Scroller Spotlight: Kendra Chura

Now, Kendra’s virtual shop boasts everything from custom signs and clocks to segmented portraits inspired by her rescue animals: goats, rabbits, even a sassy Great Bernese named Troy. She’s started incorporating more texture into her designs with a rotary tool, and includes epoxy any chance she can. She picked up a woodburner earlier this year and, as she often does, shared her learning process online. Her page is full of video tutorials on everything from scroll saw basics to creating stratus clouds with a heat gun.

“My very best friends are people I’ve never even met in person,” she said. Over the years, many of the woodworkers Kendra has met through platforms like Instagram and Facebook have become part of a system of mutual advice and inspiration that bridges physical gaps. Although Kendra prefers to work alone in the quiet of her shop (excluding visits
from the goats, of course), that system is always just a text or a message away. With the garage reno nearly done,
Kendra’s thinking of all of the perks that insulation, drywall, and a moisture-free attic will offer—namely, more space to
play with new materials, like hardwood, acrylic, and metal. All it needs is the final touch, a sign featuring the Kendra’s
Got Wood business logo—made from a rusty sawmill blade she found at her grandfather’s house. It patiently awaits its
turn in the corner. “If I see something with potential, I hang onto it,” she said.

Kendra is a regular contributor of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Magazine. Find her latest project, Spring Chicks Segmentation, in the pages of the Spring 2022 issue.