We've been commissioned by a repeat customer of ours to build a large serving platter to be on display on a large ottoman in their living space. We picked out the Olive chunks at the mill together. #olivewood #resinart #odiesoil #earthplatter

One of the best parts about being a woodworker in Central Phoenix is all the old-growth trees around Arcadia during spring-time bulk pickup. There's been a lot more construction going on in Phoenix than usual after this latest wave of expansion and that means more felled trees. A lot of these pieces are cut too small to be salvageable or sometimes they arent good species to build with, but sometimes you get lucky. We found this large Olive wood stump that will be turned int

We've finished this big Olive live edge slab top and bottom quite some time ago and its been awaiting plans. I grabbed the last couple slabs of Olive at the mill to use to build matching table legs. We planed them and cut them into the tapered shape for the legs and cut them with our Festool TS75 Track Saw. The original plan was to build cleats for the legs but I opted for a mortise and tenon joint glued with resin instead to keep the angled intersection between top slab and