Donal Logue

Donal Logue Instagram – Hi. I’m Donal. I’m terrible at social media and photography, but if you want an amazing walnut serving platter or cutting board, hit me up or go to @frisonloguehardwoods and frisonloguehardwoods.com, where these will be listed soon. Oh, and please, give us a follow if you wouldn’t mind! The two center platters are over three and a half feet long, so they are serious heirloom show pieces. If you could see the curl in this grain up close- dang. These slabs were special. We have a ton of walnut logs, so I’m making a heap of them. It’s a time consuming process— Kevin sourcing the logs through his tree service and hefting them up to the mountain, running the logs through the mill, dry kilning the slabs to get their internal temp to 160 to protect them from rot and bugs and to take their moisture content down, flattening them by using a router on tracks where you make a zillion passes and adjust 1/16 of an inch at a time, sanding (and in the case with one of the long platters in the center- taking an exacto knife to sawdust compacted wormholes), and then sealing and staining and/or oiling and beeswaxing. When I get better at stories, I’ll film the process. We ship anywhere in the world and if you are in LA, I do regular runs betwixt there and Oregon. My favorite piece is a Madrone Burl I dado cut to create a traditional Japanese slipper. Madrone is a local species of hardwood here in Oregon- its the favorite of super high end car makers for use in their interior inlays for a reason. Its just incredible wood and is sadly seen by timber companies as a pestilence and burned by the zillions of tons. It’s special, and has a beautiful orangey fire-like glow to it. | Posted on 21/May/2023 07:40:28