walnut slab console table - day 2

Written By Robin Wade

walnut slab console table

walnut slab console table - day 2

Day 2 of the walnut slab console project shows great progress.  To begin with, yesterday I wasn't able to commit that this would become the planned console table.  Today, I am confident that it will become a console table.  And it will become a beautiful console table.

I was hoping to complete this last table before the end of the year. 

At this point we have lots more sanding, as well as attaching the legs to the top, and a few more days of finishing.  Looking like this will become the first finished piece of the "SuperNatural".  I like the way the new year's looking.

walnut slab console table - day 2

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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