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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. |
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To the right is one of the boxes with the lid opened to show the simple interior. Reference # 2361K, 2362K and 2363K. |
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| Spalting Birch slice to be used as a trivet that remains on a table even between meals. |
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Take-apart desk top shelf to hold books , CD's etc.
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Black Walnut box wqith birch and bloodwood insert strip |
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Birch canddle holder with metal insert |
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Manchurian Elm box with wenge insert strip |
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Manchurian Elm box with wenge insert strip |
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Black Walnut box |
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Black Walnut with Purpleheart and birch insert strip; lid open |
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Birch memory box with rich heartwood |
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Black walnut with carved aspen leaves and wheat stems |
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Teakbox with purpleheart insert strip |
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Spalting Birch Memory Box chest with leather straps |
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Cherry wood box |
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Set of four small cremation urns with carved game animal images; special family request |
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Figured black walnut cremation urn; specialfamily request |
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Spalting Birch with African Padauk cremation urn |
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Black walnut with bloodwood and spalting birch tile lid |
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Cremation urn with walnut insert and lift out tray for personal item storage; one of my first urns |
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Cremation urn in birch with African Padauk |
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Serving tray with African Padauk sides and decorative border and relief carved images; bottom covered with poly-resin for full durability |
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Special request cremation urn in walnut and birch; one of a matching pair |
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Birch and Walnut memory box chest with leather straps customized as a wedding gift |
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Serving tray in Birch and African Padauk; images of forest floor flora |
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Birch Napkin rings, napkins and storage box |
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One of a series of walnut boxes with flocked bottom and turned lift-out walnut tray SOLD |
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Birch Memory box chest with sun and wheat carved on front; leather straps |
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Mexican Bocote box with lift-out lid |
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Cherry wood box customized to special request |
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Mexican Bocote desk box |
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Tiger Wood (Congalo Alves) box with wenge accent strip and brass clasp |
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Brazilian Pauo Ferro (Brown Ebony / Iron Wood) box with aromatic cedar bottom |
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One of a series of birch wood boxes with carved relief images |
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Tiger Wood (Goncalo Alves) box with wenge and birch insert strip |
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Cocobolo box with aromatic cedar bottom |
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Oak Magazine Storage / Memory Box with brass clasp and image of wheat stalks carved on lid. 13" X 10.5" X 4" high. Full length "piano" hinge for added strength. This unit is stained with a blue aniline dye. Other variations have natural wood or other colour stains. These units also are made of Walnut and Walnut/birch combinations. $90.00 - $120.00 [Ref. MA4] |
Two music storage units. Each consists of a base trolley on casters, topped with three 16" X 16" X 32" modular units stacked, and then covered with an "envelope" frame consisting of a top, back and two sides. This envelope can be lifted off the storage modules to permit rearrangement or reorganization of the storage pieces since they are interchangeable. By changing the nature of the standardized modules, the total configuration can change instantly. Cost would vary with materials used. Shelving of MDF faced with birch and with a birch envelope is shown here. (Ref. Storage1 |
Birch and Nogal Memory Box with base. Leather straps and snap closure fasteners. Lid is hinged with continuous piano hinge. The box is 14" X 20" X 10" high. $190.00 [Ref. MB2] |
Black Walnut box with green velvet lining and strips of Spanish Cedar (light tan color) to add a spicy aromatic character. Designed for those special precious and classy items that give you pleasure to look at or hold. The visual beauty of the unit and the aromatic experience when you open it make it a very special unit. $90.00 (Ref. J1) |
Birchwood storage unit with relief carving of leaves and mushrooms. Lid edge / lifter is a strip of African Padauk. This unit was commissioned as a prize for exhibitors at a large forestry trade show. $90.00 [Ref. MA2] |
Birch "Memory Box" chest with boreal forest leaves carved in relief on the face. Black leather straps and snap closures. This was one of my earlier versions of the chest style box. The first one was in response to a request of a young mother for a "chest' in which to place her first baby "things", hence the term "memory box". $150.00 [Ref. MB3] |
This unit is made from Manchurian Elm salvaged from a neighbour's wood pile. The lid is a lift off, no-hinge style. The Manchurian elm, when cut into boards and cured often will undergo ring separation and so result in useless lumber. However, when ring separation does not occur, the contrasting grain patterns make for a very attractive piece. It takes a great finish with multiple rubbings of tung oil-varnish. aniline dyes were used along the centre lines. $60.00 [Ref. NH1] |
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Black Walnut box with ribbon of birch and Padauk and Padauk edge on lid. Approximately 12" X 8.5" X 3.75" Ref.G 1613 Retail $ 80.00 |
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