Two new new tables in finishing room

Sep 4

This morning, we moved the completed tables out of the finishing room, moved these two in, and placed the first coat.

The 12' solid walnut conference table will be shipped to Master Architect Phil Kean's, this is the first of two conference tables that'll be used in their new office/showroom. We,ll spray finish 5 coats of our super earth friendly water based urethane before they are ready to ship. The top won't be attached to the legs/stretcher piece until we complete the spray finish.

The coffee table was made from perhaps the worlds largest?? sassafras tree. Joe Mcphail, friend and local arborist lost the tree to typical tree crew "topping", which kills every single tree that's topped.

First coat of super earth friendly waterbased finish applied to two tables we just completed.

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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Two new new tables in finishing room

Sassafras coffee table- the before pic

Here's a good one from around 1980 Raft Race days