live edge slab tables

When our designer first started making live edge slab wood furniture many years ago, one question was asked repeatedly.
     Why make furniture that is basically a whole tree with edges that are not straight and "boards" that are so incredibly wide?
The answer has not changed over the years. Our designer, Ward Troetschel answers that question this way -

     "Live edge hardwood - it is strong, it is beautiful , it is real."

So often in the technologically driven world we live in, the products that make up our life are a product of technology. As a person living in this 21st century so often the products that make up our lives are cheap plastic imitations of real, that "wood grain" furniture in your house that you just know is particleboard with a cheap laminate covering to make it look like "real wood" , the clothes you wear made out of synthetic fabrics, the food you buy at the local supermarket with way too much plastic packaging, the food in those plastic packages with chemical additives you can not pronounce and shudder to think of what they could be doing to your body. I was reading a package the other day and what is "ethyl methyl phenylglycidate" and why is it in my food?
Technology is good, the problem arises when some people / corporations corrupt technology to sell the consumer a version of real, but not what is real.


Here at Edinboro Creations all the wood we use is real wood - we use locally grown and harvested hardwoods to create each table , one piece at a time, by hand.

     So, exactly what is live edge hardwood? It means that the edges are not straight, but are the actual outside edges of the tree with nothing removed. Sometimes the bark is still on the wood and sometimes it sheds off its bark as a part of the natural process of drying wood so it is stable enough to be used to make furniture.

One piece at a time, by hand is more than a slogan
it is a way of life and of business that means making
each piece individually and making each piece primary
with simple hand tools followed by hand applying our
own hand rubbed finish. We feel that this intense level
of commitment to each piece of fine furniture we build
is essential to producing gallery quality home furnishings.

We hand build live edge slab sofa tables , entry tables, dining tables, occasional tables, beds, custom desks, executive desks and coffee tables that are all one of a kind. All tables are hand built using simple tools and hand finished using a hand rubbed oil finish.
We use locally sourced hardwoods that are hand selected for their strength and beauty.
***Please note that the term "live edge" and "slab wood" or used interchangable in the furniture industry. So when this website mentions "live edge" or "slab wood" this is a reference to the same concept of using the whole tree including the live edge that the bark is normally attached to. Sometimes in our designs the bark is still attached and sometimes the bark naturally falls off the live edge as the wood dries.****
The items pictured are finished and available for purchase.

Pictured below: Four photos of live edge walnut sofa table/ entry table. This stunningly beautiful piece is created of Black Walnut sourced from Mercer county in Western Pennsylvania's Amish country.
Size is 36" high by 54" long by 18" wide. Strong,light-weight and the crotch wood top has some of the finest "wild grain" our designer, Ward Troetschel, has ever worked with.
True art furniture at the low price of $2,875

This live edge Black walnut sofa table / entry table is one of the finest examples of strength and beauty in one piece of furniture.
Black walnut is one of the lightest and also one of the stronger
domestic hardwoods. This specific sofa table has a top made from
a crotch cut slab that is almost 2" thick! Rare in its size and "wild grain" beauty, this sofa table is one of the most lovely piece of art furniture available anywhere, at any price. $2,875

Since 1989 Edinboro Creations has been
creating art that people can use. Creating
"live edge" furniture is part of our passion
for making your house the home you have
dreamed it could be. Contact our designer,
Ward Troetschel, to fill your home with custom
designed furniture and accessories to make
your dreams come true. We also do fine furniture
refinishing and restoration for those cherished
pieces already in your collection.

Looking for
"Organic Furniture"?
It is here.
We love trees and
green is a core
principle of our business.
As a special order we use
VERMONT NATURAL COATINGS
PolyWhey Furniture Finish.
Whey is a renewable resource and
a natural by-product of the dairy
industry used in making cheese!!!
Check out their website!

MORE INFO. ABOUT
"Organic Furniture"

We can also use Pure tung oil
which has Zero VOC's and
is the all natural product
of tung trees.
We use recycled packaging
materials, recycled paper,
CFC lighting and list goes on.
For more info. contact us
"We speak green"