R ENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Celebrating the unique beauty of natural wood and modern design, Live Edge Slabs Reno-Tahoe is excited to bring visions to life with custom furniture pieces.

Live-edge wood, a slab cut from the heart of a tree with its growing edge intact, gives sculptural heft to built-in furnishings such as kitchen islands, bookshelves and bathroom sinks.

It takes eight minutes to cut each 11-foot-long slab because the wood is so hard, said Tom Rogers, owner of Woodhill Firewood, which takes in 600 tons a day from tree trimming and removal jobs.

Students and alumni at UVA Sawmilling are transforming 35 tons of white oak and cedar into benches, raised beds and more.

Cut Your Own Wood Slabs With a DIY Band Saw Mill Reuse large tree branches and stumps by cutting them into smaller pieces. By Timothy Dahl Published: May 06, 2016 9:00 AM EDT ...

A beloved 200-year-old beech tree in downtown Ashland had to be cut down, ... Merle was cutting slabs this past week, with slabs weighing more than 800 pounds and measure 4-by-10 feet.

A couple of months ago, they saw a listing on Facebook Marketplace for large pieces of an old cedar tree, so they drove from Hudson to Crystal River to take a look in person.

A Toronto firm sells bathtubs made 6,600 lb. blocks of wood from a single tree. Six feet in diameter, they are designed by Timber Neutral from individual logs drawn by horse from Columbian forests.

The rest of the tree was cut into the slabs that are to be auctioned off. “I was crying every time I made a mistake,” Auch said. If all the slabs were bought at auction just for their asking ...