Scott Wilson Carpentry

Trudy’s Table

Last two bowls I’ll turn this year!
Grown, like me, in Fayette County, Kentucky!!
Cheers to 2024, friends far and near!!

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.

Finished up a series of ten bowls from trees and limbs that blew down on the Ashland Estate of former U.S. Senator Henry Clay. One of the trees dated 184 years old. From two Kentucky coffee trees I turned six bowls, one from a Norway Spruce, one from Cherry, and two from the limb of a Black Maple that still stands tall on the north lawn. These will be for sale in the gift shop on the grounds. I’m honored to be a little part of the long history of
this beautiful spot in my hometown.

Set up was early this beautiful morning here in downtown Lexington at Tandy Park for the Farmers Market. I’ll be here hawking bowls until noon. Lots of beautiful veggies, flowers, and artwork!

Custom built in bunk beds for an air bnb on Lake Cumberland. Three full mattresses and one king.

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.

A hand made live edge honey locust bowl to celebrate the holy days. Good tidings to friends far and near, and a happy wassail, too!

Fresh off the lathe! A large bowl of Kentucky black walnut, soaking up the sun.