Rustic Dining Tables Figure 1: An example of redwood with a curly compression grain. Redwood is one of the few trees that will produce wood slabs that are long and wide enough to produce a full live edge table out of a single slab. This allows us to produce absolutely gorgeous rustic dining tables. With…
Extracting and salvaging redwood stumps, logs, or even butt cuts can be incredibly challenging. To extract redwood is likely the most laborious step in cutting redwood. This is true even with large earth-moving equipment like cats and loaders. A lot of the stumps are buried in the underbrush, dirt, smaller stumps and logs, sand, gravel,…
Redwood Burl Slab Table Redwood burl slab tables account for more inquiries than anything else here at Redwood Burl Inc. We have thousands of redwood burl slabs available and ready to go, but only have a limited amount of space on our website for pictures. Because of this, we only list less than 5% of…
Redwood Bartop Project: Special projects such as redwood burl bar tops are something we get to work on every day here at Redwood Burl Inc. But then again, every project is special to us. We work with clients all over the country on a daily basis. We make custom modifications to most customers’ orders before…
Rustic Kitchen Countertops – Craig’s Project Everybody wants rustic kitchen countertops, but where do you start? Just give us a call and let us help. We have redwood slabs in a variety of sizes and styles. If we don’t have what you’re looking for on our website, we can always custom cut it for you. It…
How to Build a Rustic Kitchen Table Rustic kitchen tables are one of the larger items we sell regularly here at Redwood Burl Inc. By larger, I mean up to just over 20 feet in length. Rustic can have many meanings. When most people think of rustic kitchen tables, they think of a farmhouse table. These…
Rustic Fireplace Mantel Options Rustic fireplace mantels are one of our best-selling product lines. It’s a sure thing here, every day, that someone is going to be working on fireplace mantels. It’s just one of the many things we do here at Redwood Burl Inc. Some of our newest rustic fireplace mantel designs are…
Responsibly Sourcing Salvaged or Reclaimed Redwood Is all salvaged or reclaimed wood considered “green”? The answer is no. It can only be considered “green” if it is used within 250 miles of where it came from, otherwise, it’s just salvaged or reclaimed. Today we are going to talk about the definitions of some of these words,…
Sanding Redwood An example of a redwood slab, sanded to perfection. Let’s talk about the first step of finishing your own redwood – sanding. Firstly, the most important rule for sanding redwood is simple – don’t overdo it! Secondly, the best advice we can give is to begin with the finished product in mind. This tutorial…
Grain Characteristics of Old Growth California Redwood Today I am writing about some of the different grain characteristics found in the redwood we have available here at Redwood Burl Inc. First off, we have our tree slabs. These are usually cut from the main trunk of the tree. Some are really straight-grained slabs. These come…