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

Feb 26

This week we got started building our first table from the old tree that provided shade to the parishioners of the St. Luke MB church in Athens, Al. I've been looking all over for the rest of the matching oak slabs from this tree. Found the smallest slab, one of the first cuts, to make the matching legs out of. My carbide tipped planer is only 20" wide. Anything larger has to be planed outside. No complaints. So glad to have it. But it's lots slower.

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

ok, it's going to be a (natural edge) coffee table

feels like a tractor seat