let's get some wood!

As we advance in our proyects, we keep on learning different things and practicing some others. It was time for our third chainsaw milling of this year. This time we had a local maple tree available just a few minutes from the school. I think there is no better way of obtaining wood, making it local and totally sustainable process. 

Maple tree ready for process. 

This maple tree needed to come down for some reasons, it was having some problems growing, and they decided to bring it down. The owners offered this wood to the school, and we got the opportunity to do the chainsaw milling.


It is amazing how simple this is, and how much you can get. What we do is basically slice the tree into thick planks of wood, which will become fine pieces of furniture on the future. 

Slicing some planks.

It will take around two years before this wood is ready to work with. It will have to go through a process of air drying, followed by other processes of humidity reduction, until you end up with wood ready to use. Here at the school we have this sweet room, just beside my bench, in which different species are stored and are available for us to use in our proyects. 

Inspiration levels increase as you enter this room. 

This is some of the things we do around here, I hope you enjoyed!