Each slab has a story.
Your home is the next chapter.

Oh, the tables you could make…

(Or we can make them! Project commissions are available upon request.)

  • russian olive slab

    Russian Olive

  • black walnut slab

    Black Walnut

  • silver maple slab

    Silver Maple

  • paper birch slab

    Paper Birch

  • apple slab

    Apple

  • manitoba maple slab

    Manitoba Maple

  • Douglas Fir

  • norway maple slab

    Norway Maple

  • ponderosa pine slab

    Ponderosa Pine

  • white walnut slab

    White Walnut

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It’s happening again! Silver maple.
Mr. Pratt almost touched the sky. He’s the only one that saw the sun today on our crew.
Maintenance tip of the day. If you have a stuck oil filter, don’t get frustrated. Just beat the shit out of it until you’re blue in face!
We’re hiring! Throw away your gym membership and come work with Sand Creek Tree Service. Lots of exercise, fresh air and competitive compensation.
Sometimes Russian olive.
I met this guy Jorge in Patzcuaro MEX several years ago during a day of the dead trip💀. He was making these really cool hinges and handles out of steel. I bought a bunch and kind of set them aside for a rainy day. Well, it started raining a few week
About seven years ago we removed a dying walnut tree in Hope. It’s been air drying ever since and we have finally been able to work on some slabs. This is an example of a headboard and matching waterfall bench we made out that tree.
This larch came off a job site in October. Today finds us happy to have brought it home. Tight grain like that is a carpenter’s dream.

The Process…

 
silver maple log for slabs

A giant and decaying silver maple en route to its next incarnation.

silver maple slab grain

The same silver maple, its history now laid bare.

It’s a quite a journey from tree to slab, and ushering it through the process is not for the faint of heart. Getting a technical tree on the ground may take days all by itself. Then there’s the puzzle of loading, hauling and unloading large chunks of wood, followed by milling, years of patience required for proper drying, and then slab flattening. We do it because a tree’s interior holds so many secrets. We do it because the deeper we go, the more we learn. We do it because it’s oh-so worth it.

Slabs rooted in place…

Tyler and Jen Quintano began Sand Creek Slabs as an opportunity to give North Idaho’s trees back to the community. In their work as arborists at Sand Creek Tree Service, the Quintanos must often remove stunning sentinels of Sandpoint’s storied history—walnuts, maples, cherries and elms—that have become too large or old to remain standing. The grain of these trees is the fabric of this place, woven with decades of snowpacks and summer squalls, sunlight and freezes, soil and decay. To revive the wood as a surface on which to live, kindles a greater communion with the landscape we call home.

Dreaming of a Table-to-Be?

See a slab you like? Have questions about what we might have in the hopper? Want to schedule a tour of our slabs and log yard? Please reach out. We’re happy to meet for a tour of our offerings, helping you to find the exact piece that will make your house a home.

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