If you live around here, from St Louis City all the way out to St Charles County, you’ve driven through beautiful old neighborhoods with towering Oak trees that stretch their branches, overtopping the biggest houses and reaching majestically over the street. And if you’ve lived in one of these neighborhoods […]
Read MoreUnited Provisions
Check out the new United Provisions at 6241 Delmar Blvd (the loop), St. Louis, MO….and all the Rustic Grain barn wood.Rustic Grain had the pleasure in creating all the barn wood used in the new Global Foods location. United Provisions is owned by the same family behind Jay’s International Food Company […]
Read MoreCraftsmanship: History and Future
When looking at furniture, people often come back to the word craftsmanship, as an intrinsic value they want to see imbedded in the objects they use. In this age of mass production, where wood is shipped from the US to Asia only to be returned to us as an overly […]
Read MoreA Mix and Match Juxtaposition
“Hey, can you make a coffee table?” That’s what they asked me and off I went. I knew I wanted something that made ready use of the existing dimensions of our inventory. The idea was to make as few alterations to the wood as possible. Then there was one other […]
Read MoreGetting Started with Wood Working, Part1: Marking
So you want to get started working with wood, that is a good thing because there is plenty to go around. I see people in my neighborhood tossing wood out by the dumpster all the time. Since Rustic Grain up-cycles the wood we use; this is the resource I recommend, […]
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