feels like a tractor seat

Feb 25

Here's one we made sometime early last year. It was really just a test run, of an idea I had to make some benches with a tractor seat shape & "feel". Used this piece of antique heart pine that come from a grain mill in Columbia, Tn. Well, I never got around to making the benches (yet), but this piece is still sitting on the floor in my office. I haven't been able to fit it yet. Whenever I find someone low enough to the ground, the butt is too small.

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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feels like a tractor seat

Just found the matching slab for the legs of the oak slab table in the works

two oak slab tables ready for a tung oil rubbing