Garden & Gun June/July 2012

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June 27, 2012 by landrumtables

BY CHRIS DIXON – JUNE/JULY 2012

Giving new life to old wood

At first glance, the jumble of vine-covered wood outside of Capers Landrum Cauthen’s modest workshop appears good for hiding fire ants and rattlesnakes, and that’s about it. It’s not until you step, gingerly, into the stack’s perimeter that Cauthen reveals the treasure hidden in plain sight: a slab of thousand-year-old black cypress bearing the swirling cut marks of a long-defunct sawmill. “And this is an old fence post from Gun Bluff Plantation out on Edisto Island,” the forty-two-year-old owner of Landrum Tables says, brandishing a four-inch-thick column that will soon be shorn into four fine Hepplewhite legs. “See that rough, crazy-looking old piece over there? Horses chewed on it. That will become the skirt of a coffee table.”  click to read more.