Raw Heartwood
About Raw Heartwood
Raw Heartwood is a sawmill and woodworking shop in West Chicago, Illinois, in DuPage County. Garrett Magnusson opened it in June 2019. The shop saws logs from Chicago-area trees that had to come down, mostly from arborists, tree services and storm cleanup crews, then dries the lumber in a vacuum kiln to 6 to 8 percent moisture content. It saws walnut, white oak, cherry, osage orange, hard maple, soft maple, red elm, American elm, box elder, pin oak, sassafras, beech, ash, larch, locust, pine and eastern red cedar. It also mills logs that customers bring in, does CNC routing, builds custom furniture, and sells Odie's Oil and Ecopoxy. Its own words sum up the idea: "saving beautiful trees from the mulch pit." It serves the entire Chicago metropolitan area. Garrett Magnusson holds a Bachelor's in Environmental Studies and worked as a park foreman for years before opening the shop. Visits are by appointment only, so send a note first. Raw Heartwood suits a Chicago-suburb landowner who has a tree already down or coming out and wants the logs sawed and dried into boards for their own project. From rawheartwood.com, read 9 November 2026.
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