Littlebranch Farm Rustic Furniture

The soft hidden stillness in nature sets the creative mind in motion. This is the roots of natural art. As an artist at I relish the stillness of nature and in the stillness the artistic design takes form in natural wood furniture.  The elegance found in natural live edge and complex grain patterns brings life to this rustic art.  The art of natural wood furniture design and crafting is seeing the hidden treasures.

Natural wood furniture is the cover for many styles of furniture. Burl furniture is one of these styles. What is a burl and where does it come from? Burl wood is a type of fast-growing, abnormal growth found on some trees. Burl wood grows because the tree has experienced some sort of environmental stressor damage.  This is often caused by either a fungal attack or an attack by insects. Many of these burls are hidden in the root system.

This burl wood is highly desired by wood artist around the world.  Burl wood such as big leaf maple burl, Cherry burl, black walnut burl, old growth redwood burl are some of these highly desired burls. These artist use these burls in wood turning , handcrafted rustic tables, rustic beds, rustic chairs. The natural hidden beauty comes out giving life to the hidden secrets of nature. That is art of burl furniture.

Kelly Maxwell

Over the past couple of years we have been looking at ways to become more green.  We already use recovered or dead wood, recycle, convert waste wood into compost and heat an use low E lighting for studio and storage and office.  Now we are testing non toxic finished. After several emails and phone call we have several samples being shipped to the studio.  All will be tested and graded to meet the high standard of current finishes. We look forward to the test and to share with pride our new finish.

The first redwood burl slabs are coming out of the solar kiln at 7 to 8 % moisture. Today I started working the first redwood burl slab out of the solar kiln.

Over the past several years I have use both air dried and kiln dried wood. If the wood is air dried and I have lots of time ( years ) I can produce  stable high quality furniture. With time and the dry wood becoming in high demand. I decided to build a solar kiln to dry all mt redwood burl slabs, maple burl slabs, black walnut slabs and cypress slabs, I have use a solar kiln before at my local saw mill with great success. It is a new page in the history of  Littlebranch Farm. Kiln dried redwood burl slab.

The Atlanta Log and Timber home show looks to be a great show. I setup the booth # 324 today and I have a great showing o redwood burl, maple burl, cedar, Black walnut, myrtle burl and more. If any one would like passes send me the number and the names. Look forward to seeing you!