Oak is probably the most common wood used in the home. Oak can be found in furniture, kitchen cabinets, and flooring in many homes. The pervasiveness of this wood comes from its affordability and popularity during the 90s. A lot of homes built or remodeled during that era received oak flooring.
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Florida Breaking Ground For New Kiln & Wood Slab Expansion
This week our Sarasota, FL facility broke ground for a new kiln and an extensive wood slab production space. The new wood slab space will provide us with more area to store and air-dry a greater selection of wood slabs. The 10,000-board-foot dehumidifying kiln will bring our company-wide drying capabilities to 600,000 board feet. This includes dehumidification, vacuum, and conventional steam kilns.
What Else Can You Make With Wood Slabs?
Live-Edge Wood Slabs are beautiful pieces that give us a glimpse inside the complicated beauty of trees. Think of a live-edge wood slab as a CAT scan where you can see the different layers the tree is made of, from bark to heartwood. While the common inclination is to create tables out of them, there are other ways to utilize their unique beauty.
Update: Live-Edge Urban Wood Slabs
Five months ago we introduced our urban lumber program to turn unwanted trees from local areas into slabs, saving them from the wood chipper. We’ve had great success in bringing in large amounts of logs in a variety of species, each more interesting than the last.
5 Ways to Recycle Your Christmas Tree
Now that Christmas is over, it’s time to get rid of your tree. While it would be easy to just throw it out, there are better ways to dispose of a Christmas tree.
Handcrafted Yellowheart Award
Yellowheart’s color and working properties endear it to woodworkers like Christopher Kameck, who chose Yellowheart to create awards for 43North.
Urban Live Edge Wood Slabs in Sarasota, FL
Florida is a unique place at the crossroads between nature and urbanization. Touted as one of the fastest growing housing markets, Florida needs clear land to build homes and infrastructure to support the new families. In this process, many older trees that have outlived their natural life cycle are cut and brought to us. It’s incredible what species Florida houses.