WOODWORKING & FINISH CARPENTRY · ASHFIELD · EST. 2018
The quiet work: doors, trim and shelves that disappear into the house.
Bone & Grain is a one-bench studio for the woodwork you stop noticing because it is right — doors that close like a book cover, casing that meets the wall, shelving that looks built-in because it is.
One carpenter · Lic. FC-52908 · Ashfield and the valley · 340 doors hung since 2018
What we do
Three kinds of quiet
Doors that close like a book
Hinged, eased and tuned until the latch catches at a finger’s weight. Pocket doors that stay in the wall, passage doors that stay square, and hardware from any century made to work like this one.
Trim that meets the wall
Casing, base and crown run with coped inside corners and caulk lines thin enough to miss from the sofa. Paint-grade mostly; the occasional oak room, when the house asks for it out loud.
Shelving that looks built-in
Alcove cases, window seats and plate shelves cut to the opening rather than to the catalogue — the difference between furniture standing in a room and woodwork belonging to it.
Services
The index
01
Passage & pocket doors
Hung, eased, latched and guaranteed to a nickel-slide — including salvaged hardware nobody else in the valley will touch.
02
Casing, base & crown
Full or partial runs, coped at the corners, finished clean and ready for your painter’s best coat.
03
Alcoves & window seats
Cases and benches cut to the opening, with storage where the room needs it and none where it does not.
04
Small repairs, done properly
One sagging door, one cracked casing, one wobbly newel. Bookable half-day visits — no job too small to do well, because the small jobs are where the libraries start.
Ashfield and the valley
Recent quiet
2024 to 2026, photographed on the last day of each job. Nothing staged, nothing graded.
We had four bids for the alcoves. Bone & Grain was the only one who measured the room twice and the books once. The shelves are exactly deep enough, and the house feels bigger.
The small ledger
Why one carpenter?
Because the bench is the business. A second pair of hands would let me take bigger jobs, and bigger jobs are how the details get delegated. The waiting list exists so the standard never has to move — you always know whose hands are on your door.
How small is too small?
It is not. A single sticking door is a booked half-day visit with a fixed price. The small repairs are how most of the libraries and alcoves in the portfolio started — fix one door well and the whole street hears about it.
What is the waiting list like?
Doors and repairs usually land within two weeks; alcoves and trim runs run four to six. If your calendar is tighter than that, say so at the measure and I will say honestly whether mine can bend — it usually cannot, and you will know immediately.
Do you paint or finish?
I install, fill and caulk for your painter. On stain-grade I finish myself — three coats, hand-rubbed, flat at the bench — because a finish applied to a hung board is a guess, and a guess is not the quiet work.
Write to the bench
One carpenter, one measure, one honest calendar — and the small jobs are welcome.