Redwood burl has many different grain patterns and color variations. The natural colors vary from light pink, to a rich dark red and even purple. As burl grows, dirt, rocks, and bark can become imbedded in the wood. As a result, burl often has naturally occurring fissures which add to the unique characteristics of the piece. We pride ourselves in not harvesting any living trees for use in our pieces. We utilize only trees that are storm casualties, from salvage operations, or from sustainable harvest operations.

Our gifts are hand crafted of woods from the fog shrouded forests of Northern California. The burls used in our gifts is itself an oddity of nature, happening perhaps once in 1000 trees.

This is what a redwood burl looks like in its natural form. Once the burl is cut away from the stump, it takes hours to clean away the dirt and rocks to prepare the wood to be worked. The cleaned wood is cut into slabs or large chunks. At that point, the artistic process begins.

Here is a piece of redwood burl on the lathe, ready to begin its transformation into a vase.

Rounds of redwood burl in the drying kiln. We dry all of our wood to a 6% moisture level. The wood is first air dried for several months and then gradually finishes drying in our kiln. This is a slow process but ensures that each piece has stability of form in any climate.