Question 1

How do you source the sinker cypress?

Accepted Answer

Live Edge Woodworks has access to private swamps, land and waters where sinker cypress was felled hundreds of years ago. We utilize our own heavy equipment to carefully remove the logs and return them to our lumber yard where they are dried and cut into slabs for use in our projects.

Question 2

How old is sinker cypress?

Accepted Answer

Most sinker cypress is hundreds, if not thousands of years old. We tell our clients that it's like finding dinosaur bones because between the age of the trees and the amount of time they have spent under water, you will never--in our lifetime--find wood of such beauty and strength.

Question 3

What does "live edge" mean?"

Accepted Answer

Sinker Cypress logs are not perfectly round. Their beauty lies in the edges of the wood itself. Live edge refers to the natural shape of the log, and by proxy, the slabs that are created from it.
 
Each slab will have a unique edge--like a fingerprint--that is reminiscent of the shape the tree held as it soared toward the sky. 
 
The water acted as a preservative and rather than decay, the tree held its form and that edge is captured in the slabs and furniture we create today.

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