Moose Vertebra Wine Stopper
Stainless steel wine stopper with rubber seal, topped with miniature moose vertebra hand-carved from spalted maple
MADE TO ORDER ITEM
While I do my best to keep a few of these in stock and ready to go, your item will likely be made-to-order. Please anticipate 3-5 days from order date to shipping time.
Last summer my friend and I took an impromptu roadtrip through Newfoundland, cutting through the centre of the province on 100km of unserviced dirt road. Thrice named (Abitibi-Price Road aka the Red Indian Lake Road, aka the Star Lake Road), the road mainly serves as access for a couple mining and logging operations, but for the intrepid traveler also connects Millertown to Burgeo, cutting out about 2-3 hours of highway and saving us a whole tank of gas.
On the way back we stopped to use nature’s rest facilities, and I walked right into a hunter’s dumping grounds - we counted bones from at least 3 moose! I modeled this piece after one of those vertebrae, that now sits as part of a small bone garden on our porch.
I work primarily with rescued and salvaged wood - this spalted maple is from several trees cut down by the city some time ago. The patterning of spalted maple - swirling cream colors and sharp white and black lines - is caused by fungal decay during the trees lifespan, which is halted and stabilized by the drying process.
Note on variation:
These pieces are hand-carved from rough cut locally sourced lumber. You can expect small variations in colouring, grain pattern, and shape from the depicted image.
Stainless steel wine stopper with rubber seal, topped with miniature moose vertebra hand-carved from spalted maple
MADE TO ORDER ITEM
While I do my best to keep a few of these in stock and ready to go, your item will likely be made-to-order. Please anticipate 3-5 days from order date to shipping time.
Last summer my friend and I took an impromptu roadtrip through Newfoundland, cutting through the centre of the province on 100km of unserviced dirt road. Thrice named (Abitibi-Price Road aka the Red Indian Lake Road, aka the Star Lake Road), the road mainly serves as access for a couple mining and logging operations, but for the intrepid traveler also connects Millertown to Burgeo, cutting out about 2-3 hours of highway and saving us a whole tank of gas.
On the way back we stopped to use nature’s rest facilities, and I walked right into a hunter’s dumping grounds - we counted bones from at least 3 moose! I modeled this piece after one of those vertebrae, that now sits as part of a small bone garden on our porch.
I work primarily with rescued and salvaged wood - this spalted maple is from several trees cut down by the city some time ago. The patterning of spalted maple - swirling cream colors and sharp white and black lines - is caused by fungal decay during the trees lifespan, which is halted and stabilized by the drying process.
Note on variation:
These pieces are hand-carved from rough cut locally sourced lumber. You can expect small variations in colouring, grain pattern, and shape from the depicted image.
Stainless steel wine stopper with rubber seal, topped with miniature moose vertebra hand-carved from spalted maple
MADE TO ORDER ITEM
While I do my best to keep a few of these in stock and ready to go, your item will likely be made-to-order. Please anticipate 3-5 days from order date to shipping time.
Last summer my friend and I took an impromptu roadtrip through Newfoundland, cutting through the centre of the province on 100km of unserviced dirt road. Thrice named (Abitibi-Price Road aka the Red Indian Lake Road, aka the Star Lake Road), the road mainly serves as access for a couple mining and logging operations, but for the intrepid traveler also connects Millertown to Burgeo, cutting out about 2-3 hours of highway and saving us a whole tank of gas.
On the way back we stopped to use nature’s rest facilities, and I walked right into a hunter’s dumping grounds - we counted bones from at least 3 moose! I modeled this piece after one of those vertebrae, that now sits as part of a small bone garden on our porch.
I work primarily with rescued and salvaged wood - this spalted maple is from several trees cut down by the city some time ago. The patterning of spalted maple - swirling cream colors and sharp white and black lines - is caused by fungal decay during the trees lifespan, which is halted and stabilized by the drying process.
Note on variation:
These pieces are hand-carved from rough cut locally sourced lumber. You can expect small variations in colouring, grain pattern, and shape from the depicted image.