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Handmade Gifts for friends and your home

 All of the work here is made by a small group of turners in Maine – Mark Baldwin of Borealis Press, Peter Keniston of Turner, and Temple Blackwood in Castine. There may be similarities between some pieces but no two pieces are just the same. New work is added regularly and some new turners may join in too.

Many of these lidded bowls are an elegant and practical way to keep butter out of the refrigerator – or in it if you prefer. They are so handy that a Borealis Butter Bowl Cult has sprung up and may run a candidate for president or a school board near you. Lauren Murray is one of the founding cult members. She writes: “Domestic life began anew when my butter bowl arrived. I depend on her completely. My guests won’t leave.”

Results 51-100 of 103 items (48 per page)

T-079 - Kobutsu Mirror - SOLD

5¾″ x ¾″ Spalted Birch $80.
Kobutsu, Brooksville Maine

What to say? A lovely little mirror of exceptional spalted birch, elegantly finished with a particularly time-consuming method.

Cost each: $80.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-079 - Kobutsu Mirror - SOLD

5¾″ x ¾″ Spalted Birch $80.
Kobutsu, Brooksville Maine

What to say? A lovely little mirror of exceptional spalted birch, elegantly finished with a particularly time-consuming method.

Cost each: $80.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-077 - Yarn Bowl - SOLD

7″ x 2¾″ Cherry $105.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

Now this is a pretty, non-electric, 100% hand made knitting machine for the coziness of your living room. And, empty and adorning a shelf, it may even dumbfound some of your non-knitter visitors.

Cost each: $105.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-077 - Yarn Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $105.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-074 - Cake Knife - SOLD

14″ x ¾″ Rock maple, teak $60.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

This maple has it all; it’s spalted, with tiny worm holes (no problem), and fiddleback grain. Handle is teak, Blade is 9½″ long. The edge is sharp enough for cutting cake and safe for a child. If needed (not likely) it can be touched up with sandpaper. Best washed with a sponge and dried. A rub with walnut or boiled linseed oil or “butcher block oil” will keep it bright. For a birthday? Wedding? Mother’s Day? Yourself?

Cost each: $60.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-074 - Cake Knife - SOLD

Cost each: $60.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-073 - Cherry and Maple Dry Vase - SOLD

7″ x 2″ $28.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

A customer said, “Before visiting my mother in her assisted living apartment I walk the edges of the parking lot and the runoff pond for bits of green and twigs for her dry vase. She changes the display every morning and admires it for the rest of the day. Her neighbor says, ‘She won’t tell me where I can get one.’ My mother can be a bit mouthy so I don’t butt in, but if she ever does share the secret please have a selection on hand.”

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-073 - Cherry and Maple Dry Vase - SOLD

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-071 - Bluetooth Speaker - SOLD

5″ x 2¾″ Cherry burl $118.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

What?? That’s a bluetooth speaker?

Yup. This is 1) a sweet-sounding unit and 2) Temple has turned it into a gorgeous piece of craftsmanship, perfectly fitted and finished in cherry burl.

The speaker itself comes from Rockler. Its site has over 300 reviews, about 90% of them four or five star. Google “Rockler bluetooth speaker reviews” or copy this:
https://www.rockler.com/rockler-stereo-wireless-speaker-kit-with-2-speakers-and-playback-volume-controls

About 10% of the reviews are negative with two complaints: difficulty wiring the kit and volume of the on-off notice is too loud for the reviewer. (Mark didn’t notice this.) Temple has tested the assembly so it is totally enclosed and ready to go.

Comes with instructions and charging cord. When this one sells Temple can make another on fairly short order, though this is an exceptional piece of wood. Each piece is one is one-of-a-kind.

Cost each: $118.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-071 - Bluetooth Speaker - SOLD

5″ x 2¾″ Cherry burl $118.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

What?? That’s a bluetooth speaker?

Yup. This is 1) a sweet-sounding unit and 2) Temple has turned it into a gorgeous piece of craftsmanship, perfectly fitted and finished in cherry burl.

Comes with instructions and charging cord. When this one sells Temple can make another on fairly short order, though this is an exceptional piece of wood. Each piece is one is one-of-a-kind.

Cost each: $118.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-070 - Calabash Bowl - SOLD

9″ x 4″ White ash $90.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

The original calabash bowls were painstakingly made from the fruit gourd of the calabash tree found in the Pacific, Caribbean, Indian Ocean islands, and in Africa. In Hawaii they were reserved for royalty until the late 1800s.

Modern calabash bowls are turned with the same round bottoms and sides. Done well they will rock a bit on a hard surface but not tip. Traditionally they would nest nicely on the ground.

This one is turned from a large fallen white ash in Castine, Maine, a good size for salad for two or three, or some other serving. Finished with walnut oil.

Cost each: $90.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-070 - Calabash Bowl - SOLD

9″ x 4″ White ash $90.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

Modern calabash bowls are turned with the same round bottoms and sides. Done well they will rock a bit on a hard surface but not tip. Traditionally they would nest nicely on the ground.

This one is turned from a large fallen white ash in Castine, Maine, a good size for salad for two or three, or some other serving. Finished with walnut oil.

Cost each: $90.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-068 - Gnome Guard Box - SOLD

See description for materials.
6″ x 2″ $54.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

Approximately for always the Sami people of far northern Norway have kept secrets that were important but small, so they were easy to carry as the people travelled their beautiful land with their reindeer. The secrets needed to be protected the way only gnomes can protect a secret.

This is not an ancient Sami gnomegard but Temple Blackwood has crafted it for us using the wisdom of his own beard. Materials are cherry, maple, pink ivory wood, and the tip of an elderly ulv (wolf) tail, which the ulv donated to help protect the secrets. Temple, whose great great etc. grandfather was Samisk Hemmeligheter, is not saying where he got the ulvehale. For more information contact HistoryDepartment@BorealisPress.net, or the cultural desk of the Embassy of Norway, 2720 34th Street NW, Washington DC 20008, USA.

Cost each: $54.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-068 - Gnome Guard Box - SOLD

Cost each: $54.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-067 - Oakeef Bowl - SOLD

5½″ x 1½″ Oak $95.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

A branch grows at an angle off of the trunk. The beginning of an occlusion looks like it eventually would have broken off but instead the crotch became a beautiful little bowl, or, if you please, a hunk of wood to admire.

Cost each: $95.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-067 - Oakeef Bowl - SOLD

5″ x 2¾″ Cherry burl $118.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

What?? That’s a bluetooth speaker?

Yup. This is 1) a sweet-sounding unit and 2) Temple has turned it into a gorgeous piece of craftsmanship, perfectly fitted and finished in cherry burl.

Comes with instructions and charging cord. When this one sells Temple can make another on fairly short order, though this is an exceptional piece of wood. Each piece is one is one-of-a-kind.

Cost each: $95.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-065 - Spurtle Christine - SOLD

Poplar
12″–13″ x 1″ $19 each.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

They are called Spurtle Christine for my friend Christine in Ayrshire Scotland who has been stirring pots of porridge since she was a child – which is not as long as the over 500 years that spurtles have been in the breakfast and soup business.

There have been many variations on the spurtle but traditional ones are a fairly thin tapered stick, more or less embellished by the maker. (Look up the annual Golden Spurtle Prize for the best traditional porridge.) In the old days some were long two-handed jobs for big kettles on an open fire.

The handle end of Spurtle Christine has flattened parts that resist rolling off the counter. The flared working end helps clear the inside corner of the pot and the flattened can be rubbed across the bottom. The porridge tastes the same with either the flared or rounded ends so the debate may still be fresh after another century of Golden Spurtle awards.

Your order will be for one or more T-065. They all work exactly the same; it’s just more interesting for this wood turner to give them slightly different looks. Finished with walnut oil.

Cost each: $19.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-065 - Spurtle Christine - SOLD

Your order will be for one or more T-065. They all work exactly the same; it’s just more interesting for this wood turner to give them slightly different looks. Finished with walnut oil.

Cost each: $19.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-064 - Cherry French Rolling Pin - SOLD

15¾″x 1¼″ $24.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

If you feel inclined to send us four cookies you've made using this elegant Rolling Pin we’ll send back four greeting cards. Otherwise we’ll just be happy that you put a smile on some other faces.

Cost each: $24.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-064 - Cherry French Rolling Pin - SOLD

Cost each: $24.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-063 - Small Walnut Dry Vase - SOLD

4″ x 1¾″ $18.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

My kids say I keep piles of wood that “is too good to use for anything, ever.” Not true: here is an old hunk of wood that’s moving from my place to yours.

In 1967 the late Willy and I were switch-backing down a West Virginia mountain on our way to Washington DC. We had almost reached flatland when we came on a pile of walnut logs cleared by a road crew. To Willy and me walnut was a prince of woods but in those days it was common enough in West Virginia to be used for fence posts. A short way back we passed the crew chipping such a pile. We whipped around, asked the road crew if we could take some of the logs, and then dashed to a U-Haul garage we’d seen on the west side of the mountain. Next morning we took the logs to a sawmill on Maryland’s Patuxent River, and a few years later schlepped the best pieces on our move to Maine. I think this little sweetie is the very last bit of it. That’s all: just a little piece of wood shaped, smoothed, and a hole drilled in it, waiting for some fanciful arrangement.

Cost each: $18.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-063 - Small Walnut Dry Vase - SOLD

Cost each: $18.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-062 - Choke Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

7″ x 2¼″ $28.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Almost any walk beyond a city’s concrete caverns will turn up twigs, dried flowers, fluffy weeds, evergreen tips, windblown bunches of leaves, a twig full of berries, a wayward red ball for a curious flash of color (you see it?). Maybe you are, or could be, one of those who keep a box of findings for their ever-changing displays. It makes sense: these simple dry vases are carved from, what else? found wood.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-062 - Choke Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

7″ x 2¼″ $28.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-061 - Taller Spalted Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

8½″ x 2¼″ $28.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Almost any walk will turn up handfuls of flora – twigs, dried flowers and weeds, evergreen tips, windblown bunches of leaves, a twig full of berries, a wayward red ball for a curious flash of color (you see it?). Some people keep a little box of findings for their ever-changing displays in these simple dry vases carved from, what else? found wood.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-061 - Taller Spalted Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

8½″ x 2¼″ $28.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-060 - Fiddleback Spurtle - SOLD

Spalted rock maple with flddleback grain.
12½″ x 1½″ $45.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

I never heard of a porridge stick until I read Haldor Laxness’ Independent People. In that Nobel Prize novel from Iceland the crofter’s porridge stick was long enough to lean on the wall and a boy thought it was alive. The Scots have called it a spurtle for over six hundred years. They knew that the tapered round shape was best for stirring a pot of almost anything partly because the small end can wipe around a pot’s inside corners. Lest modern Scots forget their history (fat chance) the annual World Porridge Making Championship awards the Golden Spurtle to the year’s best maker of traditional porridge.

Cost each: $45.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-060 - Fiddleback Spurtle - SOLD

Cost each: $45.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-055 - Small Ash Footed Bowl - SOLD

White Ash with a bit of spalting.
4¼″ x 2¼″ $24.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Pass the chutney please – or guacamole, or whipped cream, or butter, or any condiment that pleases your table.
Outside of the bowl finished with heat-rubbed tung oil. Inside finished with edible walnut oil.

Is it interesting to know that this piece started with an ash fallen in the Penobscot Maine woods? Cut off and split a chunk, plane one side flat enough to mount on the lathe, and presto (almost) your bowl. Why not $40 Because as we speak I am warming myself with the off-cuts and shavings in the woodstove, and it warms me to imagine your hospitality.

Cost each: $24.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-055 - Small Ash Footed Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $24.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-053 - Long French Rolling Pin - SOLD

Fiddleback rock maple and cherry.
23″ x 1½″ $70.
Mark Baldwin Surry, Maine

This French-style rolling pin is a hefty 23″ long, including the tapered ends which can be pressed down to thin the edge of the dough.
The rock maple came from splitting a lot of firewood to find its fiddleback grain. The ends are black cherry from Pennsylvania. Keep it out of the fireplace and great-grandchildren may treasure it. Wash gently by hand if need be. The finish is edible walnut oil, a good way to keep the grain bright. Food-safe oils like tung, boiled linseed oil, and pharmaceutical mineral oil also work, though no finishing is necessary.

Cost each: $70.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-053 - Long French Rolling Pin - SOLD

Fiddleback rock maple and cherry.
23″ x 1½″ $70.
Mark Baldwin. Surry, Maine

This French-style rolling pin is a hefty 23″ long, including the tapered ends which can be pressed down to thin the edge of the dough.
The rock maple came from splitting a lot of firewood to find its fiddleback grain. The ends are black cherry from Pennsylvania. Keep it out of the fireplace and great-grandchildren may treasure it. Wash gently by hand if need be. The finish is edible walnut oil, a good way to keep the grain bright. Food-safe oils like tung, boiled linseed oil, and pharmaceutical mineral oil also work, though no finishing is necessary.

Cost each: $70.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-052 - Carved Spreader Knife - SOLD

Fiddleback rock maple and mahogany. 5½″ x 1½″ $32.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

The edge, sharp enough for anything spreadable, goes all around the blade. Finish is walnut oil, good stuff for eating and finishing. Boiled linseed oil tung oil and mineral oil are good food-safe substitutes to keep utensils bright. The blade comes from a bunch of firewood split while looking for the fiddleback grain. The mahogany is culled from the off-cuts in my son Andrew’s cabinet shop – infinitely tidier than mine.

Cost each: $32.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-052 - Carved Spreader Knife - SOLD

Cost each: $32.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-051 - White Ash Spurtle - SOLD

White ash. 12½″ x 1½″ $32.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Please check T-049 for the Spurtle Story, or google it. If you serve porridge you don’t want to be without one say the Scots, who should know.

This particular ash grew in Penobscot, Maine, on a mildly boggy slope of ash, cedar, and red maple. It’s finished with edible walnut oil, a tasty addition to the kitchen: un-refined for finishing, refined for higher heat cooking, either one for wiping on wooden bowls and implements.

Cost each: $32.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-051 - White Ash Spurtle - SOLD

Cost each: $32.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-049 - Fiddleback Spurtle - SOLD

Fiddleback rock maple. 12½″ x 1½″ $45.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

I never heard of a porridge stick until I read Independent People, which has been called “the Icelandic national novel.” In Haldor Laxness’ book the stick was long enough to lean on the wall, and a boy thought it was alive. No doubt you know that Scots were using the word “spurtell” since at least 1528. They knew that the tapered round shape was best for stirring because porridge doesn’t stick to it as it might to a spoon. Lest modern Scots forget their history (fat chance) the annual World Porridge Making Championship awards the Golden Spurtle to the year’s best maker of traditional porridge. (Duncan Hilditch was a four-time winner.)
This spurtle came from opening up a pile of firewood searching for a few pieces of that beautiful fiddleback (or tiger) grain.

Cost each: $45.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-049 - Fiddleback Spurtle - SOLD

Cost each: $45.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-045 - Spalted White Birch Bowl 2 - SOLD

8½″ x 3½″ $120.
Peter Keniston, Turner Maine

This bowl and T-044 came from the same piece of wood that was split down the middle. Sold separately, but this and T-044 would make a handsome pair to display. Tung Oil satin finish. If used for food, we recommend dry only.

Cost each: $120.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-045 - Spalted White Birch Bowl 2 - SOLD

Cost each: $120.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-043 - Red Maple Dry Vase with Red Split - SOLD

2½″ x 7″ $19
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

This red maple branch was turned green with the heart left in so it developed a split when it dried. (What to do but paint it red?) The strength is not affected. It was turned slightly asymmetrically for a bit of visual interest.

Cost each: $19.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-043 - Red Maple Dry Vase with Red Split - SOLD

Cost each: $19.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-042 - Larger Dry Vase - SOLD

3″ x 8″ $45.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

This old sugar maple had a full life on its way to a new home. Hard conditions spalted her wood. Post beetles laid tiny eggs in it, which left tracks when tiny beetles chewed their way out in search of a way to make more post beetles. Maybe she donated some of her sap for maple syrup. When she finally fell some of the wood split (a hint is left at the bottom). And, for reasons only a maple can know, it expressed itself with that shimmering fiddle-back grain. I like her story and I know for a fact that she will hold other grown things – green, dried, or twiggy – that you bring into your life.

Cost each: $45.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-042 - Larger Dry Vase - SOLD

Cost each: $45.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-041 - Lidded Walnut Maple Bowl - SOLD

4¾″ x 3½″ + knob $90
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

How might we use a lidded bowl? In our house it would be a butter bowl, if we needed another one. Otherwise I might say silly things about pearls and jelly beans or, more seriously, malt balls. Black walnut is a glorious wood. Sugar (or rock) maple is a nice contrast. The cherry lid with its warm color and wavy grain is a pleasing bridge. Ask somebody a couple of generations down the line what they think about it.

Cost each: $90.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-041 - Lidded Walnut Maple Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $90.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-040 - Small Choke Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

2″ x 5¼″ $24
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Small dry vase, big impact. Have fun.

Cost each: $24.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-040 - Small Choke Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

2″ x 5¼″ $24
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Small dry vase, big impact. Have fun.

Cost each: $24.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-039 - Spalted Beech Bowl - SOLD

6½″ x 1¾″ $60.
Peter Keniston, Turner Maine

Another rescued from the firewood pile. Ideal for candy or pistachios!

Cost each: $60.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-039 - Spalted Beech Bowl - SOLD

6½″ x 1¾″ $60.
Peter Keniston, Turner Maine

Another rescued from the firewood pile. Ideal for candy or pistachios!

Cost each: $60.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-038 - Footed Cherry Platter - SOLD

9″ x 1¼″ $58.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

For serving many things. Note: inside bottom has two tiny cherry plugs sealing little powderpost beetle holes where a little adolescent powderpost beetle chewed its way out looking for a little powderpost beetle mate.

Cost each: $58.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-038 - Footed Cherry Platter - SOLD

Cost each: $58.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-037 - Cherry 4-Side Dry Vase - SOLD

2½″ x 7″ $28
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

This piece of cherry arrived at the shop as a small log. I split it and sawed it into planks. I spilled some gold paint on one of the planks. Because it seemed like a little story, one side of the vase has some of the gold paint, another side shows the split marks as they came off the ax. The third and fourth sides were planed smooth. One of those sides has two small knots, which look (and are) rather purposeful the way they fit into the shape.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-037 - Cherry 4-Side Dry Vase - SOLD

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-036 - Small Maple Tiger Dry Vase - SOLD

2″ x 5¼″ $24.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

This kind of grain (called tiger, or striped, or fiddle-back) seems to grow mainly in sugar maple (also called hard or rock maple). It is not impossibly rare but you can go through a truck full of wood and not find any.

Cost each: $24.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-036 - Small Maple Tiger Dry Vase - SOLD

Cost each: $24.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-035 - Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

2½″ x 7″ $28
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

We said this on another dry vase but it goes for all of them: Whether for ourselves or a gift, all of these dry vases are an inexpensive, long-lasting way to celebrate a home and grown things around us that are not long stem roses. • Here’s another true thing: whenever one of these pieces is on the lathe, taking shape, maybe changing because of what the wood says, the turner almost certainly can see it on a shelf or table or kitchen counter, in a small apartment or grand home or maybe in a tent or the back of an RV, filled with whatever clippings might be beckoning in that night’s stopping place.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-035 - Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-034 - Old Pine Dry Vase - SOLD

2″ x 7″ $45.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Today about the only source of treasured old growth southern pine is reclaimed wood from old structures or logs dredged from bogs. The wood might be from two to several hundred or more years old. It lasts because it has so much resin which, in turn, means that sanding never gives as good a finish as a sharp cut. This came from a 19th century convent, probably taken down in the early 1950s. Timbers were piled in a swampy field until the 1970s when a friend and I found and salvaged it to build a house on Maine’s Morgan Bay. This is from a left-over piece. The turning, as you can see, is asymmetrical with a hexagonal base. The wood has no finish other than the tree’s resin.

Cost each: $45.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-034 - Old Pine Dry Vase - SOLD

Cost each: $45.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-033 - Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

2½″ x 7″ $28.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Whether for ourselves or a gift, all of these dry vases are an inexpensive, long-lasting way to celebrate a home and grown things around us that are not long stem roses.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-033 - Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-032 - Tea Candlestick - SOLD

Spalted cherry, roughly 2″ T x 7″ H $42
Temple Blackwood, Castine, Maine

This unique candlestick holds a tea candle. What’s the advantage of that? No candle stubs or dripping wax, but mostly they give a lovely light and they are short enough so you don’t have to look around them to see the person across the table.

Cost each: $42.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-032 - Tea Candlestick - SOLD

Cost each: $42.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-031 - Lidded Oak Bowl - SOLD

White oak with sugar maple band.
Poplar and teak lid.
4½″ x 5″ tall with lid. $75.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Holds at least a half-pound of butter, or lots of sugar for the table, or We’d-Like-To-Know-How-You-Use-It.

Cost each: $75.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-031 - Lidded Oak Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $75.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-030 - Footed Oak Bowl - SOLD

5½″ x 2″ $48
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

A footed form is elegant when serving a dish on the table, but works just as well for morning cereal, mid-day soup, or three kinds of ice cream and a cookie whenever the mood strikes.

Cost each: $48.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-030 - Footed Oak Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $48.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-029 - Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

5½″ x 2″ $19
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Why does this nice little twig vase cost less than others? No good reason; it’s smaller but takes just as long to make. It’s just hoping that someone might say, “Oh, OK. I have a corner for a little celebration like that.” T-007, near the top of the page, costs a quite a bit more because that beautiful flame grain doesn’t grow on trees… Oh wait . . . but it’s rare.

Cost each: $19.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-029 - Cherry Dry Vase - SOLD

Cost each: $19.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-028 - Spalted Ash Dry Vase - SOLD

7½″ x 2½″ $28
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

From evergreens to dry weeds to something you make with twigs and yarns – it’s so simple to have bursts of imagination at home or work.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-028 - Spalted Ash Dry Vase - SOLD

7½″ x 2½″ $28
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

From evergreens to dry weeds to something you make with twigs and yarns – it’s so simple to have bursts of imagination at home or work.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-027 - Multi-wood Bowl/Plate - SOLD

7½″ x 1¼″ $55
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

It’s a small plate. It’s a small bowl. It’s made of sugar maple with “plain” grain, different kinds of flame (or tiger) figuring, some pattern I don’t know the name of, and walnut. It’s been fun staring at it with light from different directions.

Cost each: $55.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-027 - Multi-wood Bowl/Plate - SOLD

Cost each: $55.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-026 - Lidded Bowl - SOLD

Choke cherry.
3¼″ x 3½″ – With lid 3¼″ x 4½″ $68.
Mark Baldwin, Surry, Maine

It’s pretty. It feels good. It had a life as a sweet tree on the bank of the marsh, and then was a leafless woodpecker home. Now, perhaps, it can hold a two-foot string of pearls and a secret encoder ring. Let us know.

Cost each: $68.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-026 - Lidded Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $68.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-025 - Footed Serving Dish - SOLD

Mahogany
11″ x 1¼″ $68.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

This will serve many uses on the table with its ample size, lustrous food-safe finish, and interesting grain patterns in the fitted-together sections of mahogany.

Cost each: $68.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-025 - Footed Serving Dish - SOLD

Cost each: $68.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-024 - Spalted Ash Dry Vase - SOLD

7½″ x 2¼″ $28
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Nice for the eye to fall on.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-024 - Spalted Ash Dry Vase - SOLD

7½″ x 2¼″ $28
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Nice for the eye to fall on.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-023 - Lidded Table Salt Cellar - SOLD

Hackberry
Bowl 3″ x 3″ including lid. $34
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

There are plenty of less than $20 salt cellars on the market usually a hole drilled in a piece of wood, plastic, or marble with a stopper. This one doesn’t work any better though it’s easier to pinch the last bit from a rounded bottom than a flat one. This one comes with flaws, or interesting points, depending on how you see it. The little indented wiggles are where an adolescent powder post beetle chewed its way out of the tree when it was big enough find a mate and plant new eggs. The tracks are well sealed now, just a memento of a fellow inhabitant.

Cost each: $34.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-023 - Lidded Table Salt Cellar - SOLD

Cost each: $34.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-022 - Tea Candlestick - SOLD

Ash, roughly 2″ T x 7″ H $42.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

This unique candlestick holds a tea candle. What’s the advantage of that? No candle stubs or dripping wax, but mostly they give a lovely light and they are short enough so you don’t have to look around them to see the person across the table.

Cost each: $42.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-022 - Tea Candlestick - SOLD

Cost each: $42.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-021 - Serving Bowl - SOLD

Cherry and sugar maple.
7¾″ x 2½″ $70.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

Show off cheese, dips, stir-fry or layers of crepes. The rim is one of the hard maples – also called rock or sugar maple, depending on where you live.

Cost each: $70.00
One of a kind

T-021 - Serving Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $70.00
One of a kind

T-020 - Cherry Egg Cup - SOLD

3″ x 4″ $28.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

Use either end, the small for eating out of the shell, the large for scooping your egg into it.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-020 - Cherry Egg Cup - SOLD

3″ x 4″ $28.
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

Use either end, the small for eating out of the shell, the large for scooping your egg into it.

Cost each: $28.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-019 - Wormy Child's Bowl - SOLD

Hackberry. 5½″ x 1½″ $25.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

If this bowl is going to a child we’ll include a little sheet explaining the “worm tracks,” which are really exit holes for tiny beetles who eat their way out of the log after they hatch, reach reproductive maturity, and go looking for a mate.

Cost each: $25.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-019 - Wormy Child's Bowl - SOLD

Cost each: $25.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-018 - Ornamental Oak Burl - SOLD

5″ x 2½″ $95.
Peter Keniston, Turner Maine

Peter, who learned turning from his father, prefers to use found pieces of wood –– something interesting from the firewood pile, pieces friends drop off, maybe a hunk left behind by a road crew.

Cost each: $95.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-018 - Ornamental Oak Burl - SOLD

Cost each: $95.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-017 - Live Cherry Form - SOLD

7″x 8″ x 3″ at highest. $195
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

Here’s an experiment: keep a log of visitors in the house with a column for those who have a close look at this and those who don’t. We’re curious.

Cost each: $195.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-017 - Live Cherry Form - SOLD

Cost each: $195.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-016 - Mahogany Bowl/Plate - SOLD

7½″ x 1½″ $60.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

An occasional rub with the right oil will keep the warm glow for years and years as a family grows or they are passed around. Drop us a note if you’d like a short review of what we do, and some info on food-safe finishes. (Everything here is safely finished.)

Cost each: $60.00
One of a kind

- SOLD

T-016 - Mahogany Bowl/Plate - SOLD

Cost each: $60.00
One of a kind

- SOLD