Every commission moves through the same seven stages. Most clients are surprised by how much of it happens before a saw is even turned on.
We start with a long phone call or a visit to the studio. We talk about how the piece will be used, where it will sit, who else lives in the house, and what woods you respond to. No quotes are written until this is done.
Hand sketches and a written estimate follow within a week. If the budget needs adjusting, we revise the design — not the materials.
You are invited to the shop to walk the lumber racks. Every board we consider for your project gets laid out on the floor. You pick the personality.
Rough boards are jointed, planed, and acclimated to the room they are going to. For larger slabs, this can take two to three additional weeks.
Mortise-and-tenon and dovetail joinery is cut by hand and fit dry before any glue touches the wood. Photos are sent at this stage.
We use food-safe walnut oil and pure beeswax on most pieces, and a hand-rubbed shellac on finer casegoods. No spray booth. No polyurethane shortcuts.
Within 150 miles we deliver and place every piece personally. We tighten the bolts, level the legs, and walk you through care.
Sourced from a family sawmill in Yancey County. Air-dried for twelve to eighteen months. Rich chocolate heartwood with a creamy sapwood line that we work into the design rather than cut away.
Local Madison County cherry that ambers beautifully in sunlight. We finish it bare so the wood can do what cherry does — get more interesting every year for the next forty.
Quarter-sawn for stability, rift-sawn for clean grain. Most of our oak comes from reclaimed barn beams or storm-fallen trees in Buncombe County.
Tight-grained northern hard maple for cutting boards and butcher blocks. The only wood we bring in from outside the region, and only because cutting boards demand it.
Heart pine pulled from 19th-century mill buildings across western North Carolina. Dense, resinous, and full of nail holes we choose to leave in.
For accent pieces and one-off commissions. We hold these slabs back for projects that earn them — a coffee table for a couple's anniversary, a writing desk for a retirement.
$65 – $240
Hand-planed end-grain boards, salt cellars, rolling pins, and serving trays. Most ship within three weeks.
$650 – $2,400
Reclaimed and new-milled mantels in white oak, walnut, or heart pine. Cut and finished to fit your fireplace surround.
$2,800 – $9,500
Trestle, pedestal, and four-leg designs in walnut, cherry, or white oak. Ten to fourteen week build time.
By estimate
Bookcases, sideboards, beds, and architectural built-ins. Site visit required within 100 miles of Weaverville.