Milling 2 inch Bloodwood turning squares as we speak...

Cutting up the last remaining billet from our old batch of Bloodwood purchased around 15 years ago.
This old stock had that nice cardinal red color that is getting harder and harder to find nowadays.
Let us know if you want to snag any pieces before it's gone.

Click here to see available turning stock.

Turned Pieces by John Beaver

John Beaver's Artist Statement from his website-

"I enjoy including a certain "how did he do that?" factor into my pieces while staying true to good design. Having lived my entire life near the Pacific Ocean, the motion and rhythm of the ocean's waves are a major inspiration for my work. Contrast is also an important element for me, not only aesthetically but in the process of turning a functional object, like a bowl, into an “object d’art.” Artistically I like to combine multiple woods with dyes and textures to enhance the rhythmic lines that are a part of my work. The technical genesis of these works lies in my ability to deconstruct and reconstruct a turned vessel in a number of different ways while maintaining grain and wall alignment. I hope that my pieces will evoke a feeling of movement and energy in an otherwise static environment."

Providing top quality exotics to artists such John is the reason we love doing what we do. Sourcing out rare and hard to find pieces of wood is one thing but "turning" them into amazing pieces of art is something entirely different. As we always say, "...we just sell the wood, it's our customers who have all the talent."

Below are some images from John website www.johnbeaver.net using wood purchased here at TEH-

Cocobolo Bowl

Bloodwood/Maple Bowl

Resin Vein Eucalyptus Burl Bowl

Here is John's Cocobolo bowl spotted at this year's
"Design in Wood" exhibit at the 2011 San Diego County Fair

For more on John Beaver and his artwork, please visit his website-
www.johnbeaver.net

Click here to visit our customer gallery.

Pieces by Barry Robin

Orange County native, Barry Robin has been a woodworker for close to 40 years.

Barry's introduction to fine woodworking came as a yacht carpenter, apprenticing under Don Fredrickson in Newport Beach. Wood turning and furniture design grew out of a need to express himself artistically while spending days in the engineering world.

Here are some amazing pieces by Barry out of wood purchased here at TEH. Most pieces are made using our high grade Mexican Cocobolo* and other hard to find species from around the world.

Amazing craftsmanship and design, don't you think?

*Several of Barry's jewelry boxes pictured below are made using some of our rare extra-wide pieces of Mexican Cocobolo.

To view some individual piece of extra-wide cocobolo listed on our online store, please click here.

Above is a gorgeous jewelery box out of Cocobolo.

Here is some wall art using Padouk and Pau Amarello (Yellowheart)

Bloodwood and Myrtle turned piece.

Another amazing jewelery box out of Cocobolo.

Parota hall table.

For more on Barry Robin and his artwork, please visit his website-

studiorobin.biz

Click here to view more finished pieces by our customers. 

Turned Piece by Bruce Lewellyn

Fantastic piece by customer Bruce Lewellyn-Tulipwood and Bloodwood (and I believe a little holly)

See more of Bruce's work on his website brucelewellyn.com

Turning by customer Jon Sauer

We received this amazing piece yesterday from customer Jon Sauer from Pacifica California

Jon used both our Masur Birch and Bloodwood in the construction of this piece

Pieces by Dean Moore

A few more pieces by Dean Moore:

Here is a nice cutting board made out of a bunch of different woods-Purpleheart, Yellowheart, Jatoba, Padouk, Bloodwood and more.


Here is a little box out of Leopardwood and Maple.

This is our favorite, Quilted Maple and Flame Koa.

Design in Wood '09

The "Design in Wood" exhibit just opened up the San Diego County Fair last week.

Its always fun heading down to the show to see what some of our customers have been up to with some of our woods. Year after year we are always amazed with the work that is on display. With everything from intarsia to furniture there is a little bit of everything at the display.

Here is Dean Moore's entry for this year-"Jewelry Armoire" out of Cocobolo and Curly Koa. Our pictures do not do it justice, this Jewelry box is pretty incredible-

To see Dean's box from last year Click here

19 year old Kyle Toth had one of his bats on display out of Bloodwood and Maple

Check out his Purpleheart bat by Clicking here, very nice work.

Here are a couple sculptures by Kenneth Glaze out of Pink Ivory and Mexican Kingwood

Here is a chest by Local Woodworker Terry Hansen. The Cherry and Walnut didn't come from us but we are pretty sure most of the woods on the top came out of our shop.

It easy to get lost checking out all the different woods in his designs, a little bit of everything-Cocobolo, Bocote, yellowheart, bloodwood, wenge, black palm, goncalo alves, marblwood and more-Its seems as though he has every type of exotic in his boxes.

Del Cover is one of the most highly respected woodworkers in our area. Here we see a floating seat rocker out of wenge and some figured Bubinga.

Check out the massive Cluster Maple Table he made a while back by clicking here

We are almost positive this is one of our 1.5" thick Bubinga Slabs in a table by Rick Moen. Check out the figure in this piece! We still have a couple of these slabs left as of 6-21-09

Here is a Cabinet by local woodworker Jose Eguez out of some of our Wenge and a nice figured piece of Black & White Ebony-that stuff sure is pretty.

Here are some other nice pieces at the show. Can't remember who they are by but we remember having a similar piece of zebrawood in our shop with that sap line-it wouldn't surprise us if it was indeed our wood, either way its a pretty piece.

Look at this piece out of Padouk, it reminds us of a bar that was constructed down in Little Italy in Downtown San Diego in a high end restaurant out of our Padouk with a similar design, very nice.

Another piece by Terry Hanson, we love that design.

Looks like some tulipwood and some curly euc. What else do you see?

Look at this desk out of Ziricote by Jerry Beaudry. Looks like solid Ziricote throughout no Veneers!

Everywhere you look different pieces of all shapes and sizes-

Several turned objects at the show as well, we tried taking some pictures but its kind of tricky taking pictures of objects behind glass-sorry...

Here is another amazing piece by Del Cover that won the Woodcraft Magazine "Award for Excellence in Design".

Its is titled "Balboa Park Bench" and is modeled after the historic Balboa park area here in San Diego.

Tons of different woods in this piece-Check out the wenge in those seats...


Jason Lane actually stoped by the shop earlier in the day and mentioned he had this piece in the show.

This piece is titled "Bow-Tie Lectern" and is constructed out of some of our Ziricote.

There was also a very nice display at the front of the exhibit honoring the late Sam Maloof.

Two of his rockers were also on display which was a nice to see.

The show is going on through the first week of July- we recommend checking it out if your in the area.