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The Best Types Of Wood Slabs For Live Edge Furniture, Epoxy Resin Tables, River Tables, Custom Desks, Handmade Beds, Epoxy Resin Table Tops, Bar Tops And Countertops

How to Select the Ideal Wood Slab [For Your Custom River Table]

[2″ Thick Live Edge Woods Slabs – Black Walnut, Maple, Hickory, Elm, Cherry, Mahogany & Oak Are Ideal]

You can choose any type of wood to use for a custom epoxy table, custom river dining table, live edge desk, custom made bed or bed frame, custom built epoxy resin and wood furniture, live edge wood and epoxy resin countertop, handcrafted table top, bar top or kitchen island.

Watch this video as 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 of live edge wood slabs, grains, and species, including cherry, walnut, sassafras, and hickory.

If you are interested in buying a kiln dried live edge wood slab, prices start at $25 per board foot. They are properly stored at our custom furniture company warehouse in Cleveland, Ohio.

What Wood Should You Use To Make A River Table?

CVCF woodworkers know how to choose the best boards for epoxy tables and epoxy resin river tables. CVCF uses live edge wood slabs (with natural edges) that are made from sustainably harvested tree trunks. In this video, watch how lumber is harvested sustainably for use in live edge furniture and epoxy tables. Sustainable harvesting allows the population of trees to be maintained or to increase over time, while also preventing damage to the eco-system.

Watch How Lumber is Harvested Sustainably for Use in Furniture

How Thick Should A River Table Be?

If the wood slab (especially black walnut) is at least 1.6″ thick, that should be good enough. However, a 2″ thick wood slab is perfect for making epoxy resin and wood tables, desks and countertops. The wood slabs need to be absolutely flat.

You can build a epoxy resin river table as thin as 3/4” for a coffee table, but CVCF designers recommend at least 1 1/2″ for dining tables, with 1 3/4″ being ideal for tables that seat 10 to 12 people.

To make a river dining table or river coffee table, you will need a singular board you can cut (or CNC carve) or two wood slabs that you can match up (book match) to create a flowing river effect by filling the gap by pouring epoxy resin.

How To Make A Swirl Effect In An Epoxy Resin River Table [By An Expert]

In this video, Brandon, woodworker and expert resin artist at CVCF, shows you how to create the subtle (or not so subtle) “swirl” effects in the epoxy resin poured deeply down a custom built river dining table.

Custom Built Epoxy Resin “Intercoastal Waterway Design” And Live Edge Wood Conference Table And Occasional Dining Table $10,000+ | Sold Online By Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture In 2020

Watch Live Edge Wood Slabs Carried to Shop To Make Custom River Tables For Customers In The U.S.

Video: Watch How Wood Slabs Are Flattened for River Tables (CVCF 2020)

CVCF frequently uses wood slabs that are 2″ thick to custom build sturdy farmhouse tables for customers that order locally and online in the U.S. After sanding, these 2″ thick slabs end up being about 1 3/4″ thick.

CVCF can also use 2 1/4″ thick slabs, 2 1/2″ thick slabs and 2 3/4″ thick slabs to make ultra-sturdy custom conference tables and restaurant tables that endure frequent movement and substantial wear and tear.

Video: Watch Timber Cut Into Wood Slabs to Make Live Edge River Tables

CVCF does not always remove the bark before sanding the wood, filling in the bumps and cracks and sealing the wood. CVCF craftspeople build molds to secure the wood slabs before pouring the epoxy resin to produce a crystal water effect.

After CVCF resin artists let the epoxy dry (which takes days), they sand the wood again and apply finishes and top coats before attaching the legs. Meet some of the top American custom furniture designers and makers that work at CVCF, here.

How to Select the Ideal Wood Slab For Custom Made Live Edge Furniture

Choose From The Following Hard Wood Species And Solid Woods For Your Custom Furniture Design

Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture sources its live edge slabs from Amish county in rural Ohio, as well as individual specialty wood kiln driers and suppliers nationwide. Each slab has been carefully treated to bring moisture content down to around 8% – a level high enough to keep the piece from cracking, but low enough to prevent warping during exposure to the elements or moisture.

Ash
Camphor
Chinaberry
Eucalyptus
Bubinga
Boxelder
Buckeye Burl
Butternut
Tigerwood
Indian Rosewood
Ipe
Cherry
Cypress
Laurel Oak
Leadwood
Black Walnut
Claro Walnut
Hickory
Mahogany
Maple Bigleaf
Live Oak
Monkey Pine
Norfolk Pine
Sycamore
Maple (Hard or Soft)
Mappa Burl
Oak (Red or White)
Pine
Poplar
Redwood Old Growth
Sassafras
Brazilian Cherry
American Black Walnut
Eastern Black Walnut

Natural Wood Slab
Elm
Barn Wood
Hickory
Reclaimed Wood
Live Edge
Figured Maple
Brown Maple
Hard Maple
Logs
White Or Red Oak
Solid Wood
American Hardwoods
Sequoia
Alder
Birch
Monterey Cypress
Fir
Blackwood Acacia
Teak
Rosewood
Pine
Exotic Woods
Redwood
Bigleaf Maple
Monkey Puzzle
Hollywood Juniper
Monterey Pine
Cuban Mahogany
Tamarind
Acacia
African Mahogany
Cedar
Avocado
Locust
Woman’s Tongue Albizia
Silk Oak
Tropical Almond
Mango

Check Out Our Most Recent Epoxy Table & River Table Designs Here >

Live Edge Seashell River Coffee Table

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Tabletop Wood Examples

CVCF only makes custom epoxy resin furniture out of solid wood slabs—generally with the live edge included. The woods below are the ones we find make the best river tables. A dark river with a light wood is awesome. A light river with a dark wood is even more awesome. You can’t go wrong! Our customers can pick out the exact slab they want when we take them into our wood warehouse or supplier’s lumberyard via video technology. Our workshop is in the Chagrin Valley of Ohio, an area that supports the growth of hundreds of wood species on sustainable farms. Give us a call at 440-591-5511 and Sheldon will help you with your wood selection.

How to Select the Ideal Wood Slab For Custom Made Live Edge Furniture, A Custom Built Live Edge Adjustable Height Standing Home Office Desk, An Epoxy Dining Table Or A Colorful Epoxy River Table

Sheldon Myeroff, one of the top custom furniture designers and makers working in the U.S., 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. Out-of-town customers get on videocall with Shel and go through the selections, and are sent photos of the best ones.

These wood slabs go into the furniture designed by our customers and handcrafted by the artisans in our Cleveland, Ohio workshop. These beautiful one-of-a-kind pieces are then shipped to homeowners, restaurants, offices, businesses, and hotels throughout the continental United States.

Our furnishings include custom epoxy resin river tables, epoxy resin river beds and headboards, epoxy resin desks, epoxy resin wall art, rustic to modern farmhouse tables, barn doors, benches, countertops, shelves and so much more.

“From Forest to Furnishings” is a series of videos by CVCF. Each one shows you a different phase of the custom furniture making process. We start with the business of harvesting timber sustainably in the rich, diverse forests of Northeast Ohio. We take you through all the stages the wood goes through at the sawmill to make the beautiful, smooth live edge slabs that go into our river tables. Then we follow the wood as it is shaped into the finished epoxy resin table and shipped out to our customers. Stay tuned for further episodes!

Building River Tables: From Beginning to End [CVCF 2020]

In this video, Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture gives you an in-depth look at the time, effort, and skill involved in building custom live edge epoxy resin and wood river tables – starting with the sustainable harvesting of trees and closing with shipping the tables to homeowners and businesses all across the United States.

In this video, you’ll see how the wood slabs are cut, air dried, kiln dried, flattened and smoothed at the mill. Then you’ll see how customers are able to select their own slabs for their tables. The slabs are then taken to our custom furniture manufacturing facility just outside Cleveland, Ohio to be cut to specs and prepped for the all-important epoxy pour.

The colorful epoxy colors are mixed and poured between two live edge slabs of wood. We then build special heavy-duty crates -customized for each table – and ship the table to homes, businesses, restaurants, and retirees in Florida, California, New York, Arizona, Colorado, New Jersey, Virginia, and all across America. Sheldon Myeroff, President of CVCF, and Zach Schulte, VP, and Ed Johnson, Administrator, narrate the video.

Watch How Live Edge Wood Slabs Are Air And Kiln Dried for Custom Made Epoxy Tables, River Dining Tables, Adjustable Height Standing Desks And Custom Made Furniture Sold Locally (U.S.) And Online

In this video, 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. The slabs are then put into a kiln for up to three months before the slabs are flattened and levelled.

Wood dried in this manner goes into the furniture designed by our customers and handcrafted by the artisans in our Cleveland, Ohio workshop. These beautiful one-of-a-kind pieces are then shipped to homeowners, restaurants, offices, businesses, and hotels throughout the continental United States.

Furnishings sold locally (U.S. only) and online by CVCF include custom made epoxy tables, custom built river dining tables, one-of-a-kind custom live edge desks, custom handcrafted epoxy resin river tables, unique epoxy resin river beds and headboards, epoxy resin desks, epoxy resin wall art, rustic to modern farmhouse tables, barn doors, custom made benches, custom built live edge countertops, shelves and so much more.

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Information On River Tables And Epoxy Resin From Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture

How Much Does A River Table Cost?
Small river tables range from $800 – $4,000, and larger river tables range from $1,800 – $6,500. Get more river table prices, here.
How Thick Should A River Table Be?
CVCF frequently uses wood slabs that are 2″ thick to custom build sturdy river tables for customers that order locally and online in the U.S. After sanding, these 2″ thick slabs end up being about 1 3/4″ thick.
Are River Tables Strong?
Well built epoxy resin river tables made by CVCF with sturdy natural live edge hardwood slabs are extremely durable and can seat 8, 10, 12 or more people. The surfaces of river table tops made by CVCF, are beautiful, strong and virtually impenetrable. The custom metal river table legs and bases handcrafted by CVCF will last for generations without maintenance.

Learn About Building River Tables And Epoxy Resin And Wood Furniture From Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture

How Do You Make A River Table?
This video shows how the “river” in a “River Table” is created by the furniture making team at Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture. A River Table is a live edge table that uses colored epoxy resin to fill the gap between two opposing live edge pieces– thus creating the appearance of a small “river.”
Why Is Epoxy So Expensive?
The epoxy resins used by CVCF river table builders to coat river table tops are more expensive than casting (polyester or liquid synthetic) resins which are used for molds, figurines, industrial prototypes, jewelry and crafts. Casting resins cost less than clear epoxy resins but CVCF normally uses more expensive epoxy resins to build the highest quality handcrafted and custom designed river tables, due to their strength.
What Is The Best Epoxy For A River Table?
CVCF uses many types of epoxy resins to build epoxy resin river tables and epoxy resin wooden countertops at our U.S. custom furniture manufacturing facility. CVCF river table builders prefer to use crystal clear high performance epoxy resins for wood slab countertops, kitchen countertops and dining room table tops because these epoxy resins are reliable and durable. The epoxy resins used by CVCF are resistant to burns, stains, scratches, gouges, cracks and chips.

How Do You Make A River Table?

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Custom Built Live Edge L-Shaped Desk With Storage & Drawers Sold By CVCF In 2015

The L-shaped corner desk show in this video was custom made with two African mahogany live edge wood slabs. It features hidden storage compartments, a hidden drawer and a hidden shelf for electronics. This handmade solid wood desk was commissioned locally in 2015 from Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture.

Types Of Custom Built Live Edge Furniture For Sale Locally (U.S. Only) And Online By CVCF

Video: How to Pour Epoxy to Make a River Table (CVCF 2020)

How to Order Custom Made Live Edge Wood Slab Furniture Locally (U.S. only) Or Online

Live edge furniture is for sale locally near you (U.S. only) and online at Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture. To order a piece of custom made live edge furniture locally in the United States or online, call 440-591-5511 or email shel@chagrinvalleycustomfurniture.com.

CVCF live edge furniture designers, craftspeople, desk makers and table builders enhance and showcase the beauty of the rustic natural edges of the wood slabs. CVCF live edge furniture makers don’t touch the edges of the wood slabs in order to preserve the outside of the original harvested tree to show the outer edges of the visible tree trunk.

When CVCF artisans finish building a piece of live edge furniture, it looks “alive”. Although live edge wood slabs are somewhat pricey, they are so darn unique, they are worth the extra cost. Live edge tables are trendy because they are a welcome change from the boring contemporary and modern tables currently sold locally in the U.S. and online by traditional retailers.

Live edge furniture is not a fad and is not going away anytime soon. Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture sells sustainably sourced, high quality custom built live edge furniture to homeowners, office managers, restaurant GMs, hotel purchasing agents and retail stores all across the United States.

Some of the best woods used by CVCF to handcraft live edge furniture are chosen because of their ability to endure frequent movement and wear and tear of decades of use. The best woods recommended by CVCF designers for live edge furniture must always be kiln dried. These wood species include black walnut, teak, exotic hardwoods, suar wood (Indonesian Variant of Albizia Saman), elm, hickory, redwood, maple, red oak, white oak, black oak, sycamore, mahogany, cherry and Claro walnut (Northern California Walnut).

CVCF makes custom made live edge wood slab tables in any thickness our customers desire. Most custom built live edge dining tables made by CVCF are 1 3/4″ to 2 1/4″ thick although we often build sturdy farmhouse tables that are 2 1/2″ thick or even 3″ thick.

In this video, Shel Myeroff of Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture tells you how a live edge custom table is made. You’ll see examples of the different live edge furniture CVCF designs and makes, including live edge dining room tables, live edge river tables, live edge coffee tables, live edge conference room tables, live edge credenzas and more – each skillfully handcrafted using only authentic live edge slabs. Finally, you’ll learn how to order these beautiful custom pieces on the Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture website. CVCF ships, delivers and installs heirloom quality live edge furniture all over the United States.

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To learn how to select the best type of wood for an epoxy table, river table or table top, watch this video – “How to Select the Ideal Wood Slab [For Your Custom River Table]“.

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Pictured Here Is Round Black Epoxy Resin River And Black Walnut Live Edge Conference Table That Was Sold Online By CVCF In 2018

Custom Handmade Conference Room Table Material, Size, Shape And Design Options

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Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture makes beautiful, one-of-a-kind, epoxy resin furniture and live edge epoxy resin river tables for homes and businesses throughout the United States. CVCF craftspeople are experts at handcrafting, crating and shipping unique exposy resin furniture.

Please use the information on this page to help you design your own river table, which you can then submit to us for a quote.

You can also complete the form at the bottom of the page in order to pass on your design ideas to CVCF. Feel free to call 440-591-5511 or email shel@chagrinvalleycustomerfurniture.com for more information, get an estimate, or place an order for an epoxy table or epoxy resin and live edge wood “river” dining table.

To help you in the designing you own custom furniture, this page shows you a sampling of wood species you can choose from for your custom wood furniture project.

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To Buy A Custom River Table, Submit Your Design Idea And Get A Price Quote

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Custom Made Live Edge Black Walnut Dining Table With A Black Epoxy Resin River And Embedded Crystals | Sturdy Steel Table Legs Were Also Custom Built For The Client | Sold Online By CVCF In 2020

Custom Built Sturdy And Simple Made-To-Order Rustic Farmhouse Dining Table $1,800+ [Extendable]

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Stylish Modern Blue Epoxy Resin River Live Edge Black Walnut Dining Table $4,200+ [Custom Ordered]

Unique Modern Solid Wood Custom Handmade Coffee Table $800+ [Black Epoxy Resin]

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Large High Quality Custom Designed Epoxy Resin River Dining Table $3,000+ [With LED Lights]

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Custom Metal And Wood Table Legs & Base Examples

At CVCF, we make our own custom metal legs, often based on our customer’s own table leg concepts. Get inspired by some of our designs, or order one you see below. You can send us a photo or drawing of a leg you want us to reproduce. Then tell us what kind of tabletop you want. At CVCF, we cover all the bases (and legs)!

Industrial H-Style With Crossbar

Spindly Tripod

Flippers

Industrial A-Style With Crossbar

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U-Style With X

Narrow Columns With Crossbar

Warped Hashtag

Sideways U-Style With Flat Base

Angie Dickinson Style

USS Dreadnaught

I-Style With X-Base

3-Warp W-Style

Tubular Style With 2-Bun Foot

1-Warp W-Style

Roman Numeral 2-Style With Crossbar

Trapezoid

Wood Trestle With Chevron

Bowlegged

Tweezers

Inner Orbit

Trapezoid With Wood Interior

Flat Base With Half-Hourglass

Custom Epoxy Resin River Colors, Tints and Effects

At CVCF, our craftspeople make our own epoxy resin colors and tints for the river dining tables and epoxy resin and wood furniture we handcraft for our clients. We have put years of research into the art of creating these beautiful features that are either poured between two live edge solid wood slabs, or poured into cracks and openings in the natural wood slab. Custom epoxy resin colors are created as a results of extensive conversations with our customers, who give us direction on what they want, and then are given a few epoxy resin samples to choose from. Epoxy resin colors can be built to be completely opaque, or semi-transparent, and can have varying levels of “motion” throughout the design

Below are some samples of past projects to give you inspiration. These are by no means meant to limit your imagination. Remember, we can make anything!

Walnut Table With Black And Copper Epoxy Resin River For River Table

Black And White Resin River In A River Table

Examples Of Custom Embedded Items, Logos And Engravings

Chagrin Valley Custom Furniture has become more creative in our execution of river table designs by adding decorative elements in the resin before it cures. Taking the “river” concept to its logical conclusion, our builders can make tables embedded with smooth stones, rocks, shells, crystals and more that line the bottom of the resin, adding a premium rustic, outdoorsy flair to an already stunning concept.