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Commission a Custom Live Edge Table

I'll personally review your project and reply within 3 business days with slab photos, design options and preliminary pricing.

No cost to ask. No obligation.

Every piece is one-of-one, built around the slab: functional art.

Commission a piece of functional art

Cam Anderson (Blacktail Studio), supporting Black Walnut Studio, LLC

The most influential live-edge furniture, introducing Black Walnut Studio, LLC for MakerBook’s new “Meet the Maker” series.

Cam Anderson has spent years teaching live-edge furniture on camera. Millions of people watch him work on Blacktail Studio YouTube channel. He founded Makerbook.io to connect independent craftsmen with serious buyers — and until now, he’s never personally introduced another maker’s shop.

Grateful for Cam’s recognition of Black Walnut Studio, LLC.

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How I work

Every piece is handcrafted in my Madison, Wisconsin shop.

  • The design begins with the tree. I find the slab first, then build the piece around it, by hand.

Custom Live Edge Tables

  • Dining | Conference Tables

  • Office & Living Room

  • Coffee Tables & End Tables

A rectangular wooden table with a natural live edge and visible wood grain details, set against a dark background.
A rectangular wooden table with a natural live edge and visible wood grain details, set against a dark background.
Close-up of a polished wooden surface showing natural grain patterns and warm reddish-brown tones.
Close-up of a polished wooden surface showing natural grain patterns and warm reddish-brown tones.
Close-up of a wooden table with a natural finish, showing detailed wood grain and knots, against a dark background.

Burnt Ember - Bastogne Walnut Executive Desk

This executive desk built from a single slab of Bastogne walnut that survived a fire. The tree stood in the Pacific Northwest for eighty to a hundred years, and somewhere in that life a fire reached it — close enough to scar it, not close enough to take it down. The char still runs along the crook of the wood, dark and permanent: a record of what the tree lived through before it ever met a saw.

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Meet the Maker - featured on MakerBook

At Black Walnut Studio, LLC, I build one-of-a-kind live-edge furniture from Pacific Northwest hardwoods — Bastogne, Claro, and Oregon black walnut. Because out there, the trees grow bigger, and the weight presses figure into the wood: fiddleback, marbling, color that shifts in the light. Most people have never seen wood like this.

I look for the slabs with character — wild grain, a crack, a live edge — and build the whole piece around it, so it becomes the quiet focal point of the room. A desk, a dining table, a conference table, made once and built to outlast its owner.

That's what I mean by functional art, and every piece begins with the slab.

A man wearing a gray cap and gray t-shirt working on a large piece of black walnut wood in a woodworking shop.
A man wearing a gray cap and gray t-shirt working on a large piece of black walnut wood in a woodworking shop.

MakerBook featured BWS, as their first in a new Meet the Maker series. Read the full feature on Makerbook