This hand carved Bible Box is made out of Basswood, Butternut, and Walnut . Chip and incise carving was used to decorate the sides and lid.

Finger joint joinery was use to construct the box for its decorative and structural attributes.

Finish: MinWax Satin Polyurethane and Johnson's Paste Wax.

The lid has a Basswood center. The lettering and design was chip and incised carved.

The lid center was framed in Butternut and was assembled using splined miter joinery for strength.

Black Walnut was used for the lid lift.

I was commissioned to make this box as a gift of appreciation.

The back panel of the box features this appreciation. The text and flower was done using pyrography.

The inside of the box features a relief carving on the bottom of the lid. This relief carving is only 3/32 of an inch deep.

Acrylic washes was used to color the carving.

The inside of the box is lined with blue flocking and the bottom of the box is lined with blue velvet.

Here is a close-up of the relief carving and text.

This hand carved urn is made out of Butternut and curly Red Oak. Oil pigments were used to color the clouds, sun, and background.

Finish: MinWax Wipe-On Poly and Johnson's Paste Wax.

Right hand end of urn has an angel desending the stairways to heaven.

The left hand end has an angel ascending and gesturing up the stairways to heaven. Also 3 cherubs are floating in the clouds.

The back of the urn has two putti sounding their horns towards the cross.

Box made out basswood and black walnut.

Finish: MinWax Antique Oil and Johnson's Paste Wax.

Another view of box.

Center field of box lid was stained with MinWax Walnut stain for a visual effect.

This little bowl was carved out of sugar maple and is patterned after a sugar maple leaf.

The oriole and dogwood branch was carved out of basswood. Painting was done with watercolors.

The picture frame was made out of wormy butternut.

A one of a kind Hygrometer.

I put together a 19th century whaling scene using a scrap piece of walnut that reminded me of a whale.

The hygrometer part is the bent wooden strip attached to a dowel. The specially made strip bends as the moisture in the air changes.

I hand carved the figures in the boat out of basswood and painted them with acrylics. The oars, rudder, and spear are made from copper wire. The boat was carve out of butternut.

I fashioned a piece of cherry as a base to hold everything together.

Hand carved bowl out of cherry wood in the shape of a cherry leaf.

This bowl and ladle was carved out of one piece of wood destined for the woodstove. Fortunately, I had second thoughts before it went up in smoke.

Another piece of firewood diverted from the woodstove. This piece of black locust was destined to be carved into a weedpot.

The daylilly and chipmunk were carved out of basswood and painted with watercolors.

Another piece of firewood diverted from the woodstove.

I saw a spoon / small bowl lurking in this piece of cherry.

This spoon is big enough to be used as a small bowl.

Finish: MinWax Antique Oil and Johnson's Paste Wax.

A decorative handcarved bowl, carved out of quarter sawn red oak lumber to resemble a red oak leaf with a pair of acorns.

Here is a picture of some of the wood bowls that I have hand carved.

The cherry leaf bowl in the forefront was featured as a "how to project" for "Woodcarving Illustrated Magazine in their Fall 2009 #48 Issue.