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About Me: Southern Carpenter- Jerry Carr

I owe much of my basic woodworking from my step grandfather. He owned Daytona Beach Millworks and had a workshop in Astor, Florida. When I was growing up, I used to visit him and he would let me work beside him. He, like me, was left handed which gave me the fundamental lessons on safety and tool operation from a lefty’s point of view.

What I lack in his blood DNA is overflowed with his spiritual DNA that keeps me building arts of wood that are one of a kind. Thanks Earl!!!

I started building projects that I needed for my own use around the house. As I continued working with wood, my love for it grew bigger and started producing pieces of furniture art soley visualzed in my mind. The blueprint of what I wanted embedded in the brain and all I have to do now is build it.

My collection of this furniture art is looking for a good home. I have an accumulation of “one of a kind” wood furniture/art that is functional and creates a unique statement.

First, I get inspired by a piece of wood and then create a way to incorporate other forms of art. I try to use non-native wood, whenever possible. This is my attempt to help Florida rid unwanted species and create a use for them. (see my current wood inventory for exact species). What I do, I create one of a kind furniture/art that is in my head.

What I don’t do, I don’t build custom pieces that you have a visual for. It is too difficult to have your idea transferred over to my visual brain blueprint and the outcome would not be the same. I build custom pieces that are blueprinted in my creative mind and go from there as I grab a chunk of wood and create the arts of work.

If you like what you see, there is a price beside the piece. Feel free to ask any questions.

Thanks for visiting the Southern Carpenter! Jerry Carr.

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01/18/2020

Woodworking is a Passion and Giving Up is not an Option

Many of my projects are not ordinary. Where one may know nothing about woodworking , or how it was made. The choosing of what wood you will use and mostly how you are going to design a project that I visualize and never had a plan except a doodle sketch that looks like a 3 year old drew it. Never having any woodworking lessons, it was a challenge. I loved woodworking so much that my internal thought design concept deeply embedded into my head. So how do I build a project that I have or never had a plan for? I call it a gift I’m thankful for. It takes a true woodworker to recognize the amount of time you’ve spent working on a project. Some would take weeks. Since so much furniture is fabricated all over the world in masses, those who have never been inside a woodwork shop underestimate the time spent building furniture from a slab of wood that was felled for the sake of new development , such as residential housing and stores. Pines, and many other species that end up in the mill shop where I procure the wood and stack the wood to air-dry under cover for many years. It’s always the piece on the bottom that you need and for that my tractor has come in handy. Being a woodworker takes patience and doesn’t always go the way you wanted it to. To have to reengineer a design that is rather complex and working out the mathematical equations on a project I’ve never built and designed. In the end, we get to the finish line and it’s on to the next project. Here’s to some of my projects over the years. The wooden chandelier is the newest and hanging in our kitchen with the dinette set made. I will never build a project twice. There will always be one! Never to be duplicated again.

Dining Room Table made from Swamp Mahogany

01/18/2020

Chestnut Wine Rack by Southern Carpenter

$195 Authentic Chest Wood Wine Beautifully made and one of a kind.  There is no duplicate.  The wood is  authentic Chestnut 32” wide, 20” high and 12” thickAuthentic Chest Wood Wine Beautifully made and one of a kind.  There is no duplicate.  The wood is  authentic Chestnut 32” wide, 20” high and 12” thick.

01/18/2020

Custom Woodworks by Southern Carpenter

I have always liked woodworking. For me it’s a creative outlet to be able to design something I visualize in my mind. There is no blueprint or design. It is based strictly on the type of wood I will be working with and the need for a piece of furniture or artwork that I want to build based on vision. There is so many types of woods. I do not build production made furniture. Each piece is unique in its own way and mastered with different kind of woods. I would like to thank Brady Sellars from Agri Timber who continually procures new inventory of trees that need to be harvested. The logs end up in the Wood mill and will sit for several months drying. In the end, the logs are cut into different size/dimensions. I can’t tell you what I will build after I finish a project. I do know that I’ve created very large scale woodworks. Dining Room Tables, Lamps, Dog Crate Furniture, Home Furnishings, Benches, Doors, and unique ArtWork .