Welcome to Rough Rustics

Salvaged and Reclaimed Wood Crafters

 

We are a small Kentucky Proud woodworking shop that got our start on Etsy.  We love "rescuing" and repurposing old wood.  All of our reclaimed barn wood is locally sourced, and our salvaged trees are storm-felled off our own land.  Most of what we bring home to the shop is rough-sawn oak from old tobacco barns, sheds, and haylofts.  What's so neat is we can often tell what the structure was used for when we first cut the wood.  We love every step of the process: the sawdust, old nails, holes, and rough-sawn edges, the silvery weathering of the wood over many decades, paint that was applied long ago by who knows what hands.  

 

Each piece of wood we bring into our shop, be it salvaged trees or reclaimed barn boards, has a story.  A story of countless years bracing against weather of all kinds, listening to the conversations (and complaints) of  farmers. And further back, a story of roots and branches and leaves, of changes of season, of first emerging through the soil to catch that first ray of sunshine.  If only we could know what each piece of wood has witnessed in its time on earth, what a story it could tell!