slab wood & lumber
slab wood & lumber
Designing and building furniture and cabinets, our need became great for unique lumber. With the commercial lumber industry focusing on quantity, we saw an opportunity to harvest and salvage our own trees. With the purchase of a sawmill and a lumber drying kiln in 2010, we set our sights on the growing industry of live edge lumber, also known as slab wood. With hobbyists and professional woodworkers searching for something new to hone their skills, slab wood has fast become the go-to medium for the creative woodworker.
We pride ourselves in offering one of the biggest bookmatched slab wood collections!
Designing and building furniture and cabinets, our need became great for unique lumber. With the commercial lumber industry focusing on quantity, we saw an opportunity to harvest and salvage our own trees. With the purchase of a sawmill and a lumber drying kiln in 2010, we set our sights on the growing industry of live edge lumber, also known as slab wood. With hobbyists and professional woodworkers searching for something new to hone their skills, slab wood has fast become the go-to medium for the creative woodworker.
We pride ourselves in offering one of the biggest bookmatched slab wood collections!
faq
all you need to know about our slabwood
With the shipping industry struggling with over-demand and staffing issues, we currently are not shipping individual slabs. We are asking you for in-person pick up if possible. If you would like to arrange the shipping, we can crate and package your slab wood.
For shipment of large orders, we can arrange delivery for you. Either delivering to you personally or using one of our small local shippers.
While we don’t run sales on our products, we understood the advantage to the buyer to buy in quantity. Therefore, we can discuss discounts for large orders of slab wood or lumber.
Given the increased value and time required for providing bookmatched slabs, we add $10% to any single slab you wish to buy from a bookmatched set.
All slabs between 1 ¾” and 2 1/8” thick is referred to as 2” thick. All lumber and slabs between ¾” and 1 ¼ ” thick is referred to as 1” thick.
Unfortunately, there are many selling slab wood air dried and claiming it is safe to use in your woodworking projects because it has air dried for years. This is false. In order for the water to leave the plant cell, known as the “bound water”, it requires heat, vacuum, or a combination of the two. It is the water that flows around the plant cells, “free water”, that is released during air drying. Moisture will always reenter lumber through humidity “free water” but will not return within the plant cell “bound water” if kiln dried. Without kiln drying , there is also the possibility of harmful pests that reside in wood getting into your shop and home. All the slab wood and lumber MN Woodcraft LLC sells is kiln dried to 6-8% moisture content using vacuum and heat.