The lathe is loading the wood
The lathe is loading the wood
No. 001
Estd. Sanbornton, N.H. · 2026
SNG Woodwork
The workshop of Shiloh N. Gray. Hand-turning bowls, hollow forms, and vessels in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, from salvaged, storm-fall, and foraged burl wood.
A two-part turning. Vessel above, pedestal below, the dark and the cream of spalted maple meeting at the lip.
Chapter V.The Gallery
The next batch is in the workshop. In the meantime, an archive of past work.
Chapter I.The Forest
Eighty-four percent of New Hampshire is forest. Almost all of it is the second forest, the one that grew back after the sheep farms collapsed and the loggers went home, the one that returned around abandoned stone walls.
The wood that comes through this shop is the wood of that returning forest. Storm-fall white birch from the ridges of New Hampton. Sugar maple from a nor'easter on Kearsarge. Cherry burls foraged on logging spurs in Hopkinton and Plymouth. A black walnut from a Concord side street, or an old orchard apple from Ashland or Meredith.
Nothing here was cut for craft. The lathe just lifts what's already in the grain.
Read the workshop's story
IndexOf woods
White Birch
Sugar Maple
Cherry Burl
Black Walnut
Spalted Beech
White Pine
Chapter IV. · Commission
Yard tree taken down for a driveway. Storm-fall on family land. An old maple that finally gave up. Send a piece of your forest, and the workshop will turn it into something to keep.
Or, have a tree you'd rather offer to the workshop? Offer a tree →