The second of two olive ash and reclaimed mahogany creepies that were made specially for the Glenkinchie Distillery Christmas Fayre. This one is two staves of olive ash with a mahogany stave sandwiched between, and mahogany skirts.
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Olive Ash and Mahogany Creepie (#11)
With the Glenkinchie Distillery Christmas Fayre on the horizon, I finally was able to use up some of my olive ash offcuts to make more creepies. I was also gifted some old mahogany tables from which I was able to reclaim some lovely coloured pieces that I could use for the skirts.
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Creepie Variations on a Theme (#9 and #10)
A pair of creepies commissioned to bring back memories. It's the first time that my furniture has caused the customer to burst into tears and give me a hug. 🤗
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Olive Ash and Elm Creepie (#8)
A lovely wee creepie in stunningly figured olive ash with elm side skirts. 200 yr old ash from Dumfriesshire and 40 yr old elm from the foot of my garden. Birch pegs. Finished with Osmo hard wax-oil. Approximate size 420 L x 175 W x 220 H. Nb: The National Museum of Scotland website has a nice wee article about creepies if you would like to know more about this furniture type.
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Live Edge Yew Creepie (#7)
Something different this time and a departure from my last few creepies. I have had some yew lying around for quite a while and I had roughly milled it into broad planks about a year ago but I hadn’t worked out what to do with it. The planks are narrow, tapered, full of typical yew irregularities such as voids and bark inclusions and with very funky live edges. Yew is well known for its bright orange colouring and wild grain patterns and because I had matching planks I went for a book-matched top on the creepie with mitred edges to let the patterns flow over the side and down to…
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Another Chocolate Creepie Please (#6)
Commissioned as a 5th “Wooden” Wedding Anniversary gift, I was asked to make a creepie using my Scottish olive ash and walnut using some of my previous design elements, and so I decided to do another chocolate creepie.
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Stripy Oak and Beech Creepie (#5)
In May I found that my shelves were stuffed (more than usual) with offcuts and leftovers of wood. I didn't want to throw them out, I didn't want to burn them, and I didn't want to make another chopping board - so I decided to stick them together and make a stripy creepie.
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The Chocolate Olive Ash Creepie (#4)
Continuing the design theme from my third creepie my next creepie was made from olive ash and walnut. The olive ash was milled by me direct from the tree at the start of 2021. To highlight the stunning olive ash the entire top of the stool was made from ash and the walnut sides were placed underneath. I call this the “Chocolate” olive ash creepie because of the amazing brown colouration in the wood. As a reminder – this type of wood is normally rejected by timber merchants as it is just too wild both in colouration and grain direction. Only local specialist sawmills would retain this sort of timber.…
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Oak and Walnut Contemporary Creepie (#3)
Wanting to have three different styles of creepies, my third creepie may be described as more contemporary.
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The Emmental Creepie (#2)
Taking a possibly blasphemous approach to the original Scottish vernacular creepie stool, I decided to make this one full of holes in the side skirts and legs.
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My First Creepie (#1)
My first creepie used some beautiful Scottish rippled ash and was bordered by olive ash wings. The legs were perpendicular to the body with a key-hole shaped cut-out. Wooden pegs were used and the top had a rounded finger-hole in the centre.
