Prayer Box - 172
Measures 10" x 8" x 3". The copper name plate would be customized. $150
Black Walnut - black walnut is important for its attractive timber, which is hard, dense, tight-grained and polishes to a very smooth finish. The color ranges from creamy white in the sapwood to a dark chocolate in the heartwood. When kiln-dried, walnut wood tends toward a dull brown color, but when air-dried can become a rich purplish-brown. Because of its color, hardness and grain, it is a prized furniture and carving wood. Walnut burls are commonly used to create bowls and other turned pieces. Veneer sliced from walnut burl is one of the most valuable and highly prized by cabinet makers and prestige car manufacturers. Walnut is also used by makers of stringed instruments such as the violin and guitar and for the body of pipe organs.
Hard Maple - In tree form, Hard Maple is usually referred to as Sugar Maple, and is the tree most often tapped for maple syrup. Sugar Maple's leaves are the shape that most people associate with maple leaves; they typically have either 5 or 7 lobes, with vivid autumn coloring ranging from yellow to purplish red. Its wood is stronger, stiffer, harder, and denser than all the other species of Maple commercially available in lumber form. (It's also the state tree in four different states in the US.) Unlike most other hardwoods, the sapwood of Hard Maple lumber is most commonly used rather than its heartwood. Sapwood color ranges from nearly white, to an off-white cream color, sometimes with a reddish or golden hue. Hard maple is commonly used for flooring (from basketball courts and dance-floors to bowling alleys and residential), paper (pulpwood), making of musical instruments, cutting boards, butcher blocks, workbenches, baseball bats, and other turned objects and specialty wood items.