Bespoke River Gum Living Edge tree trunk slab coffee table
At Workshop87 we love wood. Even when it tries to do us in. We love this table, but it isn't the easiest of relationships. The table was once a huge old River Gum with a trunk width of almost 2 metres on the banks of the Helena river. It was felled in 2002 and has been seasoning in our yard since then. We recently decided to take the huge trunk and mill it into slabs, which is where the, ahem, 'difficulties' began. When we put the trunk through the mill, it went brilliantly. We could see the go