Making progress on the creekside wood burning oven

Sep 19

Now that we are finally back on the project, we are making nice headway. Yesterday my buddy Nolen helped mix and lay the 3" of concrete cladding over the arch of firebricks. Then proceeded to lay the first three courses of sandstone bricks along the front and chimney.

With sketchup's 3d modeling program (which I use religiously for furniture design) I completed the design including the planned 4x4 walnut timbers and transluscent roofing.

Today, we should have the brickwork completed. From here, we'll let the new portland dry naturally for a week or two before we start drying it out further - slowly - with small fires at first. I doubt I'll have time to start cooking before we get back from High Point.

Local bakers - come out come out where ever you are!!

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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Making progress on the creekside wood burning oven

one more conference table delivery shot

our first conference table delivered this morning