04/27/2021
In honor of Earth Day last week: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 🌎♻️
Our first piece of furniture turned out amazing! In keeping with the mantra of Earth Day, we reused a dead Ash tree for this sofa bar table. As you can vividly see in the 3rd picture, this piece of Ash had sadly, been eaten alive from the inside by a group of Emerald Ash Borer’s - more specifically their larvae. This invasive insect, originally from Northeast Asia, are running rampant in North America killing hundreds of millions of Ash trees since the early 2000’s.
We used - without any pigments - to encase this live edge slab and preserve the intricate patterns left behind by the larvae of the EAB. After de-molding, we used a slab flattening jig and 3.5 hp router to ensure the table was flat on both sides and ready for finishing. After sanding and finish, we capped it off by adding black pipe legs to match the design of the basement where the piece now resides.
