I have a symmetrical burl from a spruce tree that I cut in half to make a table. The cracks in the burl were filled with epoxy tinted black, and left to cure. Then the epoxy was sanded to a high sheen. The desired look was to represent water flowing off the top of the burl, like a waterfall, down to the base and away.

Alderfer Lumber began in 1993 in response to the increasing demands of local landowners for an alternative method of harvesting trees. Owner and founder Randall Alderfer hitched up his team of horses, Harry, Larry, and Jedd, and went to work. Logging with horses proved to be a very marketable idea. In 1996 Randall’s brother John joined in the business and together they began manufacturing their logs into lumber. Soon they were getting requests for kiln-dried lumber and invested in their first dryer. Since then, Alderfer Lumber in Mt.