This picture shows The Pinyon’s beetle-kill pine butcher block table tops cut to length, wide belt sanded, and ready for final finish sanding. Each table will be sanded to 220, so smooth and soft as a baby’s blanket! After that we will be applying a clear polyurethane to all surfaces, top and bottom. This acrylic polyurethane is one of the best commercial finishes available in terms of durability and hardness, and most importantly for our customers, it is formaldehyde-free and qualifies for LEED project credits. We will be delivering these tables by the 1st of December, and The Pinyon is set to open shortly after that!
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Once the rough cuts were dried to the desired moisture content, everything was run through the S4S machine, planing 4 sides at once for a perfect square. This photo shows the milled butcher blocks being glued and clamped in the Taylor. The Taylor allows us to be super-efficient; we can glue, clamp, and rotate the spindle to the next rack and keep going. After all the tabletops are glued up, we run them through the belt sander for a final 1 1/2” thickness.
Next step: finish sanding..
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The previous photo shows the raw material we started with: a stack of rough-cut beetle kill pine 2x4s. I know, it’s not much to look at, but I thought it would be interesting to show the evolution of these tabletops as they evolve from this rough stack into 20 beautiful butcher block-style tops.
The photo here was taken after the boards had been cut to rough lengths, ripped and squared. We let them air dry in the racks to ensure that all excess moisture was removed before cutting final dimensions.
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Beetle-Kill Pine is definitely gaining popularity here in Colorado, as folks are realizing the need to use this valuable and abundant resource. There is no better place to showcase a constructive use for the effects of the pine beetle epidemic than in a locally-owned restaurant setting. We were contacted by Leorah Young and Theo Adley at Boulder’s newest venue The Pinyon, to add to their concept of locally-sourced ingredients, timeless, hand-prepared foods and their strong sense of responsibility to the local environment, by building the restaurant’s tabletops from Beetle-Kill Pine. The owners wanted a design that was solid and earthy, yet classy and memorable. The following pictures and descriptions show the evolution of the Blue Pine Woodworks butcher block-style tabletops we built for them.
The Pinyon is located at 17th and Pearl and is slated to open early December, 2010.
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We will be periodically posting pictures and project updates here. Special thanks to Nate Morris at Verve Creative Design for web development and creative services and Aaron Dover at Aaron Dover Photography for the amazing studio and location work!
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