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The LT40 Super Hydraulic's head and controls
Frankston, East Texas

From East Texas log to your table.

Local logs, many of them storm-downed, sawn on our Wood-Mizer LT40 Super Hydraulic, air-dried on site, and jointer/planer flattened in our shop.

See the slabs

How it's made

Log → slab → piece

The storm-downed sweetgum butt log
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The log

Local East Texas trees, many of them storm-downed, hauled to the mill in Frankston.

Walnut slabs at the mill
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The slab

Sawn on the LT40, stickered and air-dried on site. We measure and meter each lot before it's listed.

Finished live-edge eastern red cedar bench with black steel legs
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The piece

Jointed, planed and ripped to order, or built into custom work like benches and tabletops. Never CNC.

In stock

Every slab, and its log

Black walnut double live-edge slab, lot BW001
BW001 · Black walnut

Black walnut double live-edge slab

T 2-1/4"W 12"L 72"≈ 13.5 bd ftMC 12.8%

The log: Air-dried at our sawmill. The source log's history isn't recorded for this slab.

$120 as-isSee this lot
Black walnut bookmatch pair, lot BW002
BW002 · Black walnut

Black walnut bookmatch pair

T 2-1/8" eachW 11" eachL 71" each≈ 23 (pair) bd ftMC Pending

The log: Two sequential slabs from the same black walnut log. Where the log came from isn't recorded.

$295 for the pairSee this lot
Black walnut three-way bookmatch, lot BW003
BW003 · Black walnut

Black walnut three-way bookmatch

T 2"+ eachW 12", 13", 12"L about 59" each≈ 30 (set) bd ftMC 13.4%

The log: Three sequential flitches from the same black walnut log. Where the log came from isn't recorded.

$349 for the set of 3See this lot
Gum bumelia boards, set of 3, lot GB001
GB001 · Gum bumelia

Gum bumelia boards, set of 3

T 2 at 2-1/2", 1 at 3/4"W 5-3/4" eachL 37" each≈ 8.5 (set) bd ftMC 14.8%

The log: From a gum bumelia, a small native Texas tree that rarely yields lumber. Where it grew isn't recorded.

$125 for the set of 3See this lot
Sweetgum live-edge slabs, lot SG001
SG001 · Sweetgum

Sweetgum live-edge slabs

T 3-1/4"W ~26" (most)L 12'-6"≈ 88 per slab bd ftMC Partly air-dried

The log: A storm took down this big East Texas sweetgum. We sawed the 12'-6" butt log (32" big end, 30" small end) into slabs.

$195 per typical slabSee this lot
Carrying a board through the shop past rough-sawn pine boardsPortable sawmill with a log on the bed outside the mill shed
About us

A sawmill and a wood shop

We saw logs on a Wood-Mizer LT40 Super Hydraulic and do custom sawing: bring your logs and we'll saw them to your thickness and width. In the shop we joint, plane and rip lumber to order.