….what this Coffee Table or Bench took?
This Sitca Spruce tree section is hundreds of years old, is from the Inuit region of Alaska, is 48” in diameter, weights 800 lbs., required a 72” blade to cut, and required over 40 hours of sanding, polishing, and finishing.
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….that wood breathes?
Wood moves with the changing of seasonal temperature and humidity. A 3’ wide solid wood dining table has the capacity to expand and contract up to ¼” or more depending upon environmental conditions. We understand this natural process and build our furniture accordingly. Disastrous results such as splitting and cracking can occur if this movement isn’t taken into account. However, sometimes we look for wood with splits, cracks, knots, mineral streaks, and gunshot wounds to make some of the most interesting tables you will find in the world.
…. about our paper use?
- To produce all the newspapers on a given Sunday in America requires that 500,000 trees be cut down.
- If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save around 250,000,000 trees each year. If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
- If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you'd end up with about 700 of them, which will be used in one hour at an average supermarket.
- The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees resulting in the cutting down of 2,000,000,000 trees per year.
- The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
- Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
- Each ton of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
- The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
….that the oldest tree currently living is a Bristle Cone Pine named "Methuselah" and is acknowledged to be about 4,765 years old. In order to protect it from vandalism and trophy seekers, the US Forest Service has not disclosed its exact location, other than it resides in the White Mountains of the Inyo National Forest in southeastern California. See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/long.html
….that the largest single stemmed tree, by volume, is the General Sherman Giant Sequoia located in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park. It is estimated to have 52,500 cubic feet of material, with an annual wood growth of an amount equal to a 60 foot tree of average proportion. At its base, its measures 36.5 feet in diameter, 109 feet in circumference, and its largest branch is almost 7 feet thick. See http://www.sequoia.national-park.com/info.htm#tree
….the origin of the word, Chairman? Toward the end of the 1700’s, many homes featured a large room with a single chair reserved for the head of the household. The others sat on the floor. Sometimes a guest, most often male, would be invited to sit in the chair during a meal. As the meaning of sitting in a chair equated to being important and in charge, the seated individual became known as the “chairman”. Today in business, we use a similar expression, “Chairman of the Board”.
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