KP Sawdust Studio

We had an opportunity to take the mill out and cut a couple nice maple slabs from a tree damaged by the wind storm a week ago. At the end of the day we got roughly 50 board feet from 3 logs, and a couple hours of work. The convinent thing about the mill is we can bring it to you to cut any logs on site! Feel free to reach out if interested!

We also have plenty of black walnut and elm slabs available that have been drying for 2-3 years and average around 12% moisture content. If you would like to look at using one for a project, again feel free to reach out!

A couple weeks back, we had the opportunity to get the mill out and have a bit of practice on a mixture of Ash, Cedar, Black Walnut, and Oak! We had come gorgeous woods and grains come out of it!

We just got our website up and running! It’s still a work in progress, and will be updating it as we grow, but we’re excited to finally have this online!

www.kpsawduststudio.com

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Finally… my first table!

This project started July 1, 2020. This project was one I’ve wanted to do for a long time. That being said there was a lot of things I didn’t know how to do. Part of why it took so long to finish was my learning along the way. We started with prepping the black walnut slabs and removing bark from the slab. This ensures the epoxy doesn’t fall off when complete as the bark isn’t a stable surface to bond to.

Next I made the mold for the table, cut my slabs to shape & prepped them with a thin layer of epoxy. The thin layer of epoxy helps prevent your dyes bleeding into the wood & also helps prevent the wood from warping during the curing process.

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The next steps were some of the most stressful & fun parts of the project. Pouring the epoxy. This is a large table - roughly 7’ x 4’. This required a lot of epoxy. I actually didn’t mix enough epoxy the first time so we had to pour it in two layers. Once we got the epoxy poured I used a blow torch to pop all the bubbles. I continued to do this every few hours as they rose to the surface.

After about 4 days we finally de-molded the table. I was so happy with the results & started the next steps to finish it.

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Since the table was so large I took it to a professional planer to flatten the surface. I could have done this myself using a router, but wanted to see if this would be worth doing on later projects. Once I had that done it was a long process of sanding to make it smooth.

Once it was smooth I sealed the table with Rubio Monocoat, a popular hardwood finish, added hardware for the legs & attached them. Finally mid December of 2021 we had our dining room table.