Custom Wood Milling & Planing — Denver, CO

Denver Wood Slabs offers a range of custom wood milling and processing services for homeowners, woodworkers, tree companies, and builders. Whether you need a log milled into slabs, a wide slab surfaced and flattened, a matched set cut from a single tree, or thick stock processed for a mantel or stair tread, we can help — or point you in the right direction if we can’t.

We work with material brought to us by customers as well as wood from our own urban tree salvage operation. Our services include band saw milling, wide-format planing and surfacing, re-sawing, and sequenced or book-matched cutting.

Kiln drying for customer material is available on a schedule-permitting basis — we dry customer loads when we have space between our own inventory runs. Demand can be high and lead times vary, so we encourage you to inquire early if drying is part of your project plan.

Service	Capacity	Good for
Wide-format planing & surfacing	Up to 60″ wide	Flattening and surfacing slabs for dining tops, counters, bar tops
Band saw milling	Up to 54″ wide, 8″+ diameter, max 16′ length	Logs and cants into slabs or lumber at custom thickness
Thick stock milling	Custom thickness to spec	Mantel blanks, stair treads, live edge cookies, thick tabletop slabs
Re-sawing	Up to 54″ wide	Splitting thick slabs into thinner pieces, bookmatching
Sequenced & book-matched sets	Same-tree matching	Dining sets, bar tops, multi-panel installations, cabinet doors
Surface sanding	Up to 60″ wide	Ready-to-finish surfaces after planing
Kiln drying	Schedule-permitting	Customer material dried when kiln space is available — inquire early

Service / Equipment	Capacity	Rate	Min.
Wood-Mizer LX250 Band saw milling	Up to 54″ wide	$200 / hr	$150
Timberking 1600 Band saw milling	Up to 36″ wide	$150 / hr	$100
Outdoor planer Wide-format surfacing	Up to 60″ wide	$150 / hr	$100
Indoor surfacer Slabs under 30″, relatively flat	Up to 30″ wide	$125 / hr	$80
Blade / tooth damage Assessed at time of job	—	$40 / broken tooth $35 min blade damage	—

What we can’t process

To protect our equipment and produce the best results, there are a few things we’re not able to mill or surface:

Logs under 8″ in diameter

Material over 16′ in length
Wood with embedded metal — nails, screws, wire, or fence staples. If you’re not sure, a metal detector pass before drop-off is always a good idea
Chemically treated lumber — pressure-treated wood, railroad ties, utility poles, or anything treated with preservatives or pesticides
Heavily rotten or punky wood that has degraded past the point of structural integrity

Every project is a little different. If you have questions about your material or what’s possible, reach out before you load up the truck — a quick conversation saves everyone time.

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We are proud members of the Urban Wood Network, a national organization of urban wood industry professionals created to unite, promote, and demonstrate urban wood utilization.