Breaking ground on our new shop
The posts are set, the 3 phase transformer is set, the pad is graded. Ready for plumbing and electrical rough in and then slab pour in a couple weeks. Stay tuned for progress pix.
Read MoreABH Designs is thriving in EL Paso Texas. Every project shown in this short video includes our live edge planks. Thanks to one of our partners here in Albuquerque we can get him pallets of material very inexpensively.
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Our new shop is almost ready to open. We have power and the concrete floors are sealed. We will be setting up machinery and doing finish touches for the next few weeks and hope to be fully operational by the end of June. It will never be this clean again!
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Today we harvested an amazing Russian olive, probably 60 years old, standing dead for a long time. We were going to fell it with the chainsaw but our friend Martin knocked it over with his backhoe so we got an extra 12” of the biggest diameter log. Very glad of the backhoe- it would have
Read MoreRed oak
Yesterday we opened up this 13’ red oak log- almost flawless 18”-24” slabs with lots of rift and quartersawn grain, a little bit of spalting. We had to call in reinforcements to wrestle the planks into our kiln- the widest ones were at least 160 pounds. Shout out to Billy Warriner and Dylan Findley- we couldn’t
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