About the studio
We started with a tree
we could not bear to chip.
Nine years, 214 rescued trees and one very stubborn sawmill later, we still do the same thing: mill it, dry it, join it, oil it.
01 - Process
Nine months of drying, and then it becomes quick.
Air-drying takes one year per inch of thickness. A 2-inch plank rests for two years before it ever meets a machine. It is the least photogenic part of furniture making and the reason our tops stay flat.
- RecoveryWe take the log from the property, mill it on site when access allows, and sticker-stack it in our kiln yard.
- SelectionBoards are chosen for one piece, not for a catalogue. Book-matched panels come from the same log.
- JoineryMortise and tenon, dovetails, no fasteners in structural joints. Frames are dry-fitted twice.
- FinishHardwax oil, two coats, hand-burnished. You can repair it yourself in ten years with a cloth.
214Trees rescued from the chipper
38Species milled, mostly oak, elm, walnut
7People in the workshop
10 yrFrame warranty, transferable
People
Two arborists, one cabinetmaker.
Marek Voss climbed trees for eleven years before he ever cut a dovetail. Ines Alder runs the kiln yard and knows every stack by heart. Toby Reed is the cabinetmaker who taught both of them to sharpen properly.
We are a small shop on purpose. Every order passes through all three of us, and the person who answers your email is the person who chose your boards.
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