The new Wapiti Table in black walnut harvested from Grinnell College campus Designing wooden furniture requires that you think like the tree. Trees constantly absorb and release water, expanding and contracting while they do so, and harvested wood will do the same. And the trunk of a tree is strong as it grows up and towards the sun because the tree needed to grow tall, but if you slice across the grain you lose all that strength. This means that when you design with wood there are limits that you have to keep your eyes on at all times. Forget […]