Why two identical pieces are impossible
Customers sometimes ask for “the same table as in the photo”. We can make a similar one, to the same idea and in the same colour, but not even nature can make the same one.
Look at the cross-section of an old oak and you see its biography: wide rings from rainy years, narrow ones from dry years, a crack where it once split, a hollow left by insects or rot. We do not hide any of it. On the contrary, we build the piece around it.
The wood picks the shape
With stump tables the outline of the top is the outline of the tree. We do not cut it into a rectangle to make it tidier, because everything that makes it interesting would go with it. The live edge stays, with all its dents, and the resin fills what is missing: the crack that would otherwise catch crumbs, the hollow that becomes a lake.
Resin never settles the same way
Even when two customers choose the same colour, the resin spreads in the mould over wood that is different. The wave on a board depends on how the white pigment was pulled by hand and how the first layer took the second. Moss and pebbles land where they land. That is why the photos on the site show pieces already made, not catalogue samples.
So what does “made to order” mean
- Dimensions: length, width and thickness of the top, height of the table.
- Colour and clarity of the resin, and what goes into it: moss, stone, sand, gold leaf, a compass.
- The wood: what we have in the workshop or a piece you bring.
- Personalisation: a surname, a coat of arms, initials or a date, engraved or cast into the resin.
Everything else, the rings and the edges, the wood adds. And that is why your piece is truly yours.
