Custom Woodworking & Crochet Projects
To Order... Just supply your idea/plan.
I have moved from the
Florida Keys,
and am now living in Escatawpa, Mississippi,
I have stopped charter fishing, but still commercial fish, and
have been building custom wood projects from
the Cypress trees;
water-cured sunken Cypress, Oak, Pine, and other lumber
from the land here on the Gulf Coast.
I have my own sawmill
and planer to produce the lumber,
which makes these projects completely
and uniquely mine, from beginning to end.
I'm offering to make something special for you.
Customize the piece to meet your desires.
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Here are a few pieces that I've made for friends
within the last several months.
The first two photos are of a cart made of Cypress,
made to hold a grill called The Big Green Egg.
Next is a full size Cypress patio table.
Three pictures showing a Wood Duck box made from sunken pecky Cypress.
Last is a small patio table made of Cypress.
Is there something you would like to have made?
Contact me to discuss your desires.
I offer many Choices to suit your preferences; including flexibility based on the several factors that will personalize your project
Email a phone number and I'll call to discuss your project in detail.
You tell me your concept, or supply your plans, for your project.
From there we will confer, until your idea is fully formed in my mind, the way it is in yours.
Call for Payment and Shipping details.
Phone Number is
228-285-7099.
If you have a plan already drawn up and scanned, email it.
Click here to Email your plan.
FAQS
Cypress trees proliferate here in the south along the waterways. Their wood is beautiful, tough, lightweight, and durable even when left outdoors. Cypress was once used to make the hulls of boats.
Sunken Cypress, (sometimes known by locals as blue logs), have cured underwater and have a slightly different hue in the grain. Some of these logs have been underwater for 50 years or more. Changes in water levels of the rivers and bayous allow these sunken logs to surface occasionally, which allows us to locate and float them back to my sawmill.
Pecky Cypress is a section of lumber that had been invaded by insects that gnawed holes and crevices in the living, or recently dead wood, before the log submerged. It adds interest and a nature quality to particular pieces, such as a Wood Duck box.
My current supply of Oak logs was recently brought down from Canton, MS.
There is an abundance of Pine trees on my land, and Pine makes beautiful lumber. The above photo of the small Cypress patio table, is sitting on my deck, which is made of rough 2" unfinished Pine.
Wishing Well
Below is a picture of a pump house, which is a shelter built to protect and disguise the pump; in this case as a well. Instead of the usual square building resembling a dog house, I fashioned a full sized wishing well after the authentic wells once used on real farms. The support beams and drum are cedar, as is the bucket, and the underside of the roof. The roof is made up of cedar shakes. The walls are pressure-treated landscape timbers. This wishing well was highly regarded in the neighborhood, in Grand Bay, Alabama.
Crochet
Donna has retired from running The Glass Bottom Boat, and when not currently operating a Utility Boat offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, she's taken up her crochet hook and is making hat's, scarves, cowls, shawls, mittens, etc.
Feel free to contact her for prices and to discuss what pieces you would like.
Below are a couple of examples of her work; a shawl and a shrug.
Mailing address:
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