A napkin holder along with a paper towel holder made from Koa.

Had someone place and order for something to hang on their wall to remind them of our Island and all the turtles they see here when they visit. Made from Koa. The size of the Island and large turtle is 12” tall X 11” wide. She has ordered many items with turtles.

We have two dogs that love us allot, but not together….they fight when they are out and I am around…that is how I nearly had my leg chewed up a coupe months ago…trying to break up their fight over me…Yes I still have the dogs…wasn’t their fault. Anyway, I decided it was time to build a better cage for them. These are 8’ deep 8’ wide each. The bin at the end is where we store the trash. Still have to paint them.

The picture isn’t good…right before I mailed this order out I thought to take a fast picture. A customer place the order on our website. That’s a small surfboard on the bottom. I also made the Dowels. Everything made from Koa. Customer must have liked it because they place another order for Turtles.

This one is made of Koa with Mango drawer handles…you can hang necklace’s in the long drawer.

This bandsaw box is made from Mango with Koa drawers and mango drawer handles

Leg all healed and back in the shop once again. These are for our son and future daughter in law that are getting married next week. Letter K is made from Sugar pine and Redwood, the cat is Koa. They love cats and love the redwood trees.

This piece of Koa has been setting around for a long time…I think it was a left over piece from another box. Sized about 10” tall X 4” wide and 3” thick. Instead of a clock insert, I also offer it with a place to display a small picture

Somewhere along the line, I traded some local woods for some grown on the Mainland and this piece of Pecan has been setting there just waiting. I found this design on the web and it was a good fit. Sized about 13” tall X 5” wide X 3 1/2” thick with the drawers lined. Really fun wood to work with…sure wish I had more of it.

Made from lovely Hawaiian Koa this is another of what I call my series of “Living Tree” line of boxes. This one is about 12 1/2” tall X 8” wide and 4 1/2” thick. I lined the drawers with spray on felt and used Koa for the pulls. I try to make the out line of the tree “pop out”. As you can see from my boxes, I do like working with Koa.

One of our daughters is having a baby in the coming weeks and we have been making things to display in little Olive’s bedroom. I did the scrolled cut outs, but my Artist wife if the one that adds the color and beauty to the items. We did a series of Fairies that are sized about 15” cut from 3/8” plywood.

Not allot of fancy cutting on this one…sized about 20” wide X 20” tall. Cut on the scroll saw. My wife is the paint Artist in the family and one of our Daughter’s owns a small chicken ranch and this is her logo.

Just a simple tray puzzle that looks allot better after the wife paints it.

A simple car sign cut on my scroll saw and had the wife paint it…letters are cut into the wood. Used white pine..
This was a pattern found on the web that I increased and changed a bit.

One of our daughters that raises and sells rare chickens and growing eggs all over the world. So, I made here a Chicken bandsaw box…(I’m going to visit her this week) Size is approx. 13” tall, 4 1/2” thick and 12” wide at the bottom. I used a local wood called Monkey Pod and flocked the drawers.

A friend is turning 60 next week and loves cats….so the wife wanted to give her a Cat Box. I found a pattern on line with the out side design, but I changed the drawers. It is made from a local grown wood called Monkey Pod…if you look very close to the back of the box, you might see some pink color in the wood. This box is about 13” tall, 4 1/2” thick and 7” across the bottom. Handles are made from Koa.

Haven’t painted and it’s not as fancy as others, but it home to our 6, 7 week old chicks. I built it 4’X8’ with a 8’X15’ run 5’ tall. That big tank in the background is our catchment tank. We receive our water to that tank either delivered or from house gutters and then pump it into the house through filters. The black tank will be moved and pineapples and banana trees planted there. Yes that is all lava rock with some cinder added (the red stuff)

After a very busy last week and weekend (we renewed our wedding vows and a 60th Birthday party for my wife here at home) I was able to get into the shop this week. I make 2 large boxes( plus finished up 14 small bandsaw boxes…still drying from the last coat of poly). Here are the two larger boxes and the tall 3 drawer is one of the small boxes. The large one’s are approx. 13” long X 5” tall X 4” thick…the small one is 5” tall X 2” wide X 2” deep. These three are made from Koa and have about 5 coats of MinWax Fast Drying Poly on them. As you can see, Koa does come in many different designs…which is something I really like. Hope you like them

Here are two more of the small bandsaw boxes I have been making. I have really enjoyed making the larger boxes and had a store owner asked if I could make them smaller….wasn’t sure how they would turn out, but they seem to like them. I can go smaller, but will have to use a 1/8” blade instead of the 3/16” I think…the curves will be easier that way. These were made from Koa and have 5 coats of brush on lacquer.

A Gallery I sell to asked if I could make smaller boxes. They sell allot of small regular boxes and thought these might go over with the customers as well. I just reduced the pattern size on other large boxes I have made and gave them a try. Found out they were pretty easy to cut…just have to watch where your fingers are located. The first one is a shell design made from Avacado, the others are made from Koa…the last two had not had a finish , shows you what raw and finished Koa look like.