wood waste idea #2

"Salvaged", "Reclaimed", "Reused", "Found", "Rescued", "Recovered", "Recycled", and many more are buzz words that the furniture and wood industry love to be able to use. We do this knowing it helps us to be more environmentally responsible and these tags are becoming valued more and more by consumers today.

Since coming into this industry we have realized how much opportunity there is in using such wood. Intrigued by the possibilities we started to develop products using solid logs. We used a number of ways to start acquiring our stumps. One is the local tree pruning business that dumps all their "waste" in the front of their yard for people to pick through for firewood, some stumps come from vendors who hold salvage permits- many of those logs are from the nearby Fraser river, which brings a mass of logs to the lower mainland every spring. We store them in our shop so that they can dry out a bit over time, then they are less messy to turn and lighter weight by the time we are shipping them.

So what becomes of such a stump...?
...after it was first turned, not sanded or finished yet.


the voluptuous stool finished. check out this and other stools here.