Custom Made Log Cabins , ideal for use as a  Home Offices, Garden Studio's or a Home Bar. Made to measure and to suit our customers needs.

Our Log cabins are not flat packed, and are made to customers exact specifications. We source all our materials in Ireland. We work with our customers to provide a tailored service which meets the highest standards.

We make all our Log Cabins on site using products bought in Ireland. There is no long delays on lead in time.
Made in Ireland using high quality, pressure treated wood, PVC glass windows and doors, PVC gutters, and high quality tile effect roof cladding.

Our Custom made Log cabins offer an quick and affordable additional space to any home.

Processing a tree 

We love nothing more than wood turning a bowl, platter, mug or candle holder here at Clover Woodcraft. Our process sound quite simple we take some wood and turn it into something beautiful for your home or as a gift.
What a lot of people don't realize is the length of time it takes to do this work. It can take anywhere between 1 and 5 years to dry timber to the correct moisture content without a kiln depending on a number of factors, including if the wood is a hard wood or soft wood and the time of the year it was felled. Currently we do not have access to a kiln and prefer to work at more natural pace, a kiln would improve drying time but it also increasing cracking and splitting as you are forcing the wood to dry. We at all times try to achieve and enhance the natural beauty of our

We try to sourced for raw material as sustainable as possible form fallen trees, storm damaged our dangerous tree we have been asked to remove. At Clover Woodcraft we process our own timber from trees, and have been commissioned to make items from tree removed from peoples gardens and businesses due to sentimental value.
We start with a large piece of timber normally a log which needs to be processed. We next cut the wood into smaller planks of wood to make it easier to work with. For this step we use a chainsaw, cutting the wood between 1 and 9 inches in depth depending on size of the tree and what we would or our customer might like use to make with it. Thinner boards will be using for chopping/ serving platter , mirrors clocks or as table tops etc. Deep cuts of wood will be used for wood turned bowl, mugs, platters and ornaments.

We then seal the end grain of the timber to slow the drying process and stop the wood from cracking and splitting.  We also remove the pit wood during this process again to deter splitting and cracking where possible. We normally leave this timber outside to dry depending on the time of the year and size of the log. Smaller piece can be placed in our storage area inside our workshop where air is allowed to circulate to help in the drying process. 
Once the timber has reached a moisture between 20 and 30% we will mark the wooden planks and map out what size wood blanks we will be able to achieve from the timber. We try our best to use as much of the wood as possible at this stage and not be wasteful. We mark our wood turning blanks out with templates and are able to maximize the amount to wood we use by marking each round out clearly.  Where the wood has cracked or split we asses the timber and see is it safe and possible to continue to use this piece in our process. If the splitting is minor our the wood has naturally occurring voids which is not detrimental we will continue working on crafting a piece into something beautiful.
We cut all our own wood turning blanks to round shapes to use on the lathe. This process is done on a bandsaw and is an essential part of our process rounding the wood to make it safer to turn on the lathe. By cutting our own blanks we can predetermine with size and shape of our wood turned bowls. While this part of the process is time consuming it is vital to our business and allows us to plan future designs as our wood turning business grows. We also have more control over the designs we would like to stock.

Wet turning green wood. 

At Clover Woodcraft we like to twice turn or product's once when the wood is green which is also called rough turning, we roughly shape the bowl leaving the walls about 1 inch think. This process is also called wet turning as the moisture can be quite high in the timber. Wet turning can sometimes see the timber move, crack or split as the moisture leaves the wood. Depending on the moisture and wood we sometime seal the end grain of the timber to slow the drying process.
We leave our timber to dry naturally at this time to reduce the likely cracking and splitting.
The bowls sit in our outdoor storage area during this process. They are move inside to allow the final drying process to begin when the moisture level is below 15%.

The finished touches are completed on the lathe:

When the wood has reach optimum moisture level it is time to finish the bowl again on the lathe to give a smooth round even finish.

It is much harder to turn well seasoned timber and requires sharp chisels and gouges. We regularly sharpen our tools on a diamond blade sharpening system.  We would reduce the thickness of the bowl walls at this stage and include designs, these could include beading our burning the wood to enhanced its features. All this work is completed on the wood turn lathe.


We generally sand all out products to an extremely smooth finish, before finishing with a food safe oil. 

 





  

Rustic Octagonal Gazebo and Custom made Swing Chair. 

During the pandemic and while our country was experiencing lock down we used our time to make some stunning custom garden furniture all from timber we had stock piled in the yard. 

For this project we use pine logs, some milled pine , spalted beech and some pine live edge boards to make the bar's, wooden shingles and additional bench. It took a real team effort to get this project completed, a lot of hours have went into these projects but we have really enjoyed the fruits of our labor during the unseasonably good weather we have had in Ireland over the last few months.

The Rustic Wood Design Octagonal Gazebo

A wooden gazebo had been a project we had been hoping to complete for a very long time. We already had the granite table and bench installed in the garden we decided a rustic natural octagon shaped gazebo would be perfect to complement the colour of our table.
To start this project we laid out the support joists to identify where we need position the upright support logs. We choose long straight logs about 12 feet in length and of similar girth and dug holes roughly 18-24 inches deep to set the logs in a permanent position. Next up we placed the wall plate, roof joists, and rafters making sure these were all laid out correctly and square. To top it off Mick turned a few plant holder on the lathe later that evening.





Day two we worked on the bar installation,3 in total again we used some pine from the stock pile, we cut logs and shaped them with chisels for a tight flush finish between the post. Plenty of sanding to give a smooth splinter free finish. We hate to waste good timber so we made a bench out of some cut off we had left over from the support logs which is braced against one of the bars. Not a bad days work. 
Then came the painstaking slow days of shingle making. It was suggested we make these by hand using a froe but we decided on the quicker option of running them through the saw. And are we glad we did it took 4 days into total to make each of the shingles a slow and steady pace finally saw the gazebo near completion. Laths were cut to size and the roofing commenced each shingle was nailed into place. We used a burning technique to weather proof the shingles along with multiple coats of oil.
We were so glad to complete this job as a family and have spent many a summer night enjoying a BBQ or a few beverages. 

Rustic style Swing Chair.

The gazebo hadn't been finished a wet week when a suggestion was made to make a match swing chair. So off we went again unpacking the tools we needed for this project, and searching our supplies for some straight logs.

We decide on the classic A frame design, scribing the logs at the interlocking section flush together, this increased the strengthen of the project. A slightly curved cross bar was fitted snuggly to the frames with some bracing added for additional strength.
The seat frame was made of solid timber which we had in the workshop cut into an L pattern, we finished the seat with some spalted beech rounding the edges for comfort. We used a heavy gauge link chain and some metal pipe straps to attach the seat to the frame. This provides the smooth swing motion and is also handy if you wish to remove the seat and store it during bad winter weather.

Unique Irish Wood Turned Gifts made by a small local business. One of a kind Irish Designer wooden gifts for every occasion.

When we started Clover Woodcraft, we never realize how much we would learn and appreciate working as a family to complete our beautiful products. Our small Irish business is growing, and we are enjoying working on the lathe and passing the tradition onto the next generation. 

We are passionate about wood turning using Irish grown timbers, to uncover the beauty behind the bark when making our Irish designer products. .

We make our products from storm fallen or damage trees. All our products are processed in or workshop, on the borders of Co Kildare, Carlow and Laois. We are lucky to have the space to allow use to store large tree trunks, before processing them into wooden blanks for wood turning or planking them for bread boards. We prefer to let our timbers to dry naturally which can take over 3 years in some cases depending on the time of year the tree was felled. 

Above we have a varied selection of Irish grown sustainable sourced timber. We also try where possible to replace what has been been removed and regular plant trees in our own garden. Our own garden features Ash, Elm, Oak , Horse Chestnut , Apple, Pear , Cherry ,Holly And Sycamore Trees. 

We are able to provide traceability on our wood turned products as we generally process the timber from tree to finished products.

Working with Native wood to produce designer Irish Gifts made by an Irish wood turner. 

We worked with native Irish Hardwood including  Ash, Oak, Horse Chestnut, Sweet Chestnut, Beech, Hawthorn and been luck enough to have use Bog Oak in some of our designs. We have also used Pines, Alder, Popular, Cherry, Apple and Irish grown Cypress wood in our products. We love working with natural sourced materials and have also incorporated deer antler into some of our designs.

Wood Turned Tankard.

Over the years we have enjoyed making Wooden Bowls, Platters, Mirrors, Clocks, serving Boards, Tapas Boards, Mugs, Tankards, Salad server's, Lamps Guitar stands and Candle holders. 


No two items are the same making them truly unique gifts. Some of our most popular gifts are Pizza Boards and Cutters Gift Set, Cheese Lover Boards and Knife Gift Set , Personalised Shot Glass Tray, Bakers Handmade Rolling pin, Handcrafted Tankards and Salad Bowls and utensils.

Please keep an eye on our store , as these items generally sell out quite quickly.



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