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I am a woodturning artisan who lives in the Sonoran Desert. I create functional and decorative Sonoran Desert wood art

for your desk

• Handmade pens from wood and stone
• Handmade mechanical pencils from wood
• Business card holders
   

for your kitchen

• Garlic keepers
• Salt cellars
• Lidded wooden vessels for spices
• Wooden Platters, small and large

for your eyes.

• Unique decorative wooden art that grab you by the eyeballs
• Natural edge wood bowls
• Hollowed wood vessels
• Lidded vessels
• Platters

I use primarily woods I collect in the Sonoran Desert

• Desert ironwood (my favorite)
• Mesquite and mesquite burl
• Palo verde
• Palo brea
• Sweet acacia
• Algerita
• Australian imports: acacias and eucalyptus

I collect most of my own wood that is blown down after a winter storm or dead trees. This is all wood that would otherwise have ended up in a landfill. By recycling these woods I am giving these trees new life as works of art.

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Sonoran Desert Woodturner