Custom Pet - Premium
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$125.00 - Regular price
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$125.00
A custom oak tribute for the dog you’ll never forget. Made from storm-felled oak harvested from our land and carved in our solar-powered woodshop.
Send me 4 good photos of your dog or cat. I need to see what they look like from a couple angles, and I’ll carve and laser-burn their likeness into a solid oak slice from a tree that fell naturally on our land.
DETAILS & SIZING
• Diameter: 9"
• Thickness: hefty 1" solid oak end grain
• Finish: natural oak grain, no dyes or stains
• Hanging: triangle hanger routed into the back so it slips over a screw and sits flush
• Processing time: ships within 5 business days from our WV workshop
• Packaging: ships in our custom StormFelled box so it arrives safe and ready to gift
100% FROM OUR LAND
We harvest storm-felled oak trees from our 225 acre property for our solar-powered woodshop.
Every large tree that blows over produces hundreds of premium, end-grain, 3D relief engravings.
This isn’t store-bought lumber. We harvest oak trees that blow over naturally on our land in West Virginia.
WHY END GRAIN?
End grain engravings produce much sharper results than standard boards.
The laser burns in the shadows and an outline for visibility from across the room.
HANGING & ALIGNMENT
Hangs from the alignment triangle carved on the back.
This triangle is also how I get perfect alignment between stations during the crafting process.
NATURAL CHECKING
Oak cookies almost always check, or split slightly, as they shrink during drying. Cookies usually crack since they dry fast, and wood shrinks when it dries.
This checking is stable and will not continue to spread.
For our premium custom pet portrait line, I only select cookies with minor checking. Other listings may use more rustic cookies with heavier natural character.
SAFE
After drying, the wood is sterilized in a heated kiln.
No bugs, no mold, safe for your house.
WASTE NOTHING
We heat our home all winter with tree and woodshop scraps.We grill with charcoal made from woodshop scraps.
FULFILLMENT
The 2 week fulfillment window is only because I have to wait to get photos from you.Send photos right away and I can usually start much faster.
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100% from Our Land
- The Oak trees have been growing on our land for 100 years.
- I harvest some sunlight shining on our land to power the woodshop.
It's Cracked!
- Wood shrinks when it dries.
- Since the outer rings are larger, they shrink more than the inner rings.
- The crack will not continue to grow because the wood is done drying.
Sterilized
All my wood is heat-treated in an electric kiln.
I exceed established heat-treatment standards for killing insects and eggs.
Cookie VS Board
Judge for Yourself
The only difference between the top and bottom is the grain direction...But why does it make such a difference?
Imagine wood grain as rings of straws running up the trunk of a tree.
- Cookie - I trim the ends of the straws. "End Grain". It remains a bundle of tightly packed straws with deep roots that support each other.
- Board - The bundle of straws is laying on its side. The top layers of straws get cut into a bunch of little segments that chip away easily.
The results speak for themselves.
Tree Facts:
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Pine Prohibition
America's first tree laws weren't environmental. The King claimed all White Pines over 24" for ship masts.
Over half the mature trees in many forests were marked off-limits with the 'King's Broad Arrow'.
This became one of the grievances leading to the American Revolution after 80+ years of control over these resources. -
Branches Don't Grow Like That
A low branch doesn't get higher off the ground as the trunk grows.
Branches only grow longer from the tips, and that includes the trunk. -
Trees Don't Heal
Trees cannot heal their wounds.
Damaged cells remain damaged forever.
They isolate the damaged area with chemical and physical walls and just keep growing. -
It's Getting Bigger
Every year, each acre of forest grows by about 0.55 cords.
This means collectively, our 200 forested acres grows about 110 cords EVERY YEAR.
Each big tree that blows over is only about 1 cord. -
Functionally Extinct
1 in 4 trees in Appalachia used to be an American Chestnut.
These giants produced nutritious, sweet nuts (acorns are bitter) and rot-resistant lumber.Over a 40 year period, an imported fungus killed 4 billion trees.
This cornerstone species is now functionally extinct—one of the greatest ecological disasters in American history.