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Continue the journey "From Forest to Furnishings" as Sheldon Myeroff takes you to a local Amish sawmill where wood that has been air and kiln dried for up to a year and a half is flattened and planed into beautiful, smooth slabs. Now they are ready to be made into a custom epoxy resin river table at Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture.

Sheldon Myeroff takes you to the wood slab barn at a local Amish sawmill where wood for Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture's epoxy resin river tables are stored. Customers get to choose from thousands of different sizes, grains, and species, including cherry, walnut, sassafras, and hickory. Local customers pick the pieces out in person.

Sheldon Myeroff of Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture takes you to a local Amish sawmill where logs that have been cut into slabs are air dried and kiln dried to remove the moisture from the wood. This helps prevent warping or cracking of the wood when used as tabletops for epoxy resin river tables. The slabs are air dried in large stacks. They are separated from each other by sticks. Air drying takes up to one year.

Sheldon Myeroff of Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture takes you to a local Amish sawmill where logs are cut into slabs to make tabletops for the epoxy resin furnishings in Episode 2 of our "From Forest to Furnishings" series. After delivery of the logs to the mill, a huge automated saw cuts 15-20 slabs out of 4 foot diameter tree. These are then stacked in piles to be taken to racks where they are air-dried for up to one year.

This video shows you the, many reasons why Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture makes the highest quality custom river tables made in the United States. It's real custom furniture, designed by you and handcrafted in our workshop by real woodworking professionals. You even get to pick out the slabs you want for your table. Other so-called "custom" furniture makers aren't really selling one-of-a-kind pieces like CVCF. They offer you limited choices for tabletops, legs, sizes, etc. - assembly line produced from prefabricated parts in their warehouse.

Sheldon Myeroff, President of CVCF, ventures deep into the forest to survey the harvesting of wood that is used in his authentic custom furniture. The Forest Service has marked trees that need to be cut down for the health of the whole ecosystem. Thinning the forest allows sunlight to reach the smaller trees so they can grow. Once felled, the tree is marked in sections for cutting into slabs at the sawmill.