Duncan Legate founded Bough & Burr to allow him to pursue the joy in creating beautiful objects with his hands and a few simple tools.
“I can still vividly remember the moment I got hooked, carving the rails of my first hollow wooden surfboard with a spokeshave. Taking the roughly hewn edge and forming into a gently flowing curve, one pass of the plane at a time. The spokeshave is still my favourite tool.
Woodworking has almost become a meditative practise for me – chasing the singular focus of cutting joinery in pursuit of the flow state – which is the pinnacle of creative energy and something I had only found before through surfing. A state of mind where you are completely in the moment and intuitively reacting to what is in front of you rather than consciously thinking about it.
The focus of my craft is working with natural or live edge timber. The raw nature of large slabs of timber force you to embrace the imperfections inherent in the timber. My minimalist attitude towards design is based on the my ideal to reinforce the connection with nature, between tree and furniture, its past lift and the new life I am able to provide it.”. Duncan Legate
