Grown and Made in America

Custom Sawmill and Kiln Service - Darden, TN

Specializing in solid wood slabs, locally sourced, live-edge, kiln-dried lumber.

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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

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Custom process our own logs to customer specifications.

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Custom process clients’ logs from slabbing to drying to surfacing.

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Arrange for shipping, delivery, or client pick-up of finished material.

Current Inventory

Taking dead trees and turning them into unfinished slabs.

Current Inventory

Taking dead trees and turning them into unfinished slabs.

What We Do

    We look for the largest, gnarliest logs we can find.
    We cut the logs to reveal their most beautiful grain-figure
    We maximize usable lumber

DownHill Cutters is a family owned, small-batch, custom sawmill and kiln located in Darden, Tennessee

Call Us!

+1 (731) 733 - 0950

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.

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A DHC slab, recently cut.

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A Box Elder log waiting to be slabbed out by DHC.

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Massive Red Oak slabs air dying before they go in the kiln.

Oak log slabbed out and ready to air dry

Oak log slabbed out and ready to air dry.

Some Beautiful Finds

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A DHC Red Oak slab nearly finished for a live edge table.

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A DHC Black Walnut slab turned into a desktop by our friends Sawdust and Whiskey in Nashville, Tennessee.

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A massive Oak charcuterie board DHC made for a client.

Products and Projects

DHC Poplar and Oak slabs
Freshly cut Black Walnut slabs ready to air dry
DHCs' Husqvarna 6' chainsaw mill used to make cookies and cut slabs for clients before DHC purchased our Mahoe sawmill
A load of slabs going into our iDry Standard vacuum kiln

A load of slabs going into our iDry Standard vacuum kiln.

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An Oak slab sanded and stained ready to become a table.

A freshly cut Red Oak slab ready to air dry

A freshly cut Red Oak slab ready to air dry.

A freshly cut Black Walnut slab ready to air dry

A freshly cut Black Walnut slab ready to air dry.

A freshly cut Black Walnut slab ready to air dry

A freshly cut Black Walnut slab ready to air dry

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

Owner/Operator, Jerry Cox, shows a Red Oak slab which will be used to make a table