About Rustic Roots Warehouse
You are picking wood for a dining table that takes daily meals for years. For Custom Dining Tables in Matthews, we match species to that wear and to the humidity swing.
But a hard top handles a dropped fork under daily use. White oak and hard maple hold up under family use. Walnut and cherry dent sooner. So we ask how you will use the table before we pull a slab.
Always Growing. Always Creating.
Custom Dining Tables in Matthews and Summer Humidity
Wood takes on moisture across the grain. When the air stays humid, a wide top grows in width. But length barely changes. In Matthews, summer air is humid, and winter heat dries the house back out.
Because the swing is large, we leave a wide top free to move on the apron. A breadboard end lets the top expand and still look finished.
Where the Work Begins
We start with the room. After we know the size, the wood pile comes next. Then we look at what is dry and on hand. The kiln minimum is 500 board feet, so one dining top doesn’t fill a load.
A customer log can share a kiln charge after we mill it, when the log qualifies. People often want the table with other custom woodwork from the same species. We can mill that stock here on the Lucas mill, in slabs up to six feet wide.
Shaped by Nature. Finished by Hand.
Finish choice changes the care you do at home. A film finish, such as varnish, sheds a short spill. But an oil finish looks dull when it needs another coat. Because a dining top sees water and hot plates, we walk through both.
Epoxy fills a void you want to keep. After it cures, we still finish the whole surface. That’s part of Custom Dining Tables in Matthews, and it happens before we sand.
A Resource for Ideas of Every Size
Shop Time for Custom Dining Tables in Matthews
You can look at sample boards and walk the slab stack in one visit. But drying takes longer than milling. We write the schedule out once we know thickness and moisture.
For someone coming from Matthews, North Carolina, stand at the slab in daylight. Then we can mark the section that becomes the top.
More to Discover Around Every Corner
When humid weeks stack up, look along the top for a slight crown or a gap at a joint. Then check where the top meets the base. A damp cloth left under a runner keeps that spot wetter than the rest.
See What We’ve Been Creating
People in older houses have told us an upstairs room stays closer to outdoor air. But in newer houses the cooling can pull a room drier while it runs. So the species talk changes with the house.
When the room swings hard, we build so a wide top can change width. Custom Dining Tables in Matthews also have to clear the doorway. You’ll need to measure the path before you settle on a wide slab.
Planning an Outdoor Project?
Covered Porches and Custom Dining Tables in Matthews
In Matthews, a porch table sits in damper air than a dining room table does. Exterior pieces need a finish you can renew, and we say that before we cut.
Strong sun on a covered porch can fade a finish. So we often pick a different species for the porch.
People have called after a top rubbed a base apron through a humid spell. Then the rub eased once the air dried. Other calls were about a water ring in the finish, or dents in walnut from a dropped pot.
We talk about that dent risk before walnut leaves the shop. But oak marks less under the same hit. We say that in the same conversation, before anyone commits to walnut.
Come See What’s Taking Root
If you are choosing a new top, ask how that species moves in damp air. Then look at live-edge slabs and the finishes on hand. For our custom dining tables work, we settle the wood before we talk joinery. So bring the room length and how hard you use the table.
We process our own lumber at the sawmill, and we custom-mill qualifying customer-owned logs. The kiln run for Custom Dining Tables in Matthews starts at 500 board feet when your wood needs drying.