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Echos of the Past: The Bidwell Desk
Best Artist Mixed Media blue ribbon: CS Woods and Shawn Rivett Designs! This Claro walnut live edge waterfall desk with shed antler leg was shown at the Western Design Conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Reclaimed Boxcar Decking
Forty years of service and still fabulous! This wood has traveled up and down the Colorado Front Range for decades. A reclaimed product that could tell you tales. Federal regulations limit the use of a railcar to 40 years, but this product has decades more to give.
Our CSWoods Crew
The CSWoods Staff is made up of family, friends and a shop cat! Everyone loves wood, and works together to bring our customers the very best service and products we can.
Sutherland Welles, EcoPoxy & West System - Our Recommended Finishes
We want you to leave our store excited and ready to create some sawdust, and have your finished project be beautiful, tough, and ready for a lifetime of love.
Wood Finishing and Staining DEMO + SALE
Mary Goderwis, President of Sutherland Welles, is coming to answer your questions and do a demonstration of some of their outstanding products.
George Nakashima
George Nakashima is one of the most influential contemporary woodworkers of all time. A Japanese-American architect and furniture maker, he has inspired generations of woodworkers. His signature work celebrates the organic, individualist nature of wood. His large live edge table tops embrace the rough wild nature of natural edges, crevices and cracks, highlighting the figure of the wood with simple, beautiful finishing and expert butterfly joinery.
Oxidizing Tannins in Woods
A common problem found working with reclaimed or old cut lumber is the need to clean up and mill the wood while maintaining the weathered appearance. Whether one is making a new project, or trying to match the wood in an older piece, the grayed out “old look” can be a challenge to achieve.
The Story of Claro Walnut
Claro walnut trees are no longer planted and are becoming increasingly fewer and fewer. They are now being taken down because of old age and changing land use. What once was a beautiful back yard tree has grown to an unmanageable old giant. That is where we come in.
Wood Likes to move it, move it
As a client told me the other day, wood is perpetual. It is an organic substance and is constantly moving from its form as a tree through its life in any wood product. The constant movement in wood is caused by wood fibers and cells absorbing and losing moisture in response to changes in the relative humidity of the surrounding environment.