Local Dawn Redwood, Milled, Dried, and Fabricated into an Office Table Top

Once a project is decided on, its time to pick your lumber. Here is a stack of Dawn Redwood slabs, just out of the kiln. Rough cut and ready to work.

Slabs are surfaced/flattened. Once flat, they can be cut down to the desired size.

Cut to rough size and jointed, boards are placed together to test their fit and look.

Prep to join the boards, a biscuit cutter is used to cut the slots for biscuits.

It is very important to get 100% coverage when gluing a joint.

Even clamp pressure is important for a solid glue joint

Once dried, one last surfacing and flattening on the glued up table top.

Cutting the flattened table top to its final shape

Routing an edge detail

After several rounds of sanding and finishing techniques, the table top is ready