Monkwood Slab Dining Table
You Choose the Tree, or Does It Choose You?
We build our slab dining tables from domestic American trees. You can choose one from our selected stock, or we can find one together that speaks to you. The process reveals a lot about what matters to you, and it becomes a story you can tell to those you gather with around it.
The slabs are flattened, and cracks are treated as features, addressed with care for the whole. The edges are tamed only where needed to fit the room. It is then finished with hardwax oil and arrives like a new member of the family.
Sometimes this process makes us wonder if the tree knew where it was going all along.
Contact Monk for custom sizes, woods, bases and finishes — every piece is made to order.
Features
- single-slab tops from domestic American trees
- choose from our stock, or we source one with you
- cracks and character addressed as features, not flaws
- edges tamed only where the room requires
- sizes from 5 to 16 feet
- hardwax oil finish
Specs
- 72w x 34d x 30h, sizes from 5 to 16 ft
- sizes vary from 5–16 ft
Wood
- Urban elm — from $7,750
- White oak — +$750
- Black walnut — +$950
- Claro walnut — +$1,750
Contact us for a custom quote. We'll find the perfect slab for you and create something epic.
Custom sizes beyond this list are available — contact us for a quote.
Other wood species available on request — get in touch.
Contact Monk for custom sizes, woods, bases and finishes — every piece is made to order.
- Timeline & Payment
- Shipping
- Wood Care
Custom Premium Timelines are 2-3 months from payment.
You can pay in full at checkout if the build you want is here. You will be contacted as things progress.
If you want to reserve with partial payment, get in touch and we'll set it up as 60% down — which secures your place in the seasonal building schedule — and 40% plus shipping on completion, once you've approved the finished photos.
Shipping
Freight is quoted by the width of the piece.
- 30–39w" — $450 fully insured crated freight, inside delivery to garage · $750 full service white glove
- 40–60w" — $750 fully insured crated freight, inside delivery to garage · $1,150 full service white glove
- 61–94w" — $950 standard insured freight, liftgate and placed inside garage · $1,450 full service white glove
- 95" and over — quoted per piece
Standard freight includes full value insurance and a custom-made crate with an easy-open side hatch.
Full service white glove adds inside room delivery, base assembly, and removal of the crate and all packaging from your premises.Solid wood moves. Every piece is built from solid hardwood, not veneer or engineered panel, and solid wood responds to the room it lives in. It expands slightly in humid months and contracts in dry ones. Our joinery is designed to allow that movement rather than fight it — breadboard ends, floating panels and bolt-on bases all exist for this reason. A hairline seasonal gap that opens and closes is the material behaving correctly.
Day to day. Wipe with a soft dry or barely damp cloth. Blot spills as they happen rather than letting them stand. Skip anything with ammonia, bleach, silicone or wax polish — silicone in particular builds a film that makes refinishing difficult later. Use trivets under hot dishes and something absorbent under anything wet or sweating.
The finish. Hardwax oil, not polyurethane. It sits in the wood rather than on top of it, so the surface still feels like wood and repairs invisibly — a scratch can be spot-treated without stripping the whole top. Refresh high-use areas with a light coat of hardwax oil when the surface starts to look thirsty, roughly every year or two on a dining table, less on a desk. We'll tell you exactly what we used on your piece.
Reclaimed and salvaged wood. Nail holes, checks, insect tracks, old bolt scars and color variation are the record of where the wood has already been. We stabilize anything structural and leave the rest. No two pieces are alike, and photographs of one build won't predict the exact character of yours.
Sun-tanned poplar is poplar left in the California sun until it turns honey and chocolate — a color change in the wood itself, not a stain. It will continue to deepen slightly for the first months in your home, then settle.
Steel bases. Blackened steel is a chemical patina, hand-finished and sealed. Raw sealed steel keeps the mill surface under a clear coat. Both wipe clean with a dry cloth. Avoid abrasives, which will cut through the seal.
Built to be repaired. Mortise and tenon joinery, bolt-on bases and an oil finish all mean this furniture can be taken apart, refinished and put back into service decades from now. That's the point. If something ever needs attention, contact us — we'd rather fix it than see it replaced.