Koa wood milling for a table

Two rainy retreats ago, Kumarnathaswami and Adi Srikantha milled a first batch of Formosan Koa logs. Continuing several rainy days later Acharya and Brahmanathaswami milled the remainder of all that will be needed, and then some, to build this a table for the cedar room. It's a trestle table designed by the famed Stickley brothers in the early 1900s. The creative top is the brainchild of Paramacharya Sadasivanathaswami, fancy medallions and all.

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s the stack at the millsite.'

A close look at the wood. These pieces are for the wide trestle bases.

On the trusty mill.

What fun!

Here is the wood stacked in our now nearly empty Library Container, as of last retreat, equipped with dehumidifier and a big fan to dry the wood much faster than out in the field.

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