Vermont HeritageTables · Est. Green Mountains
The Craft

The slow way. The only way we know.

A Vermont Heritage table takes between two and five months to build — longer if the wood needs more time. That isn't inefficiency. That's the work.

  1. 01

    The Forest

    We work only with selectively harvested timber from family-owned Vermont woodlots. Trees are tagged, felled, and skidded by horse where possible — never clear-cut.

  2. 02

    The Mill

    Logs are quarter-sawn at our on-site mill the same week they're felled. Slabs are stickered and stacked to air-dry in the barn for a minimum of eighteen months.

  3. 03

    The Bench

    Boards are flattened by hand-plane, jointed, and laid up. Every mortise, tenon, and dovetail is cut with hand tools. Nothing is glued where wood movement can do the work.

  4. 04

    The Finish

    We finish with food-safe pure tung oil and beeswax — no polyurethane, no synthetic stains. The wood deepens with age and use, exactly as it should.

  5. 05

    The Signature

    Every table is signed, dated, and numbered on the underside. We register it in our ledger so future generations can trace its history.

"There's no rush in a tree, and there's no rush in a table. You give the wood what it asks for, and it gives you a hundred years back."

From the workshop ledger, 1987