No particleboard. No glue-only joints.

Furniture built the way a joint should be built.

Birch & Loom is a six-person shop in Millhaven cutting solid ash and white oak into through-tenon and dovetail joinery — no fasteners hidden under a veneer, no cam-lock hardware. Every piece ships with the joint that holds it visible, on purpose.

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The Catalog

Six pieces. Built the same way every time.

Tessellated triangle silhouette of a trestle dining table base in ink and chalk, single brick-red tile marking the through-tenon.

$2,400

Millhaven Dining Table

Solid white oak, through-tenon trestle base, seats 6

Flat rotated-triangle silhouette of a chair's back-leg and steam-bent rail, brick-red tile at the mortise joint.

$420

Aldergate Side Chair

Solid ash, steam-bent back rail, mortise-and-tenon frame

Tile arrangement forming a shelf bracket silhouette, dovetail cross-section picked out in brick-red.

$980

Corbel Shelf Unit

White oak, sliding dovetail shelves, no visible fasteners

Low console silhouette in mitred ink and chalk triangles, brick-red accent at the kerf-cut channel.

$1,650

Kerf Media Console

Solid ash, through-tenon legs, kerf-cut cable channel

Paired stool-leg silhouettes in rotated triangle tiles, wedge detail marked in brick-red.

$560

Foundry Stool, set of two

White oak, wedged through-tenon legs

Bench silhouette built from mitred triangle tiles, dovetail seat-rail joint in brick-red.

$890

Loom Bench

Solid ash, sliding dovetail seat rails, 54"

Four-week build time on every order. Ships flat-packed; the joints that hold it together are the same ones designed to knock down for the crate.

Materials

Two species. No substitutes.

We build from FAS-grade white oak and ash, sourced from a single sawmill in Correll County that kiln-dries every board to 7% moisture before it reaches the shop. No MDF, no plywood carcasses, no particleboard cores under a veneer skin. If a board doesn’t have the straight grain a through-tenon needs, it goes back to the mill — we’ve sent back roughly one truckload in nine.

9 / 1

Years in business / truckloads rejected

The Shop

Six people, one floor, no outsourced joinery.

Every joint is cut on-site by one of six joiners, each of whom cuts a piece start to finish rather than working a single station on an assembly line. Dovetails are hand-fit with a chisel after the router pass; through-tenons are wedged, not glued, so a table leg can be replaced in twenty years without replacing the top.

“A through-tenon you can see is a promise you can check. Glue you can’t.”
— Owen Halvorsen, shop founder

“I ordered the Kerf console expecting to wait the four weeks and maybe longer. It arrived in five, and the cable channel is exactly as deep as they said it would be.”

— Priya Anand, verified buyer, Millhaven Dining Table

“The wedge on my Foundry stools loosened after a move and I was able to re-seat it myself with a mallet in about ten minutes — no glue to soak out, no replacement part to order.”

— Marcus Dietrich, verified buyer, Foundry Stool

Care

Oil twice a year. That’s the whole routine.

Every piece leaves the shop finished in raw tung oil, not polyurethane — it can be re-oiled at home with a cloth in about fifteen minutes, and it ages instead of yellowing. We send a care card and a first refill with every order.

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Furniture built the way a joint should be built.

Six pieces. Built the same way every time.

Two species. No substitutes.

Six people, one floor, no outsourced joinery.

Oil twice a year. That’s the whole routine.

Birch & Loom — Solid-Joinery Furniture