About Us
DownHill Cutters is a family owned, small-batch, custom sawmill and kiln located in Darden, Tennessee, a short 90 minute drive west of Nashville. We search for oversized or unusually shaped logs that are not suitable for commercial mills to process.
While we love to process any of the beautiful hardwoods that grow in Western Central Tennessee, we’re a little partial to #2 logs of White Oak, Maple, and Walnut.
When Requested We
Custom process our own logs to customer specifications.
Custom process clients’ logs from slabbing to drying to surfacing.
Arrange for shipping, delivery, or client pick-up of finished material.
Taking dead trees and turning them into unfinished slabs.
Taking dead trees and turning them into unfinished slabs.
What We Do
Our Process
Harvest
We harvest local, fallen/unwanted hardwood trees.
Mill
We mill logs into specialized live-edge slabs or lumber.
Air-Dry
We stack and air-dry our lumber on custom made Air-O-Flow kiln sticks from Troy, Tennessee’s DHM Company.
Kiln Dry
Kiln dry using either the vacuum or dehydration kiln, or a combination of both.
High-Temp
Run a high-temp bug-and-egg kill cycle to ensure that our slabs are furniture-ready.
Finishing
Level and surface rough cut slabs to save time and effort for the furniture-maker.
A DHC slab, recently cut.
A Box Elder log waiting to be slabbed out by DHC.
Massive Red Oak slabs air dying before they go in the kiln.
Oak log slabbed out and ready to air dry.
Some Beautiful Finds
A DHC Red Oak slab nearly finished for a live edge table.
A DHC Black Walnut slab turned into a desktop by our friends Sawdust and Whiskey in Nashville, Tennessee.
A massive Oak charcuterie board DHC made for a client.
Contact Us
Do you want to discuss your project, buy ready wood products or ask a question? Send us a message or give us a call.
We Look Forward to Creating a Piece of Your Story for Generations to come.
Address
Darden, Tennessee
+1 (731) 733 0950jerry@downhillcutters.com