Wood-burning gift ideas
Every one of these starts as driftwood foraged off a Lake Erie beach, cut and cured, drawn with a hot tip and finished with beeswax from the family farm's hives. Nothing is stained or inked — that colour is heat. Buy at the booth, or email and I'll hold a piece with a name on it.
Under $20
The whole bench sits low. These are the pieces people buy at the booth without thinking about it too hard, and the ones that get worn every day afterwards.
Pendant alone
One driftwood pendant, burned by hand, no lace. Good for someone who already wears a chain they like.
$15
Necklace — pendant + buckled hemp lace
The complete thing: pendant plus adjustable hemp lace from a provider here in town. Nothing is stained or inked — that colour is heat.
$20
Sage set — 3 bundles + burning block
Three herb bundles grown by hand in clay pots, plus a burning block cut from the same driftwood as the pendants.
$10
Blank hemp lace
Lace on its own — a stocking-filler for someone who already has a pendant.
$10
Personalized
Letters burn well above about 8mm, which is most of a pendant face. Below that the strokes start to close up and I will say so before you pay.
Initials or name pendant
Two or three characters across the grain, on hemp lace. Send the spelling exactly as you want it burned — I burn what you write.
$20
Custom motif emblem
A shape that means something to one person: a coastline, a dog's ear, a band's mark. The cord unclips, so it converts to a necklace.
$20
Custom signs and wall pieces
Names, house numbers, a line someone says too often. Quoted per piece once I know the board size and the wording.
By quote
For the adventurer
Simple line work at pendant size: ridgelines, a compass rose, a treeline. These hold up because they are silhouettes, and silhouettes are what heat is good at.
Mountain or compass pendant
A ridge or a compass burned across the growth rings, so the ring lines cut through the drawing. That is on purpose.
$20
Car-mirror emblem
Hung short so it does not swing into your sightline. For the person whose car is where they actually live.
$20
Want to know what's on the bench?
For the plant person
Sage grown by hand in clay pots and propagated from cuttings — garden-grown, never wild-harvested. Sold as a bundle and a block, nothing more claimed than that.
Sage set — 3 bundles + burning block
The block catches ash and takes a scorch mark of its own over the years, which is half the point of it.
$10
Sage refill — 3 bundles
Three more bundles when the first set runs out. Keep the block.
$7
The experience gift
Half an hour at the booth instead of an object in a box. They make two necklaces: one goes home with them, one stays on the shelf, and they get 11% when theirs sells.
Workshop seat — 30 minutes at the booth
I set the heat, show the grip, and let the first wobbly strokes go on a scrap. Ages ten and up with an adult sitting alongside.
$49
Gift questions, answered plainly
Ordering a custom piece for a date? Read how custom orders, lead times and deposits work.