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I.Workshop II.The Bench III.Journal IV.Commission V.Gallery

I.Workshop II.The Bench III.Journal IV.Commission V.Gallery

SNG Woodwork loading

The lathe is loading the wood

Colophon

From fallen wood,
lifted form.

SNG Woodwork is 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.

Field Notes

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The workshop of Shiloh Gray

I.

Workshop

The Bench
Commission a piece
Offer a tree
The Journal
About the craft

II.

Studio

Sanbornton, NH
43.55°N · 71.59°W
By appointment only

III.

Elsewhere

Instagram

IV.

The Forest

Sourced from:
Sandwich Notch
Mt. Kearsarge
White Mtn. Nat'l Forest
Hopkinton · Concord · Boscawen

“The gray and the grain. By hand, in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire.”

© 2026 SNG Woodwork. Each piece begins as a fallen tree.

the Lakes Region of New Hampshire · 2026

Chapter III.The Journal

Notes from the
workshop and the woods.

Field notes, history, craft writing. About the forests of New Hampshire, the species the workshop turns, and what one bowl can be made to mean.

An old fieldstone wall running through second-growth New Hampshire forest, the kind that marks land once cleared for sheep.

Fig. 001 · The forests of New Hampshire

No. 001 · May 2, 2026 · 7 min read

The Forests of New Hampshire

How a state of trees became a state of craft.

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IndexAll entries

002.
What Spalting Is002 · March 8, 2026 · 7 min
003.
The Burl, Explained003 · February 14, 2026 · 7 min
004.
Green vs. Dry004 · January 22, 2026 · 8 min
005.
What the Postcard Kept005 · December 15, 2025 · 8 min
006.
An Atlas of the Lakes Region006 · December 1, 2025 · 7 min