A workshop bench with cedar pickets clamped in a row, a hand plane, a square and wood shavings.
Get in touch

Call Donnie.

There's no order form and no shopping cart. There's a phone, and the man who builds the thing answers it.

Contact details

Phone
832-953-6234
Email
info@donwoodworking.com
Where he builds
Willis, Texas · Montgomery County
Collection
Pickup in Willis, arranged when you call
What to say

Three things and you're done

  • Which one you want — a wishing well ($350) or a picnic table ($450).
  • Roughly when you'd like it.
  • A number he can reach you on when it's finished.

If he's out in the shop with a saw running, leave a message. He calls people back.

A walnut-stained wishing well with wide pickets standing in a mulched flower bed against a wooden fence.
About Donnie

A firefighter who took up the saw.

Donnie is a retired firefighter. He's 77 years old, and he builds wishing wells and picnic tables in his own shop in Willis, Texas.

He does the whole thing himself — measuring, cutting, sanding, finishing, putting it together. One piece at a time, because that's the only way one man can do it and still do it right.

That's why there are two things on this website instead of twenty, and why the price is a number instead of an estimate. What you're buying is a careful man's own work, and you're buying it directly from him.

The phone is the whole system.

Wishing wells are $350. Picnic tables are $450. Everything else is a conversation.