Revealing Natural Beauty

 

Rings artisan woodshop is dedicated to providing truly unique, one-of-a-kind furnishings crafted with a customer’s personal story in mind.

All wood is sustainably sourced from national forests, private property and reclaimed wood products that otherwise would be discarded, the stories told by their rings lost forever.

Our products include:

  • Artisan custom furniture, including live edge “river” epoxy tables.

  • Heirloom tables for home, office, restaurants, retail and more.

  • Kiln-dried live edge slabs including black walnut, sycamore, rainbow poplar, oak, pine and other species; more than 500 slabs on site.

  • Architectural specialty wood, beams, interiors, reclaimed wood.

  • Bar tops, counter tops.

  • Custom-made to fit a variety of interior design styles from rustic, modern farmhouse, contemporary to modern.

We’d love to hear from you today. Let us know how we may help tell your own life story through the mending rings of natural wood.

Woodcrafters

J. Dean Foster - Founder, Woodcrafter - Former news reporter and public relations executive whose career work has been honored in the separate fields of journalism, advertising and PR. He lives in the small coastal town of Meggett, SC on Wadmalaw Sound.

Paul Pepin - Master Woodcrafter - Ordained Methodist Minister (once retired), active missionary and Harley enthusiast. He lives in Adams Run, SC.

Partner Firms - Custom Woodcrafters of Summerville, SC, Sea Island Millworks of Seabrook, SC and several independently owned live edge and specialty wood providers.

Live Edge Techniques

We only use kiln-dried live edge slabs under 9% Equilibrium Moisture Content to assure the best long-term quality of our furniture.

As an additional precaution against cupping / bowing of large slabs, we install router embedded C-Channel metal stabilizer bars (shown left).

Powder coated wood screws with loose-fitting washers are placed into oversized pilot holes to allow the stabilizers to shift over time without causing warpage.

We use the same anchoring technique for our powder coated metal legs, which have wide, 4” mounting plates to further stabilize the table near each end.

These techniques take more time during the build process but we believe it is a wise investment. Unlike processed veneer furniture, live edge wood is more dense and absorbs / repels moisture at a higher rate - much like our own breathing.

And so, we let her “breath.”