Black Walnut
The Farmhouse
92" × 42" × 1.75"
$6,800
1 Off Design · Sam Costa, Sawyer & Craftsman
NOTWOTREES.
NOTWOTABLES.
Custom live edge tables, built one at a time from trees with a story.
The three paths
Three ways to a one-of-one.
However the wood finds you — or how you find it — the ending is the same: a table that will never exist twice.
Path One
Buy a Table
Finished, oiled, and waiting. Reserve a one-of-one piece Sam has already built.
See ready-made tables
Path Two
Pick Your Slab
Choose a dried slab from the shop — Sam builds it into the table you want.
Browse the slab wall
Most PersonalPath Three
Bring Your Tree
Storm-felled backyard oak, farm elm, family walnut — we mill it, dry it, build it.
The heirloom pathCustom Crafted
From standing tree to standing table.
Every step happens under one roof, one set of hands, one long attention span.
01The Tree
Every commission starts with a tree — storm-felled, salvaged, or standing dead. We never take a healthy one.
02The Mill
The log gets bucked and slabbed on a portable mill. Book-matched, quarter-sawn, or flitch — however the tree wants to open.
03The Dry
Stickered in the barn for air-drying, then finished in the kiln. Nothing gets built until the moisture is right.
04The Bench
Flattened, joined, hand-planed, and oiled by one set of hands. Live edge left honest, cracks stabilized, grain given its due.
The Inventory
What's in the shop, right now.
Walnut + Amber Epoxy
The Ember
78" × 38" × 2"
$8,400
Spalted Maple
The Hearth
54" × 30" × 2"
$3,200
Red Elm
The Study
60" × 26" × 1.5"
$2,400
Book-matched Walnut
The Twin
84" × 44" × 2"
$7,400
Walnut Console
The Passage
68" × 16" × 1.5"
$2,900
Your Tree, Your Table
That tree means something. Let's make sure it stays in the family.
The oak your kids climbed. The walnut your grandfather planted. The elm that came down in last spring's storm. Send it over and we'll mill it, dry it, and build it into the table your kids will eat at — and their kids after that.
Step 1
Mill
We pick up the log — or receive it delivered — and slab it on the mill.
Step 2
Dry
Sticker-stacked to air-dry, then kilned to furniture moisture.
Step 3
Build
Flattened, joined, and hand-finished into the piece you'll pass down.
The Archive
Every one a first.
From the Sawyer
One tree at a time. One table at a time.
I started with one storm-downed oak and a borrowed chainsaw mill. That tree turned into a dining table my brother still eats breakfast at. I haven't stopped since.
Every commission that leaves my shop was one tree — a real one, with a place and a year and a reason it came down. I do the milling, the drying, and the building myself. If you send me your tree, I'll send you back a table that could only ever have been yours.
— Sam CostaSawyer & Builder
- Milled & built by one set of hands
- Salvaged and client-provided wood welcome
- Lifetime craftsmanship guarantee
Kind Words
From the people who eat at them.
"Sam took a walnut from our backyard — the one my dad planted in '78 — and turned it into a dining table for our first house. It's the only piece of furniture we'll ever really own."
Marta & Wes K.
Cranberry Twp., PA
"I've bought furniture from a lot of makers. Sam is the only one who called me back the same day and remembered my kids' names on the delivery."
Devon R.
Sewickley, PA
"The grain is unbelievable. Photos don't do it. It's the piece everyone touches when they walk in."
Alina P.
Fox Chapel, PA
Commission a Table
Let's find your tree.
Tell me what you're picturing. I'll write back within two days — usually sooner.