Hi There!
Thank you for stopping by my online store!
I’d love to take just a minute to introduce myself and tell you a little bit about my products and my creative process.
My name is Jenny and I am a woodworker in Louisville, KY. Although I specialize in wood mosaic art, I build everything from large built-ins to free standing furniture to small home décor items.
I use many different species of woods throughout my pieces. I buy most of my domestic lumber rough from a local sawmill and I buy the exotic woods online. I strive to make each and every piece unique and top quality. I do not mass produce but instead make each piece one at a time and pay careful attention to every detail. I only make one of each, so they are all truly unique pieces. Many pieces that I make I sell online, in stores, and at Art Fairs around the country. I also do some commissioned work. If you do not see something you like, or you would like something I have in a different color or size, just send me a message and we can create a custom piece just for you!
Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my products and please let me know if you have any questions or commission requests.
Some of the tools I use in my wood shop!
Scroll Saw
This handy little machine is the work horse of my shop! This tool has a nice, deep table top that is used for supporting the wood or material that I am cutting. If you look very close, you will see a very tiny vertical blade that moves in an up and down reciprocating motion. This tool is perfect for cutting curved lines, ornamental fretwork, tiny details, marquetry, and in my case tons of letters and designs!
Here is an example of the scroll saw in use! I print out patterns or words and then adhere them to a substrate (wood, mdf, plywood) using spray adhesive and contact paper. With many many hours of practice, I then follow the template lines with the tiny blade and cut out all kinds of designs!
Chop Saw
This tool is also known as a miter saw and is typically the very first tool I turn to when making any hardwood furniture or boxes. The majority of my lumber is rough when I buy it. Many of the pieces are over 12 feet long and often up to 12” wide. I use the chop saw to break these larger boards down into more manageable sizes or rough cut pieces closer to what their final length and widths will be.
Jointer
This tool is usually the second stop for a piece of lumber after I have rough cut it to size. The purpose of this tool is to aid in getting one face and one edge of my rough lumber flat. This is a very critical step and is also sometimes one of the first glimpses of what the actual grain looks like within the wood. Here, I have a set of blades that spin within the table, I run the piece of wood over top of them and it creates a perfectly flat face. I then flip the board up on one edge and ride the edge along the fence over the blades to produce one perfectly flat edge. Now I have two good sides to work off of to make the rest of the piece completely square and flat.
Planer
After the jointer, I typically find myself at the planer! This tool allows you to take that flat side of the board that you just created at the jointer and make the opposite side perfectly parallel to that! This is crucial in making a board the same thickness throughout the entire board. It also can act as a thicknesser. If a board is a little too thick for your purposes, you can run it through the planer to make it as thin as you need it to be.
Table Saw
The Table Saw is one of the most used and most versatile tools in my shop. I use it for not only sizing wood but also to help cut joinery, create inlays, create decorative edges and details within pieces, and many other things! But here, I am taking that piece of wood that just left the planer and making the edge parallel to the flat edge we created on the jointer. I use many different types and sizes of blades to produce higher quality finishes. This particular brand of tablesaw is unique in that it has a feature called “flesh sensing technology” built within the saw. Basically it has a break system with the saw that can detect if your finger or hand gets too close to the blade and it will almost instanteously release a break cartridge within the saw that will immediately stop the blade….and save your finger!!
Bandsaw
The bandsaw is perhaps the most overworked tool in my shop! There are so many uses and benefits of this tool! I love this tool so much that I actually have two bandsaws! I have one set up with a massive blade on it and I only use it to resaw wood….basically as you can see in the picture, it cuts wood into thinner pieces. I use it to cut my own shop sawn veneer as well as cut wood in half or thirds to create book matched larger pieces of wood. The other bandsaw is set up with a smaller blade and I use it to cut curves as well as rough cut pieces to different sizes.
Wide Belt Sander
This sander makes quick work of sanding lots of parts quickly! I have many different types of sanders within my shop but this one can definitely handle just about anything I throw at it! It’s basic purpose is to sand out any mill marks from the other power tools I use before I start using hand tools on the pieces.