Mantle
This piece is a (fireplace) mantle. The desire was for a simple design with minimal accents to not detract from the natural beauty of the wood. The grain of the wood is amazing in its flow, sweeping in graceful arcs from end to end. It is from a single slab of native Pennsylvania poplar. It bears relief carvings of evergreen trees on the sconce sides and the same trees as well as facing bear outlines on the top. I used the same relief-carve-burn-sand technique employed in much of my work. It leaves the burnt image clean on the surface of the wood and the burning requires no stains or paints to bring out the images I or my customer choose to use. Dimensions : 60" long x 12" deep x 16" high; all pieces are 2 & 1/2 " thick; 45 & 1/4" between supports. The finish is simple linseed oil and beeswax which leaves the slight green cast of natural poplar wood showing thru. It is intended to be a mantle over a fireplace but could easily be adapted to be a rustic shelf in a gameroom, den, or even a kitchen.
Style
- kitchen
Type
- wood
Style
- rustic
Finish
- paint
Meet the Maker
Mick Crowder
Split Log Rustics
I manufacture custom rustic furniture and accessories as well as custom native hardwood gunstocks. Furniture and accessories include tables, benches, beds, footstools, wall hangings, mantles - each can be customized to the buyers specs with carvings of any design. I use live edge slabs of wood of all sizes to achieve the rustic look and feel. Finishes can be natural or stained to the customers wishes. Some pieces incorporate original artworks from cave painting designs to larger pieces featuring horses and other animals and fish as well as cabins and old barns. Gunstocks are sold either as plain blanks or semi-inletted to the customers' size dimensions. Hardwoods of walnut and maple as well as exotics are available with differing grain figure as desired.