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Real Wood Studios
Real Wood Studios is a collectively owned workshop, showroom, sawmill and timber merchant, specialising in the creative use of locally sourced native hardwoods in the Scottish Borders. Borders Forest Trust was involved in the founding of the project and maintains a shareholding, encouraging and promoting the use of locally sourced hardwood timber. Real Wood Studios is based next door to the BFT office at Monteviot Nurseries, near Ancrum.
Since 1996 Real Wood Studios has been designing and making contemporary bespoke wooden furniture for private and commercial clients. Working individually or collectively the designer-makers produce a wide range of pieces - including dining tables, chairs, fireplace mantles, cabinets and coffee tables. Larger projects are also undertaken including bespoke wood kitchens, reception desks, stairs and internal joinery projects.
Real Wood Studios process and sell FSC Certified Scottish hardwoods, including oak, ash, elm, beech, birch, sycamore and yew, all sustainably sourced from the local area. Other species and select softwoods are available to order including holly, hornbeam, larch and Douglas fir. Products include a range of hardwood flooring, architectural mouldings and exterior cladding. The Woodmizer LT40 Mobile Sawmill is available to hire on or off site at hourly or day hire rates and timber manager Keith Threadgall can also machine timber to order for home projects.
Real Wood Studios grew out of Woodschool, which was established by Tim Stead in 1996 to address the economic restoration of our local woodlands and to act as a demonstration of best practice for timber utilisation in the Borders and beyond. Now being run by its members as a non-profit distributing enterprise, Real Wood Studios is collectively owned and run by craftspeople for craftspeople.
To find out more, call Real Wood Studios on 01835 830767, email info@realwoodstudios.com or visit the website www.realwoodstudios.com
