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There are plenty of places to look for creative and unique real wood furniture on the web today. However, nothing gives you the opportunity to create something incredible, like crafting your own unique furniture.

Basic woodworking tools come in all shapes and sizes, such as a drill, saw, and sander. While choosing the perfect can be daunting, we’ve put together a quick guide to some of the most useful tools. Whether your interest is in traditional or rustic furniture, making this list is a great guild.

Basics of real wood furniture

Whether a DIY or professional woodworker a sander is a must-have. Options such as belt and random orbital, along with hand sanding blocks are all must-haves. While hand tools such as chisels and squares are important are great for the fine details of woodworking. Most importantly no modern real wood furniture shop is complete without a joiner, table saw, and a thickness planer. One of the common tool needs but the least thought of as a tool is a clamp. Clamps are used in most woodworking projects thus one of the most important. While these are all great suggestions really the project and woodworking style will dictate the tools in tools needed. Remember this suggests of the basic toolkit needed for a wood shop is just that basic. We have touched on dust control, jigs, or the many other tools in the woodworking and furniture making world.

Woodworking trade tools

Aside from the items above, your woodworking toolkit should be built based on furniture style. Whether contemporary, modern, or rustic furniture, the tool is the same. For instance, a circular saw can help with dimensioning for longer rip cuts. A good table saw is a great option, but a track saw system easily replaces the need for an expensive table saw.
Another option to have handy is a handsaw along with a router. Or use a router along with a straight edge and clamps to cut a straight line. While not the best way to cut a board but is an option. The best use for a router is cutting shapes and cleaning up a wood edge.

If you want to create curved items, then you’re going to need a jigsaw also. Some woodwork enthusiasts like to top up their saw collection with a coping saw for detailed components. However, you can also get details into your work if you’re willing to have time and patience with a mallet and a few chisels. Hammers, screwdrivers, and other basic tools can be great when working on improving your skills.

Other Wood Furniture Extras

For additional “extras” to add to your live edge furniture toolkit, you can also think about power drills that you can use to combine pieces of your items. You might need some joinery gadgets too if you want to get into that aspect of woodworking. However, it’s worth noting that it does take a lot of time to get used to joinery. If you’ve already developed skills in hand-cutting your joints, then joinery gadgets might make things slower.
Other great tools to invest in might include a small workbench where you can focus on creating your pieces without putting your floor or dining table in danger and a good supply of clamps too.

Reclaimed and Salvaged Wood

Here at Littlebranch Farm, our reclaimed wood furniture is crafted using lumber that is cut into live edge wood slabs, used in our natural wood countertops and rustic dining tables, and root and stump bases, used in our rustic vanities, are all reclaimed and salvaged wood. This wood has seen some initial use prior to becoming rustic furniture. Much of this wood has been lying around since before the 1960’s. Some of the wood that we use originated as dead and fallen trees and now have a second life as rustic furniture. We’ve worked hard to responsibly source the wood that we use in crafting our custom rustic furniture.

Responsibly sourcing wood slabs

What does that mean, responsibly sourcing? The ICC defines responsible sourcing as “a voluntary commitment by companies to take into account social and environmental considerations when managing their relationships with suppliers.” We like to think of responsible sourcing as caring about the community that we live in and caring about the consequences of our actions inside of that community.

 Sourcing reclaimed wood

Even though this is obviously not sustainable, many companies in the United States source their materials in this fashion. We do not do this. We have chosen to only use wood that is native to the United States, thereby putting our actions toward building & developing the responsible wood market on our home turf. Can a company care for the community in which it exists, be environmentally responsible, and be successful? We think it can. We see business as a function of the community, as an opportunity for cooperation that can positively affect everyone.

Reclaimed wood furniture

Littlebranch Farm loves working with reclaimed and salvaged wood and being the leading source of rustic furniture in Nashville, TN. Why do we work with live edge wood in our custom reclaimed wood furniture? In addition to the value of community responsibility and environmental consciousness. Salvaged and reclaimed wood is the best material to work with and the best material for achieving our aesthetic goals. The unique qualities of this material are unlike anything else. Each finished piece of rustic furniture is designed and handcrafted with the purpose of celebrating the amazingly unique qualities different in every tree slab, log, root, or stump. We recycle wood from the forest floor and transform it into dining tables, rustic fireplace mantels, rustic vanities, and natural wood countertops for your home.

Salvaged wood

Forest data in the United States shows that “About 30 percent of the 2.3 billion acres of land area (745 million acres) in the U.S. is forest today as compared to about one-half in 1630 (1.0 billion acres). 300 million acres of forest land have been converted to other uses since 1630. Predominantly because of agricultural uses in the East. The forest resources of the U.S. have continued to improve in general condition and quality. Measured by increased average size and volume of trees. This trend has been evident since the 1960s and before. The total forestland acreage has remained stable since 1900.”