Stack 07Seasoning
English walnut
50 mm · through-and-through
- Stacked
- Feb 2025
- Target
- 24 months
- Moisture
- 17.4 %
Shed 2 · 41 boards seasoning
Furniture made on the timber's clock.
We don't cut a board until it has stood one year for every inch of its thickness. The dial tracks each stack in the shed, so a chair commissioned today is already counting down.
- Boards stacked
- 1,284
- Pieces since 2011
- 612
- Bench queue
- 14 wk
Bench time--:--:--Next stack readyMar 2027
01 · Seasoning ledger
Every stack has a dial.
We weigh a sample board from each stack on the first of the month. When it stops losing water, the stack comes indoors. These are the four nearest the door.
Stack 03To the bench
Ripple sycamore
25 mm · quarter-sawn
- Stacked
- Sep 2025
- Target
- 12 months
- Moisture
- 15.2 %
Stack 11Seasoning
Brown oak
75 mm · waney edge
- Stacked
- Jan 2024
- Target
- 36 months
- Moisture
- 18.9 %
Stack 14Stickered
Wild cherry
32 mm · slab
- Stacked
- Apr 2026
- Target
- 15 months
- Moisture
- 24.6 %
02 · Process
Sixteen weeks at the bench, after the years in the stack.
The calendar is fixed by the wood, not by us. What we control is the last four months, and we keep them for one piece at a time.
- T−0
Fell & sticker
Milled the week it comes down, stacked on 25 mm stickers under the north shed roof.
- T+1y/in
Season
One year for every inch of thickness, weighed monthly against a sample board.
- +3 wk
Condition
Brought into the heated workshop to settle at 9 % before a single cut is made.
- +10 wk
Make
Sawn, planed and joined by one maker, start to finish, on the same bench.
- +3 wk
Oil & cure
Five coats of hardwax oil, a week between the last two, then wrapped in blankets.
03 · Pieces
Three drawings we make again and again.
Each is drawn to your room and cut from a stack you can visit. Prices include delivery within two hundred miles of the workshop.
No. 14
Windsor side chair
Ash spindles, walnut seat
- At the bench
- 9 weeks
- From
- £2,400
No. 22
Trestle dining table
Brown oak, drawbored
- At the bench
- 12 weeks
- From
- £7,800
No. 31
Hanging wall cabinet
Ripple sycamore, cherry pulls
- At the bench
- 8 weeks
- From
- £3,900
04 · Commission
Set the thickness. The wood sets the date.
Thicker boards make heavier, calmer furniture, and they take longer to settle. Slide to see when a piece felled for you this month would arrive.
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