Scott Wilson Carpentry

Trudy’s Table

Column bases turned from mahogany to replace some old rotted ones on a Lexington bungalow.

I’ve had this piece of maple leaned cluttered against the shop wall for five years, waiting for the proper project. When Rhonda came to ask about an altar piece for her daughter’s wedding, I looked over her shoulder and said, “How about this one? It has about everything you’d want in a stick of maple: ambrosia beetle markings, bird’s eye figuring, and a beautiful curl. I think it’d make a lovely cross.”
The base of out of black cherry, turned on the lathe.

White oak ladder custom built for Susanna’s off grid cabin.

Here is the first in a series of vessels I’ll hope to turn from the Kentucky Coffee Tree we salvaged last week from Henry Clay’s Ashland estate.