Handmade Gifts for friends and your home

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

Nice for the eye to fall on.

Cost each: $28.00
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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6″ x 1½″      $40.
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine

A small bowl with many uses.

Cost each: $40.00
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6½″ x 4½″   $235
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine 

This will be a household treasure for a long time.

Cost each: $235.00
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Oak, oil paint on lid.  
4½″ x 4″     $80.    
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine 

In our house this would be a butter bowl. We can’t insist on what it is in your house but we’d love to know.

Cost each: $80.00
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Cypress.    5½″ x 1¾″   $40
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine 

Elegantly serve hummus or salsa, olives, nuts, malt balls, or rose petals.

Cost each: $40.00
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American elm.  7½″ x 1¾″    $85
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine

The American elm is one of the hardiest trees, or at least used to be before most were killed by Dutch Elm Disease, though varieties are developing that may be more resistant. This dish is from one of the old unfortunates. It grew on the Old Ferry Road in Castine, Maine.

Cost each: $85.00
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Black walnut and maple. 8″ x 2″     $90
Mark Baldwin, Surry Maine 

Black walnut and sugar maple, two beautifully contrasting woods. Picture any color serving on the table.

Cost each: $90.00
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Cherry
7½″ x 3¼″   $95
Temple Blackwood, Castine Maine 

We find yarn bowls online, probably from Asia, for remarkably little money. They are pretty enough but, not so delicately turned and, Temple says, “never with the yarn hole hand-carved from a knot in the wood where the swirl of grain focuses the attention to the harmony of wood and wool.” Temple is a master turner in the village of Castine, not far from Borealis Press.

Cost each: $95.00
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