The Craft
Made by nerds in Bozeman, Montana.
The Astral Plane is a piece of furniture that happens to be intelligent. Solid American hardwood, cut and joined in Bozeman, Montana, and built to outlast everything we put inside it.
Eighty-six inches by forty-two. Seats up to ten.
Movement One
The Material
We chose hardwood because it’s the only material in the table that improves with age.
Veneer chips and laminate lifts at the edges. A solid top can be sanded back and refinished by whoever owns it in fifty years. The electronics sit behind it, where they can be reached and replaced.
Selected board by board.
One species and one grade per table, chosen before the first cut. No two tops share the same grain.
American Black Walnut
Cherry
Hard Maple
White Oak
American Black Walnut
Juglans nigra
Chocolate heartwood with a violet undertone, and pale sapwood left at the edge if you want it. The darkest surface in the house.
Rustic and Prime
Cherry
Prunus serotina
Arrives the color of honey and darkens for decades. The only one of the four that keeps changing after you take delivery.
Rustic and Prime
Hard Maple
Acer saccharum
Near white, tight, and almost grainless. Light reads off it the way it reads off paper.
Rustic and Prime
White Oak
Quercus alba
Open ray fleck, dead straight, and structural. The most architectural of the four.
Rustic and Prime
Two Grades
Rustic or Prime.
Rustic
Knots, mineral streaks and color variation stay in. You can see where the board came from.
Prime
Boards matched for consistent grain and color across the whole top. Quieter, and harder to source.
Both grades are the same table, built to the same tolerances. Only the look of the wood changes.
Bozeman, Montana
Built to order in our Bozeman shop.
Movement Two
The Making
From rough board to finished top.
Every top is selected by hand and built to order. Nothing is pulled off a shelf, and nothing is cut until the wood has settled.
01
The Board
02
The Mill
03
The Joint
04
The Finish
01
The Board
Rough stock is milled close to size, then left to rest so the wood can move before it’s cut to final shape.
03
The Joint
The trestle base is joined to the top with joinery meant to last for generations.
The Shop
Start to finish, in one take.
Yours will be the only one in existence.
One email the day the Kickstarter goes live.