Finished work
A stack of rough sawn lumber asks you to imagine something. Easier to just show you. These came off this mill and ended up in people's houses and gardens.
Eastern red cedar
A single cedar board with the natural edge left on, hung with forged iron hooks. The wavy top edge is exactly where the tree ended — nothing about it was shaped by a saw.
Eastern red cedar
Cedar's colour is the reason people choose it indoors — warm pinks and reds against pale sapwood, and it keeps its scent for years.
Eastern red cedar
Hand-forged leaf hooks. Worth saying: good wood deserves hardware that isn't an afterthought.
Red oak
One slab, live edge left intact, on black steel legs. Sitting where it was meant to sit.
Red oak
The slab is thick enough to need no apron or bracing — the wood does the work and the legs stay out of the way.
Red oak
Grain running the full length, uninterrupted. You only get that from a single board, which means you only get it from a log wide enough to yield one.
Red oak
Red oak isn't a weather wood on its own, so a bench like this wants a finish and some shelter. Ask and I'll tell you what suits where it's going.
Yours next
I mill the lumber. Some people take it from there themselves, some want it surfaced and ready, and some have a builder waiting. Any of those is fine — tell me what you're making and we'll work out what it needs.