The production process 

After checking out a string of joinery works and sawmills, I commissioned Timmerfabriek Visser of Zaandam in the summer of 2012 to machine the timber and produce the DamPlanks.

But things turned out otherwise …

I ended up doing most of the machining myself. A lot of the timber I had already purchased, although of good quality, was not entirely free of blemishes.

I began to preselect and mark out the wood, and from then on one thing led to another. The people in the joinery works, and notably Cor Visser himself, coaxed me into producing the DamPlank entirely on my own. So after starting with a circular saw I ended up learning to use a whole range of sawing and sanding machines and ultimately how to glue the part together. I stamped on the logo with a branding iron, fixed the sidepieces with brass screws and did all the finishing work by hand.

Right now I'm working on the fifth production series with help at the assembly stage from Alphen-aan-den-Rijn detention centre facilities.

After completion I always sand every DamPlank by hand myself before sealing it with several coats of grapeseed oil.