De Groot Creations - Bespoke & Unique Carpentry

De Groot Creations - Bespoke & Unique Carpentry I create bespoke hand made furniture or artistic pieces in the Wollondilly
region of Sydney Australia. My work is unique, inimitable, exclusive and exquisite.

I work with native timbers & turn them into unique one-of-a-kind items.

Fancy cuttting board. I made this board as a challenge for the local men shed as I have never made anything this compli...
05/09/2026

Fancy cuttting board. I made this board as a challenge for the local men shed as I have never made anything this complicated before. If you look close enough, you will see the mistakes I made, e.g. the dark lines and where they were supposed to be. Anyway, I learned a lot from this first one and when I make an other one in the near future, hopefully there will be less mistakes.

Japanese entry gateThis gate is installed in the same garden where I build all other Japanese timber items. This gate wi...
14/08/2026

Japanese entry gate
This gate is installed in the same garden where I build all other Japanese timber items. This gate will separate the garden and the entry to the main home from the general public. The gate took 35 hours to manufacture and install. The gate is made from the same pink oak that the deck railing was made from, see previous pictures. You will be able to see in the pictures how it all came together. The main construction “problem” was that the customer wanted to have this made completely the Japanese way by using tenon and mortice, domino connections and dowel pins to hold everything in place and together. This meant that no nails or screws where to be used. It also meant that even more than normal, the measurements had to be absolutely spot on, otherwise it would not fit together as planned. The gate also had to blend in with all the other items in the garden which is why the top of the gate was shaped like a Torii Gate. The internal frame was based on the deck railing and the remaining structure to be similar to the deck construction, heavy and strong, the grate in the bottom part of the gate was similar to the main garden entry gate. In the end, there were 3 screws used to hold the top of the gate (Torii style) in place as it was bowed down and there was no other way to keep that in place. The only way to achieve this was to steam the plank and bend it into a permanent mould. I do not have those facilities in place unfortunately. The whole structure was bolted in place into the concrete footpath. The gate was lacquered 3 times with Norglass microshield gloss finish. The centre pieces and the braces onto the concrete were treated, primed and spray painted with matt black paint. The whole process was time consuming and required a lot of concentration but it was a challenge I was looking forward to and enjoyed throughout but…I was glad when it was finished and installed.

I restored this chair from the 50ties, it was damaged due to having been submerged in a flood inside a hotel near Lismor...
20/04/2026

I restored this chair from the 50ties, it was damaged due to having been submerged in a flood inside a hotel near Lismore. After pulling the chair apart I had the metal mechanism sandblasted before I could restore it, it was too hard to try and clean it by hand. After that, the mechanism was given a coat of rust preventitive, a coat of rust free prime and two layers of black gloss paint. The frame/base of the seat was still in good condition but as you can see, not the seat itself, I removed that first. I then reapplied 3mm thick ply back on it with glue only, you can see all the clamps I had to use to ensure I maintained the shape of the seat and then added a layer of oak veneer on top. The edges were also covered with oak veneer. After that, it was a lot of sanding to clean up all the timber parts. When that was done, there were still a lot of stains on the timber so I used a mix of water and oxalic acid to wash the timber with and this cleared up all the stains. Now it was time to stain the timber to get close to the original colour of the chair and I used Cabotts walnut stain for that. You can see in the pictures what a difference this made. The next stage was to assemble the chair again, fill in the screw holes with oak plugs I made myself, sanding flat again and restain the entire chair again. The final stage was to lacquer the chair with Cabotts water based sating lacquer. You can see the end result in the pictures. Let me know what you think. P.s. the chair is for sale and no reasonable offer will be refused. 😇

I promised you the pictures of the Torii Gate when it was installed into the Japanese garden I helped build. All carpent...
02/04/2026

I promised you the pictures of the Torii Gate when it was installed into the Japanese garden I helped build. All carpentry you see here is made by me. There is still some work to do here and that will be started on soon. You will find out what that is when it is done, soon-ish.

My friend had some old speakers that required some love and tender care. I offered to repair them for him and he agreed....
06/02/2026

My friend had some old speakers that required some love and tender care. I offered to repair them for him and he agreed. You can see in the first picture, what both speakers looked like before I started. I had already started to clean up one so I can't show you the damage on both but you get the idea. You can also see some of the damage in the next two pictures. After that, you can see the different stages of the repair. First I had to remove the old glue from some cheap veneer that they had used in the past to try and fix them. Then I had to sand them back down, carefully as the original veneer was very thin as well. Next step was staining and lacquer, the lacquer I used was a "wipe-on" and this took 5 coats with some very fine sanding in between. The vinyl over the front was quite a big challenge as the lip was very small and since I could not get the front of the speaker off, I could not fold the vinyl around it but had to cut it in place. This was one heck of a headache as I had to do one of them 3 times before I finally got it right. I do think, in the end, that they came out quite well.

Address

Bargo, NSW

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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+61432371765

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