A dear friend and customer of mine, came to me with a problem. Her father had just departed and she needed a place to store his ashes until her mother went to meet him. He had loved the ocean his entire life, so this box was made in the mariners' tradition of a captain's three-lock box. The box is made of walnut with fiddleback, maple inset into the corners, decorative hand-made nails, lined in royal blue felt and there is a compartment to retain the keys when not in use. The lid (which is completely removable) has a sliding/ locking dove-tail and three locks to hold it on.
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This Maker has consistently demonstrated excellence in craftsmanship and customer service.
The Barefoot Woodworker
Our furniture maker is the Barefoot Woodworker, a professional woodworker with a minor aversion to shoes. He was fortunate enough to have studied under a Master Artisan who was trained in an apprenticeship in the famous Black Forest in Germany. (Black Forest woodworkers and clock makers were renowned for their precision clocks. Cuckoo clocks have been made in the region since the early eighteenth century and much of their development occurred there. Excessive logging and two World Wars have reduced the population of the Black Forest and its renowned woodworkers to a mere fraction of what once was, making their distinguished skills both scarce and valuable.) Barefoot's education by this truly gifted Artisan has lead to a passion for the superior, and almost forgotten, construction methods of the past. He possesses an affinity for hand tools and traditional joinery that most others in this field no longer know about, let alone use. He has also developed a love and comprehensive knowledge of hidden catches and secret compartments. In an industry bombarded with new machinery designed for shortcuts, he is pursuing the Master Woodworker level via traditional methods.
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