Solid hardwood, built by hand.
Walnut Wood Works is a family woodworking shop in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, founded by Justin Brady in 2010. We build custom butcher block countertops, floating shelves, and mantels from solid Appalachian hardwood — cut, glued, flattened, and finished by hand. No plywood. No veneer. Ever.
Who's behind the bench?
Walnut Wood Works was founded in 2010 by Justin Brady, a Tennessee woodworker who'd rather build one thing exactly right than a hundred things close enough. What began as a one-man shop is now a small team of skilled craftspeople in Bell Buckle — but every top, shelf, and mantel is still made to order, by hand, one piece at a time.
Justin and his wife Kathleen are both woodworkers, and their work has drawn attention well beyond the shop — from national television to design press. The standard hasn't changed since day one: solid hardwood, honest joinery, and a finish you'd be proud to hand down.
Where our work has shown up.
The kind of craftsmanship that gets noticed — on national TV and in the design press that knows the difference between solid wood and veneer.
HGTV — Property Brothers
Our work featured on Property Brothers, Season 7, Episode 3 — “Perfect Master Suite.”
Dwell
Justin & Kathleen Brady's craftsmanship featured in Dwell — “Two Carpenters Turn a 1976 GMC Motorhome Into a Woodsy Wonder on Wheels.” Read it →
How is each piece built?
Every order is built from scratch to your exact dimensions. Nothing is pulled from a stock shelf — lumber is selected and production scheduled per piece.
Solid Appalachian hardwood
Black walnut, white oak, hard maple, and mountain cherry — kiln-dried to 7% moisture for stability. Never plywood, never veneer.
Glued oversize, cut to the 1/16″
Tops are glued up oversize, then flattened, planed, and cut to your exact dimensions. CNC-machined cutouts, sealed before finishing.
4–6 coats, hand-rubbed
Natural oil (tung or mineral, food-safe), hardwax oil, or conversion varnish — sanded to 220 grit and hand-rubbed, cured before it ships.
Crated & tracked
Roughly 8–10 weeks, built into a plywood crate sized to your piece and shipped nationwide — every order tracked stage by stage.
Built right, or we make it right.
If a piece arrives damaged or not as described, we replace or repair it — 100%. It's custom work; we stand behind every board that leaves the shop.
Let's build yours.
Configure it, price it online, and we'll build it by hand in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.