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Mike Mathieu, owner and artist of Woodworking Plus, Midlothian, VA begins by envisioning an object or a moment in time. Then he transfers this image to paper, creates a detailed pattern, and goes to work making your custom project come to life.
Woodworking Plus Product Line:
- Custom Knife Blocks
- Finished Intarsia Art
- Custom Intarsia
Keepsake/Jewelry Boxes - Intarsia Project Kits
- Small Custom Woodworks
- Furniture Restoration
Instead of using dictionary definitions of Intarsia, we would like to create our own.
Intarsia - the experience of merging Nature's beauty with human ingenuity; finding the perfect combination of woods to express an object or a moment in time; a three- dimensional perspective of the world using natural colored and varied woods; painting with wood.
Mike can create a custom Intarsia Keepsake/Jewelry Box, Pet Urn or Framed Intarsia Wall Hanging from any photo or picture. All of our patterns are hand drawn and all pieces are hand-crafted with pride using only the finest materials.
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Ben Thompson
For Hole in one display5.0What a great job! Mike built the beautiful display box for my Father's hole-in-one golf balls. It was a pleasure working with him. I highly recommend him!
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Joseph Manning
For Jewelery box with inlay monogram outside cover5.0Mike made a special consideration jewlery box for my granddaughter. I just don't have words to adequately describe how beautiful the item was, it took my breath away when I received it and the pictures he sent while the project was underway were totally eclipsed with the final product. Mike is a true artist with wood and I feel so blessed that I found him on CM. He took my ideas and turned them into something truely unique and hopefully a keepsake for generations. Mike was so easy to work with to fine tune design considerations and to keep me advised of his progress. Would I use him again for any special woodworking projects? You know it!! And I can not provide any recommendation that would do proper justice to his talent.
Thank you Mike !!! - D
david
For Intarsia Rose Keepsake/Jewelry Box5.0mike mathieu
completed my project in a more than timely fashion his quality in workman ship is execelant to say the least im so happy with this gift to give my wife im sure it will be passed on from generation to generation thank you mike for your hard work and dedication to this project.sincerly
david manley
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For I need to have a virge done has a gift for a virger that would be consecrated with me . She is a good and dear friend of mine and I think she would love to have a custom made virge. She is a lover of art, specially wood.5.0I just received the second Virge. It is so beautiful and colorful. I feel so proud to present this to my friend she will be so happy. The amazing craftsmanship of this peace of art is outstanding. I could not have chosen a better artist than Mr Mike. Thank you for sharing your God given talent and creativity.
RBRobert Belenchia
For Custom Wood Estate Sign5.0I found Custom Made completely by accident while looking for sign makers and came across your amazing website…. From the moment I exchanged e-mails with Mike I knew I had selected the right man for the job. His workmanship is beyond what I expected. He sent me photos from the wood he selected, the making of the letters to the sign assembled. The sign arrived right on time and in perfect condition. I would absolulety use Mike again from a custom project. I am also spreading the word about Custom Made and have gotten very positive reactions from people.
Thank you again,
Bob Belenchia
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