Birch Burl cross section; sanded with forest images added with pyrography. Returned to owner after work was completed.

Left: Spalting Birch bowl. Ref.Guardian Lean 19

Right:Spalting Birch bowel. Ref: Guardian lean 20

When photo was taken the wood had been oiled but later a polymer resin coating will be applied to the inside to make it waterproof and fully food-safe.

Spalting Birch Canister with Black Walnut lid. Inside finished with polymer finish which has been "rubbed out". Ref: Guardian Lean 12

Left: Black Walnut chest made as a custom order. Birch wood blocking around base, leather strap fasteners. Ref: Helfrick Chest Walnut

Right: Spalting Birch Vase with purpleheart neck. Ref: Guardian Lean 16

Lrft: Spalting Bich canister with black walnut lid. Inside finsihed with polymer to make it water resistant and food safe. Ref: Guardian Lean 14

Right: Spalting Birch bowls. Interior finsihed with polymer finish and "rubbed out". Ref: Guardian Lean 18

Spalting Birch bowl with natural edge.Four views of the same bowl. Inside and out finished with polymer finish and "rubbed out". Ref: Guardian Lean 15

Left: Custom Cremation urn in birch and black walnut; Buck head with pyrography. Name added to top lid. Right: Spalting Birch bowl. Two views of same bowl. Ref: Guardian Lean 13

Left: White Spruce plate with borwn aniline dye border. Howling wolf is a burned image in pyrography. Inside finished with polymer finish and "rubbed out" Ref: Cordovan Wolf Howl

White Spruce plates with brown aniline dye border and images added with pyrorgraphy. Inside finished with polymer finish and "rubbed out". Ref left: Cordovan Bears. Ref right: Cordovan Goose

White Spruce plates / shallow bowls with Cordoban Red Aniline dye patterns. Insides of bowls finished with polymer finish to make it a very durable and food safe finish. The three to the top and right are 9 inches in diameter. The remainer of the plates illustrated are 12 inches in diameter and are finished in the same manner.

Left; Bottom plate, Right; cover piece over plate.

White Spruce platter / canister with Walnut handle on lid. Finished inside and out with polymer finish to make it tough and food safe. 9 inches in diamter.

Spalting birch from Guardian Tree. Diameter 10.5 inches and 6 inches high. Colours are somewhat less intense than the vase above, but more distintive spalting patterns make this very special. Ref: Lean 8.

Spalting Birch bowl with very thick walls and a lid. The third piece from the Guardian Tree. This item has vivid greens and yellow patterning as well as rich, dark browns and blacks. Ref: Lean 9

Vase with Cordoban Burst patterning. Wood is Spruce and the grain of the wood interacting with the cordoban dye application made for a really interesting pattern. 9 inch diameter by 8 inches high. Ref: Spruce Cordoban 1.

I was getting short of quality boxes and decided to make a few more. Shown here are a series in Black Walnut. Some feature the simple beauty of the Black Walnut wood grain, and others have been enhanced with the insertion of a red cedar, birch and walnut strip insert.

Left:"Resurrection Cross"  He is not here; he is risen as he said... Lk.   8 " X 12" X 1" cross depicting an empty space ... on the cross or an empty tomb.  Made from Friendly Forest Spruce wood, grain texture created by brushing out the softer  wood and highlighting the  hard grain.  It was then dyed with a brown analine dye, and polished with paste wax.  It comes in a special presentation gift bag with a card explaining the significance of the image. Ref: Resurrection Cross

 

Small birch wood stool with pyrographic images on the top.

Left: Seven birch "Memory Boxes"; Outside Dimensions 4" high X 13.5 inches long and 9.5 inches deep. Lid and ends are contoured. The two ends have continuous grain pattern with the lid. Lid secured with full width hinge. Saskatchewan Birch wood finished with 4 coats of Varathane Wiping Varnish. Can be personalized on request.

Left: ref: Birch MB1

Right: Ref Birch MB3

Left: Birch MB4

Right : Ref Birch MB5

Left: Ref Birch MB6

Right: Ref Birch MB7

Birch and Black Walnut Memory Box / Chest with frieze of aspen leaves encircling the box. 22 X 14 X 13.5 . Leather strapping and snap closures. Finished with Danish Oil and then surfaced with satin lacquer.

 

Birch bowls were turned when wood was green and on drying the bowls took on an oval shape. The interior is coated with poly resin to give it a very durable and food safe interior. Can be washed but should not be left in water. Approximately 10 inch diameter.

Left: Four bowls made from one irregular cut piece of apple wood provided by a friend. All pieces are finished with bees wax. Right: Shallow bowl from widest end of board ( 6.5 inches in diameter and 1.5 inches deep)

Left: From the deepest and narrow end of the board I made this small canister with a lid from Bloodwood. Right: Next to narrowest and deepest part of wood piece; the heartwood is a dominant feature here contrasted with the milky sapwood

Left: Next to widest and of medium depth, this bowl is showing the intrusion of the heartwood onto the piece of wood.

Thank you for the wood Laurent!

 

Right : Birch and Padaiuk woods in a serving tray. Leaf images are of plaants from Friendly Forest. I made this tray for my own use. Ref: Geralds
Tray

Birch with Wenge and Padauk ribbon insert. This box has three inside layers with two lift-out sliding trays. This unit is one of a series of four which differ in grain pattern. These are currently only finished with a sealer coat of polyurethane and can still have decorative images / names burned into the wood. The bottom layer will also be covered with a layer of jewellery box flocking. Ref: Padauk Ribbon Layer Box

Right: Birch box with two narrow ribbons of African Wenge. This box has a 13.75 X 6.25 inch interior. Outside height is 3 inches. This is f an unfinished unit. This is one of a series of 5. Ref: Wenge Birch Banded Box

Left: one of these boxes with aspen leaves burned on the surface. Not yet completely finished but this provides an idea of how the simple style can be transformed with some pyrography added.

Right: Pair of Black Walnut and Birch Cremation Urns. Each has an open compartment at the top to hold personal items that a client wants to keep with the Cremains. The wood has been cut in a manner that has a continuous grain flow around all four corners. Ref: Rampart Urns

Additional views of one of the pair of Rampart Urns

 

Left: Ref: Guardian Bowl 5

 

Right: Birch bowl; 12" diameter with natural bark on side. Ref: Guardian-4Bowl.

Left: Spalting Birch Vase, 10" diameter. Ref. Guardian 4 Vase.

 

Box Elder/ Manitoba Maple wood bowl with bark on.  9 inch diameter. Finished with polyurethane and lacquer.

Ref: Bowl- Ina-3-

Left:  15 " Diameter Black Walnut plate / platter.  Pressure ridge grain pattern.  Ref: Pressure Ridges 2

Right: A piece of pressure-stressed birch wood turned  into a 10.25 inch diamter plate.  Ref: Birch Stress Plate

 

Right: Cherry Plate. Ref. # : 2389 PL

To left:  Teak and African Wenge box.  Ref # GR2317 - GR2319

This Cherry Plate is not finished and only shows  raw wood.  It await inspiration and time to bring it to completion.

Left:  9 inch birch  plate / bowl with eagle  image burned into wood.  Ref: #: 2386 PL

Right: 9 inch diameter cherry plate.  Wolf howling image burned into plate Ref. ,2387 PL,

Left:  Birch bowl with cordoban dye on surface. Again, a simple gold strip  adds a separation between upper and lower  spaces.  Ref. #: 2380BL

Right: 9 inch cherry plate with goose and gosling image burned into the wood.  Ref:2388PL

Spalting Birch bowls.  Nature's  own  patterns in the wood. L-R Ref #:2381 BL,  2382BL

Shallow bowl / plate in birch wood.  Images burned into wood and finished with varthane to preserve blond character of the wood.  To the Right, the same, providing an edge view

9 inch diameter  Ref. #: 2377PL

Birch platter / canister. 12 inch diameter.  Handle  is Walnut wood.  Leaf images  with pyrography (wood burning).  Bottom of platter finished with poly-resin to make it fully food safe and stain / water resist. (Ref # 2347CN)

Willow, bark-on vase, walnut neck (Ref # 2338 VA)

 

Left:  Vase in Nogal.  Blank was glued up  1 inch boards Ref # 2339 VA)

Right:  Walnut plates, 8 " diameter, Poly-resin coat on face to make food safe and water resistant.

(Ref # 2327 PL - 2329 PL)

Birch platter N o. 1 , lid on.  The lid can be inverted to also act as a serving pedestal  tray (Ref # 2331 CN)

Birch platter No. 1 lid opened

Birch bowl with bark on edge 12 Inch diameter

Ref # 2358 BL

Birch Bowl with bark No. 2 Ref #2359 BL)  Interior finished with poly-resin

Items illustrated below this bar are sold or  were a custom order.  Although not available for purchase similar items  can be ordered  and if possible, will be made as a custom order for you.

Box Elder / Manitoba Maple wood vase.  9 " diameter.  Finished with polyurethane and Lacquer.  Pyrography decoration added to top.  Not water-proofed so for potpourri of dry inserts only . Adding sand and  decorative dry branch would made for a good still-life piece.  Ref: Vase-Ina-1-

Spalting Birch vase with African Wenge throat. This is one piece from a tree that I had called my "Guardian Tree." Dark browns tending to black and more subtle shadings of green and yellow make this a real beauty. Ref: Lean 7.

Rotation images of an Aspen burl bowl. Wind knocked over a large Aspen and when I was removing it from the trail I noted a burl growing on the side. I salvaged it and was able to create this piece. 8 inch diameter. Ref: Aspen Burl 1

Left: Ref Birch MB2

African Walnut with a Birch and Padauk ribbon inserted into the wood. Sliding, lift-out tray is of cherry wood. Botton interior and exterior have been finished with Jewellery box flocking. Ref: Nogal K .

Birch bowl from "Guardian Tree" 9 inch diameter.  The wood had started to "spalt". Finished with polyurethane and lacquer.  Ref: Birch Bowl-Guardian -1-

 

To the Right is another plate with  Friendly Forest plant images superimposed by a Sacred Hoop image.  The process of adding the images to this plate is  illustrated  in several photos on my Wood and Shop Page. ,Ref #: 2390 PL

Left:  Hoop Plate with just the plant images burned into the raw wood.  To the upper right is the finished version.

Left: Cremation Urn, Custom Order; Black Walnut with Walnut, Birch and Red Cedar band. Three inch deep storage space under hinged lid for special items. Cremains secured in lower portion above screwed-on base.

Birch wood platter with integral centre bowl. Platter is 15.6 " diameter. centre bowl is 5.5 " diameter. Cordoban and black aniline dye burst and finished with poly-resin interior. Ref. Cordoban Burst 1.

Left InipiWolf -2.  This version  superimposed on a Sacred Hoop image. All are on birch wood plates.  , Right: Inipi Wolf 3

Although each image comes from the same  basic outline, they have taken on differences during the wood burning process.  I used a black and white photograph of Wolf to make these images.  Each seems to have taken on its own life in the images.

Custom items: Left, Birch memory box with turtle image added to lid. Sold. Right: Custom chest with name and wheat stalks added. Black Walnut with birch block pattern around bottom perimeter. Sold.

Birch and Wenge accented box prepared for High School reunion . Aspen leaves, pine cones and chokecherry images on lid.

Left: I usually keep a limited selection of Cremation Urns in stock. They are a variety of woods and styles and can be customized as was the case with the one shown on the left. The uusual style is similar to this one and has a storage area under the top to place personal objects / mementos that people wish to keep with the ashes. Although I prefer advance orders with specific requirments, this is not always possible and is the reason I do keep some units in stock. However, that means slection is also limited.

Memory Box Chest, custom order item. Birch and Black Walnut. L 22 X W 13.5, H 13 inches. Name and leaves in pyrography. Leather strapping with snap closures, full length hinge

Spalting Birch bowl with deep "fold-over" rim; 11" diameter. Ref: Guardian-2Bowl

 

Right: Stylized leaves with berries on birch wood plate (16 inch diamter, 1 inch deep).  Ref: FF Leaves -2

 

Left: Black Walnut box with Bircdh and Cedar insert; Eagle ghead image on lid. Right: Inipi Wolf 4

Left: All five "Pastry Essentials" displayed side by side.

Right: Spalting Birch and Purple heart vase

Making gift packages: Box of knotty cedar with baltic birch top and bottom panels. Rolling pin of birch wood ( 12 inch length), and pastry cloth 20" X 20" medium weight unbleached cotton canvas fabric. Left: three components. Right box lid closed to show top panel. Panel image of Friendly Forest flora burned into wood and finished with varathane. Cedar is finished with Teak Oil.

Left, rolling pin and pastry cloth nested in box. Right; Pastry Essentials 1 complete.

Left: Pastry Essentials 2

Right: Pastry Essentials 3

Left: Pastry Essential 4

Right: Pastry Essentials 5

Birch Platter No. 3.  Nogal handle doubles as a base for inverted lid which can serve as a pedestal  platter on its own (Ref # 2332 CN)

Birch wood with cordoban burst on outside surface.  Simple gold  strip adds a stabilizing element to the "movement" of the  colour pattern . Ref # :2383 CB  SOLD

Larger version of the birch bowl illustrated above.  Creating these colour effects requires  a combination of experience, luck and the application of the laws of physics, as well as a few strategic bursts of lacquer spray  at the right time in the right place. Ref. #:2379 CB

Left: Knotty Cedar wood cabinet ready for delivery to customer. Corners are dovetail joints and teak oil was applied as a finish. Panels and shelf were laminated using biscuit connectors and glue. This was made to customer specifications for a special application. Ref: Cedar Cabinet

Right: Cordoban burst on rim, finished with poly-resin interior 15.5 " diameter. Ref. Cordoban Burst 2.

Nogal wood with birch and Padauk insert ribbon with custom images added to lid. Bottom interior has been finished with black suede flocking material.

The sun is the source for the goodness and energy found in our crops

Right: Custom tray in Birch and Padauk woods. Images of wheat and parkland flora. Tray bottom finished with a layer of poly-resin which has been cured and "rubbed out" as a finish, aming it fully serviceable and nearly indestructable. Ref: Clarke Tray

Saskatchewan is a land of plain and forest lands. The plains have been converted to farms and wheat is the iconic grain though its share of the ecnomy has been greatly reduced in favbour of other crops such as canola or lentils.

Left: Ref. Guardian Bowl 6 SOLD

Right: Sold Birch Flange with Aspen leaves. 14" diameter, centre bowl 5" diameter Ref. Birch Flange 1

Left: Reserved Spalting Birch vase with purpleheart wood throat and base; 11 " diameter. Ref: Guardian-3Vase.

Right: Sold Serving Tray, Red border wood is Padauk; light wood is Birch.  Images  created with pyrography and the application of analine dyes.  Inside finished with waterproof poly-resin surface. Ref:  STFallLeaves -3

Sold Shallow bowl/ plate in birch wood with aspen leaves burned into the wood.  This one is also finished with Varathane to preserve the original wood colour.

8.5 inch diameter. Ref. #: 2376 PL

Left: Sold 15" diameter platter with Sacred Hoop and wreath of fall forest leaves. Ref. FF Leaves 4.

Right: 15 " diameter BLack Walnut plate/ Platter with wheat and aspen leaves. Ref: Fall Harvest 2. Sold

Box Elder/ Manitoba Maple wood bowl with bark on. Irregular diameter approximately 9 inches.  Finished with polyurethane and lacquer.

Ref: Bowl-Ina-4

Box Elder/ Manitoba Maple wood bowl; 7 inch diameter with pyrography decoration.  Branch inclusion is natural.  Finished with polyurethane and lacquer

Ref: Bowl-Ina-2-

These are a series of boxes in birch wood with leaf / plant decoration burned into the  simple, blond wood.  I have used aniline dyes AFTER an initial sealer coat of Varathane.  When the wood is sealed the dyes, in a methyl hydrate solution, can be treated much as watercolour paints. Both Sold

Left: Wolf image burned  into the cherry wood. Large 14 inch diameter Cherry Plate;  Ref. # 2384PL, Sold

Right: Black walnut plate / platter.  14.5 inch diamter X 1 inch deep.  Image features the Sacred Hoop surrounded by leaves anf fruit of forest plants found  in Friendly Forest.  Ref: FF Leaves Fall 5 Sold

Right: Stylized landscape on birch wood platter ( 16 " diameter, 1 inch deep).  Ref: Fall Harvest - 1 Sold

Left: Custom plate ordered as a wedding gift.  Pyrography images of plates with aniline dye colour added.  Plate is 15" in diameter.

Go to Wood and Shop page to see stages of this decoration process.

"Inipi Wolf" image burned onto birch plate.  14 inch diameter.

This is a custom item requested by a client.  The image to the left shows the unfinished wood.  The image to the right shows the finished item. Varathane and Lacquer  was used to seal the sufrface   Ref:  "Inipi_Wolf_Plate3"

Aspen, end-grain  trivets with aspen leaves burned into one surface.  Each trivet is approximately 6.5 inches in diameter.  They are sealed with polyurethane finish to make them water proof and stain resist.  Wipe with damp cloth to clean. (Ref # 2349 TR - 2357TR)

Large, 16 inch diameter birch plates.  To the right is the first  animal image I have done using  a wood burning tool. Ref. # 2389 PL SOLD 

Left:Birch Covered Bowl with cordoban burst and gold band.  Ref. # 2391 CB  SOLD

To the right is one of the boxes with the lid opened to show the simple interior.  Reference # 2361K, 2362K and 2363K.

This item is SOLD

 

 

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