Shop — ready-to-ship furniture and small goods
Commissions run sixteen to twenty weeks. Everything on this page is already built, finished and sitting on the rack in Building 3. Most of it leaves within ten working days of payment clearing.
These are prototypes, short runs and pieces made from boards too good to burn. Quantities are what they say they are. When a piece sells, the listing comes down.
In stock now
Each of these is a single object. Dimensions are the finished piece, measured with a tape, not the drawing. Prices include finish and are before New York State sales tax. Updated 4 February 2026.
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Three-legged ash stool — one only
$340. White ash, 18 in seat height, 13 in seat diameter. Wedged through-tenons, legs turned on the lathe, saddled seat. Hardwax oil. Weighs 7 lb. The last of a run of nine; the other eight went to a cafe in Rhinebeck.
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Cherry hall bench — one only
$1,480. American black cherry, 48 × 14 × 18 in. Drawbored mortise and tenon, no fasteners anywhere in it. Oil and wax. Cherry darkens; this one is about four months old and still pale across the top.
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White oak side table — one only
$620. Quartersawn white oak, 22 in tall, 16 in square top with a 3/8 in chamfer. Tapered legs, mitred apron. Heavy ray fleck on two faces of the top. Fumed and oiled.
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Walnut floating shelf, 42 in — two available
$395 each. Black walnut, 42 × 9 × 1-5/8 in. Blind steel rod mounting, hardware included, rated for 40 lb into studs. Sapwood stripe along the back edge on one of the two — say which you want.
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Maple step stool — one only
$260. Hard maple, two treads at 8 in and 15 in. Housed dados, glued and pegged. Unfinished on the treads so they stay grippy underfoot. Built as a shop stool, used for a week, never marked.
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Oak coat rail, 36 in — one only
$215. White oak rail with five turned cherry pegs, 36 in long, 4 in deep. Keyhole-mounted. Pegs are a deliberate contrast; they will go redder than the oak over a year or two.
Small goods
Offcuts from commission work, mostly walnut, cherry and white oak. We cut boards and brackets from them on the Fridays between glue-ups. These are made in batches, so they come back in stock rather than selling out for good.
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Walnut cutting board
$95. Edge grain black walnut, 16 × 11 × 1-1/4 in, with a finger groove on each end. Finished in food-safe oil and beeswax. Hand wash, re-oil every couple of months. Grain pattern varies board to board.
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Cherry candle sticks, pair
$70. Turned cherry, 7 in and 9 in, brass cups sized for a standard 3/4 in taper. Weighted base. Oil finish only — keep the flame above the wood.
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Oak shelf brackets, pair
$110. White oak, 9 × 7 in, bridle-jointed with a slim diagonal brace. Screws supplied for a stud fixing. Carry a 10 in deep shelf comfortably.
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Offcut bundle, 20 lb
$45. Mixed hardwood cutoffs — walnut, cherry, ash, oak, occasional sycamore. Pieces from 4 in to about 24 in long, kiln dried, mostly planed on two faces. For box makers, turners and anyone with a small shop. Collection from Kingston only.
Seconds and prototypes
Pieces with something wrong with them, sold cheaper because of it. We describe the flaw rather than photographing around it. All of them are structurally sound — we do not sell anything that will come apart — but none of them would leave the shop as a commission.
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Walnut nightstand — $540, was $880
Drawer front has a 2 in glue witness line on the left stile where the clamp slipped. Visible in raking light, invisible head-on. The drawer runs on wooden runners and works perfectly. 20 × 16 × 24 in.
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Ash dining chair prototype — $290
First chair from a set we later redrew. The back rake is 2 degrees shallower than the production version and the crest rail sits a little high between the shoulder blades. Comfortable for dinner, less so for three hours.
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Cherry wall cabinet — $610, was $950
A knot in the right-hand side panel opened up about 1 mm after finishing. Filled with clear epoxy, sanded flush, still visible as a dark lens. 24 × 8 × 30 in, one adjustable shelf.
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Oak coffee table, test finish — $720
We tried a hardwax oil we had not used before. It built up slightly uneven in two patches on the underside of the top. The show faces are fine. 44 × 22 × 16 in.
If you want more photographs of a flaw before you buy, email shop@mortiseandgrain.com and we will send them the same day.
Shipping, crating and local delivery
Furniture is crated by hand in the shop. We build a plywood frame around the piece, pad the corners with closed-cell foam and screw the lid down — nothing is wrapped in plastic film and left to sweat.
- Small goods
- Flat $14 anywhere in the lower 48, by ground. Two to five days.
- Furniture, Hudson Valley
- $120 within 50 miles of Kingston. We deliver it ourselves, carry it in and take the packaging away.
- Furniture, NYC metro
- $260, one room of choice, Tuesdays and Thursdays. No elevator bookings handled by us.
- Furniture, elsewhere
- Crated and freighted at cost. Typically $340–$900 depending on size and destination. Quoted before you pay.
- Collection
- Free, by appointment, 41 Cornell Street, Building 3. Weekdays 8am–4pm.
- Lead time
- Ten working days from cleared payment for crated furniture. Three days for small goods.
Wood moves when it changes climate. A piece shipped from Kingston in February into a dry apartment will shrink slightly across its width over the first month. That is normal and designed for; nothing will crack.
Returns
Stock pieces can come back within 30 days of delivery for a full refund, less the return shipping. They need to be in the condition they left in. Send a photograph first and we will arrange the collection.
Small goods, the same 30 days, but a cutting board that has been used is not returnable — once it has been washed and oiled it is yours.
Why commissions are different
A commission is cut to your dimensions in a species you chose. We cannot sell a 94-inch walnut table with your mother's initials under the apron to anybody else. So commissioned work is not returnable, and the deposit is not refundable once we have started milling.
What we do instead is show you the work before it is finished. You get photographs at the rough-milled stage, at dry-fit, and before finishing, and you can change your mind at each of those points while changing it is still cheap. The full sequence is set out on the Custom Work page.
I bought the second oak side table they listed as a prototype. The flaw they described was a glue line I have never once noticed in two years of living with it. Best six hundred dollars I have spent on furniture.
Dana Whitfield, Beacon NY
How to reserve a piece
There is no checkout button. Tell us what you want below and we will reply within one working day with an invoice, the shipping cost to your address and a date. A piece is held for 48 hours from that reply; after that it goes back on the page.
We take bank transfer or card over the phone on (845) 555-0162. Nothing ships until payment clears.
Nothing here the right size?
Most of what leaves this shop was drawn for one room. If you need a 7-foot table in rift-sawn white oak, that is a commission, and the waiting list currently runs to late June 2026.