Saturday's Tennessee River Log Ride

Written By Robin Wade
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Riding downed logs down Alabama river(s) is a tradition that has been perfected thru the years.  Cherokee Indians rode logs before they learned to hollow them out, and eventually perfected the canoe.  On each of our tenth birthday's my Dad introduced the sport - although it was on the very tame Cypress Creek. 

Now that our Tennessee River has been dammed/controlled/slowed down it's a much more leisurely enterprise.  Sunday we found/recovered this nice walnut log.  This was Sassafras' (the two year old golden) third log ride so far.  I think she's kinda getting the hang of it. 

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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