Unique – Down To The Wood

The full skinny on how we make our wands

First, we sort through the coppiced timber looking for potential wands. Anything with honeysuckle curled around it is a possibility Next, we cut them to length on site. I use a saw called a Silky Gomboy (catchy name). It is a Japanese saw and like many Japanese saws it cuts on the pull, not the push. The wand is then clamped in a shave-horse, you push with your feet and it clamps the piece, leaving…

The Muggles Pensieve

A reliable method for non-wizarding folk to store memories. It’s all very well for those high-wizards to store and share memories with their fancy pensieves, but here’s a work-around for the rest of us. It is also sometimes called a memory stick, because it stores your memories and it was made from a stick! a quote form the owner of Down To The Wood We have it it walnut and soon in Maple, they’re all…

Oiling Boards

There is a lot of work preparing these wooden boards, then about 3 hours under the laser, but you still don’t really know what you’ve got until the oil goes on. Perry Bond Just watch this Golden retriever board Each board is a one-off, and they sell quite quickly, so we’re keeping a record of our boards over at Pinterest If there’s an image you would like to see on a board, just leave a…

Is it a Westie?

We know our woods, we though we knew our dogs, but now we’re not so sure! Is it a Westie?Yorkie?Jack Russell?Border Terrier? Well, it’s on Alder wood; at least we know that! Here are some other designs:All about 15″ x 10″ (380mm x 250mm) These are all one-offs and some are already sold, but we are happy to attempt any image or re-do one we have already tried. A complete gallery of these boards can…

Alder Animal Coasters

We designed some coasters last year, asked a man with a machine to laser them for me in Oak… when he had finished, he said ‘all done, only I couldn’t get oak, so we used bamboo’ …well we do like I bit of environmentally friendly grass; but it’s not very English, the New Forest is not exactly famous for it’s swathes of bamboo! So earlier this year, we had a chance meeting with another man…

Celtic Tree Birthday Cards

They’ve taken us just under a year to design and get made, but we have finally received stock of our new unique cards The Celtic version of the zodiac doesn’t concern it’s self with constellations, but with more immediate, practical signs: the trees and plants that grow around us; that are useful in our everyday lives.Here are links to the thirteen cards, see what your Celtic sign says about you! Birch; The Achiever (Dec. 24…

Our first cheese board

We’ve been playing with our new laser a while now, but it’s hard to get it running without the odd hiccup and as images take a long while we usually get a programme crash or the laser not stepping the correct amount. But here is our first success. It took just over 4 hours! New Forest English Oak Otter engraved Cheese Board £35 15″ x 10″ The English Oak; three hundred years to grow, three…

The Tree

Another unique card, written by ourselves; hardly a greetings card, but a card with a message from all trees. When you were young I kept you shaded, kept you fed.As you learned, my gifts were your tools of progress.For shelter and warmth, you’ve always looked to me.We even crossed the oceans together, you and I.Now I feel you have moved on, and do not look at me or love me still,but remember, mine forever is…

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