Cahill Woodcraft and Design

Welcome. My name is Nicky Cahill and I live at Orchard House in Tinahely, Co. Wicklow. I do woodcraft and design because I love to work with wood, any wood.

I work mainly with beech, ash, sycamore and oak. Beech has a beautiful grain that runs through the wood and it’s ideal for things like clocks, lamps and mirrors. Ash on the other hand has a beautiful creamy white to pale straw and reddy brown colour. It ages very well. Sycamore has a smooth lustrous white to pale yellowish hue, occasionally with a tight fiddle back figure. Oak has a light tan to biscuit colour with distinctive grain patterns. It weathers to silver grey in a year if left untreated. Oak is a strong beautiful wood and many of the wooden ships and churches that remain today from hundreds of years ago are constructed primarily of oak.