A third-generation woodworking studio building heirloom cabinetry, furniture, and architectural millwork from raised-grain hardwood — by hand, slowly, and only on commission.
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Six recent pieces from the shop floor — kitchens, libraries, vanities, dining tables, beds. Every joint cut by hand. Every grain matched before milling.
A heritage Rosedale home required a kitchen that would feel original to the 1908 build rather than a renovation laid over it. We milled the white oak ourselves from a single tree felled in eastern Ontario, hand-cut every dovetail in the drawer boxes, and finished every surface with hot raw linseed oil and beeswax. No MDF substrate. No metal cabinet box. No factory hinges. Eighteen months from the first site visit to install — and a kitchen the owners' grandchildren will use.
Cabinetry, furniture, architectural millwork, restoration, and turning — but we work in whichever discipline the commission requires, and never substitute material to save time.
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Built-in kitchens, libraries, vanities, and pantries in solid hardwood. Hand-cut dovetail drawer boxes, frame-and-panel doors, hand-fitted face frames.
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Dining tables, beds, writing desks, sideboards, chests. Commissioned individually, designed to your room and your hand, built to be passed down.
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Wainscot, paneling, mantles, stair parts, interior doors. We work with architects and interior designers on whole-home commissions across Southern Ontario.
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Period restoration of heritage cabinetry and furniture — original joinery techniques, historically appropriate finishes, no shortcuts.
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Custom turned spindles, table legs, bowls, finials, and architectural elements. Hand-turned on a foot lathe — never CNC.
A working shop palette. We source from regional sawyers who quarter-saw and air-dry — no kiln-blasted lumber, no exotic substitutes from across an ocean.
Juglans nigra
Tables · Vanities · Boxes
Quercus alba
Cabinetry · Heritage · Floors
Prunus serotina
Desks · Sideboards · Beds
Acer saccharum
Turning · Counters · Beds
Fraxinus americana
Chairs · Tool Handles · Turned
Swietenia macrophylla
Restoration · Panelling
Ulmus rubra
Live-Edge · Slab Tables
Juglans cinerea
Carving · Light Cabinetry
Fine joinery is slow work. We don't rush the timber, we don't subcontract the joinery, and we don't leave the shop until the piece is ready to live in your home for a hundred years.
IronGrove Joinery is a sixty-year-old hardwood shop on a converted dairy farm in Prince Edward County. My grandfather built the first benches in 1962. My father added the kiln and the lumber barn in 1989. I added the second floor, the foot lathe, and the open-bench apprentice program in 2014. The shop has never had more than six makers at a bench, and the wait list for commissions has rarely been less than a year.
If you visit, bring boots — there's a barn cat named Henry, three Bernese mountain dogs, and a 1947 SawStop that has cut its own bench dogs three times. We make coffee at ten and at three.
Every piece that leaves IronGrove is built by the same maker who sketched it with you. No assembly line. No outsourced finishing. Names on the bottom of every drawer.
Founder · Master Joiner
Third generation · since 1984
Senior Cabinetmaker
At the bench since 2001
Furniture · Wood Turning
Apprenticed 2015 · Maker since 2019
Restoration · Architectural
At the bench since 2008
Sketches, milling notes, finish recipes, and the occasional opinion on power tools. Written by the people at the bench — not a copywriter.
Materials · Featured Essay
A walnut credenza requires nine boards. The boards have to come from the same flitch, in the same order, mirrored across the centerline. A machine cannot do this. A spreadsheet cannot do this. We lay every board on the bench, walk away for an hour, come back, and rearrange until the grain reads as one piece of wood — because it nearly is.
Mar 14, 2026
Joinery
Fast joinery is failed joinery. A defense of the through-dovetail.
Feb 28, 2026
Finish
A finish recipe we've used for forty years and the reason we never sell unfinished pieces.
Jan 19, 2026
We take on roughly thirty commissions a year. If you have a piece in mind — a kitchen, a dining table, a built-in for a heritage home — write to us. We answer every inquiry personally, never with a form letter.
A working shop, by appointment, Tuesday through Saturday.
The shop is twenty minutes outside Picton, on a working dairy farm. There's no sign at the road — pull in past the second silo and we'll be at the bench. Coffee at ten, lunch at noon, tea at three.
The Shop · Year-Round
2417 County Road 8 · Picton, ON K0K 2T0
Tuesday–Saturday by appointment · (613) 555-0184
Toronto Office · Wednesdays
Consultation by appointment · Wednesdays only
(416) 555-0218