District Mills Blog

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Sep, 12

Planer

Unfortunately for some, reclaimed wood does not magically come planed and finished and in nice uniform bundles like lumber at the hardware store. If it did, we would have nice shiny robots to do all our work for us while we sip cocktails and everyone would have the nice same furniture as everyone else. Fortunately for us, getting to turn ugly ducklings into cinderella’s is what we enjoy. As we pass each piece (and we do each and every piece) through our machines (planers, sanders, etc.) you begin to find methods and adjustments to bring out and appreciate the smaller details, the grain, the colors, an interesting organic pattern, things that are hidden from plain sight, but brought out through a painstaking process. The end result is something truly unique, and no piece is ever the same.

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