The Fenland Black Oak Project

The Fenland Black Oak Project aims to transform the “Jubilee Oak,” a 42-foot long subfossilised Black Oak tree discovered in 2012, into a single, impossibly long table.

It’s difficult to describe in words what this means or even looks like. I’d encourage you to take a look at the project site, to get a sense of the scale of the tree. This photo is perhaps the best example of just how large this tree really was.

There’s a ton of fascianting information on the project website, including background on the tree itself as well as the specific steps involved in making the tabletop.

So far, I’ve enjoyed reading about the process to join each of the incredibly long planks together into a single slab using river joints.

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