazing 8' long oak slab.  Seems perfect for a dining table.  One problem.  Back three years ago, when we were flitch cutting the log into lumber, we ran into metal in this slab.  We removed it by poking the end of a chainsaw around, making a notch and pulling it out.  The notch is more than visible, and there is a hole all the way thru the slab.  My thought is  that this makes a wonderful table with a little story behind it.  Linda just walked by, saw it for the first time, and can't imagine leaving the notch in a beautiful thick oak timber table like this.  Ok blog and facebook friends, what do you think??

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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