Slabs of wood can be used for many things such as table tops, bar tops, clocks and male pies. We can make clabs from any kind of wood that can be found on the west coast but specialize particularly in douglas fir, sitka spruce, yellow cedar, red cedar and hemlock.
SLABS
Slabs, like timbers, come in any size you wish. A slab is basically a large
board of any thickness with the wane, or the natural sap wood left in tact.
Slabs are popular for sign makers. They sand blast, or carve the face for
art and print.
Big thick slabs go for bar tops or kitchen counter tops, dining room or
coffee tables, and they make the greatest mantle pieces. Especially if there
is some burl disfigurement along the wane.
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In garden art, slabs can be described as a cookie or slab of a flare
butt growing from the root wad. It is the lower part of the tree where
all the deep bark seams are. We cut them 3 to 5 inches thick and they
can be 2 to 6 foot in diameter. They look quite attractive when dried
and resurfaced then poly coated for weather with addresses or greetings
or art at the head of the driveway.
We can also do interesting shaped slabs. Even slabbing a portion of a
root for a one of a kind shape. Bent or sweeping (curved) trees can be
slabbed, then butterflied or bookmatched to construct fantastic meeting
or board room tables.
There is lots of room for imagination in specialty milling of slabs.
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