Oriental Layered Map
Maps built in layers, engraved with the places that matter.
The work
Things we can make.
It isn’t a catalog. Think of it as evidence. If you catch yourself thinking “I bet they could make…”, you’re probably right.
The pieces
Cocktail Recipe Coasters
A drink recipe that can't get ruined when someone spills a drink on it.
Purpleheart & Spalted Maple Pepper Mills
Sometimes the wood gets to decide what it wants to become.
Lady Liberty on Slate
Photographs and fine artwork engrave on slate in surprising detail.
Your Design Here
Your logo deserves better than another coffee mug.
America 250 Slate
Milestones deserve something heavier than a paper banner.
Spalted Maple & Leather Pet Urn
Small details, kept quiet, so the piece stays timeless.
Birthday Trail
Custom artwork for the people who are hard to shop for.
Ambrosia Maple Urn
Nobody asked the beetle. The beetle did great work.
Purpleheart & Spalted Maple Vase
Dried flowers, pens, or nothing at all.
The Shop Sign
Your words. Your joke. Your questionable sense of humor. Permanently burned into something.
Horse & Wolf Crest
Family crests, clan colors and team mascots, in wood.
Purpleheart & Spalted Maple Bowl
Use it. Enjoy it. Don't baby it.
Nothing under that one yet. Which, honestly, is an invitation.
About the pictures: some of these are photographs. Some are AI renders of pieces that sold before anyone took a decent photo, and a couple are the designs themselves. They’re all labeled, and every one of them is something we can make again.
Don’t see it? That’s normal. Most of what we make started as somebody’s idea.
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Oriental Layered Map
A 12-inch map of Oriental, NC built from seven laser-cut layers, with engraved streets and water depths taken from real NOAA soundings.
Oriental sits on the Neuse River just short of Pamlico Sound and calls itself the Sailing Capital of North Carolina, which makes it a good map: more water than land, and a town that hugs the edges.
Each layer is cut from its own sheet. The top one carries the land, with every street engraved into it. The five below are water, each a little deeper and darker than the last, cut from real depth soundings so the shading actually means something. Stack them flush and the harbor falls away into the river.
- Material
- Basswood layers, hardwood frame
- Process
- Laser cutting + engraving
- Size
- 12 × 12 in; seven 3 mm layers, about an inch deep
- Make it yours
- Any city, coastline, lake or meaningful location.
About the picture: that's an AI render. The real one sold before anyone took a decent photo of it. We can make you another.
- Depth data: NOAA NCEI. Roads and coastline © OpenStreetMap contributors. Decorative, not for navigation.
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Cocktail Recipe Coasters
Slate coasters engraved with a cocktail, its recipe and a line of commentary. Eighteen designs so far, in sets or mixed to order.
Each coaster gets the glass, the recipe and a little editorial opinion. The Whiskey Sour’s is “A little sour. Like your ex.” The Martini is “Classy with bad decisions inside.”
So far: Negroni, Daiquiri, Paloma, Espresso Martini, Bloody Mary, Sangria, Cosmopolitan, Old Fashioned, Aperol Spritz, Long Island Iced Tea, French 75, Mai Tai, Martini, Margarita, Mojito, Moscow Mule, Manhattan and Whiskey Sour. Pick a set, mix your own, or send us the one your bar is known for.
- Material
- Natural slate
- Process
- Laser engraving
- Make it yours
- Your house cocktail, your bar's logo, a family recipe, or a set of whatever you actually drink.
About the picture: that's an AI render. The real one sold before anyone took a decent photo of it. We can make you another.
Personalize it
Purpleheart & Spalted Maple Pepper Mills
Hand-turned pepper mills in purpleheart, banded with spalted maple and edged in braided cord.
Purpleheart comes off the lathe a fairly ordinary brown and turns purple as it meets light and air. The band in the middle is spalted maple, which gets its dark lines from fungus working through the wood before it was ever cut. Braided cord covers the seams.
Two shapes so far: tall and waisted, or short with a round cap. They look better as a pair, which works out, because salt exists.
- Material
- Purpleheart, spalted maple, braided cord
- Process
- Hand turned
- Make it yours
- Shape, height, wood combination, and a name or date engraved on the base.
About the picture: that's an AI render. The real one sold before anyone took a decent photo of it. We can make you another.
Personalize it
Lady Liberty on Slate
The Statue of Liberty against a waving flag, laser engraved into natural slate.
Slate engraves light against dark, which suits detail like this: the folds of the robe, the rays of the crown, the stars in the flag. The shading comes from the laser itself. The harder it hits the stone, the paler that spot turns.
- Material
- Natural slate
- Process
- Laser engraving
- Make it yours
- Your photo, your artwork, your family, your dog. If it has contrast, it'll probably engrave.
Personalize it
Your Design Here
Our sample pieces, in slate and in marble with a wood top, engraved with a placeholder that says exactly what it's for.
These are our sample pieces, and they’re honest about it: weddings, corporate, logos, QR menus, monograms, bulk and B2B, right there on the piece.
Swap “Your design here” for your actual design and you’ve got a coaster set, a client gift, a table marker or a QR menu that doesn’t blow away.
- Material
- Slate; marble with a wood top
- Process
- Laser engraving
- Make it yours
- Logos, QR codes, monograms, event names and dates. One piece or a few hundred.
About the picture: that's the design itself, not a photo of the finished piece.
Personalize it
America 250 Slate
United States of America, 250 years, 1776–2026: an eagle, Lady Liberty and the scales of justice, engraved in slate.
Made for the 250th. The layout borrows from old commemorative plaques: a banner across the top, an eagle up front and the dates set in a seal. All of the depth and shading comes from how the laser treats the stone.
Swap the eagle for your logo and the dates for yours, and it’s an anniversary plaque, a dedication stone or a sign for the clubhouse.
- Material
- Natural slate
- Process
- Laser engraving
- Make it yours
- Anniversaries, milestones, organizations, reunions and dedications, with your dates on them.
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Spalted Maple & Leather Pet Urn
A turned urn in spalted maple and walnut with cross-laced leather bands, engraved with a name, a paw print and the years that mattered.
This one was designed for Sadie. The name is on the walnut lid, the name and the years are inside it, and a paw print is pressed into each leather band. None of it shouts. The idea was a piece that still looks right on a shelf ten years from now.
The body is spalted maple, turned between a walnut top and base, with the leather inlaid flush and laced with a cross stitch.
- Material
- Spalted maple, walnut, vegetable-tanned leather
- Process
- Hand turned, leather inlay, laser engraving
- Size
- About 8 in tall and 6 in across, with a 2¾ in opening
- Make it yours
- A name on the lid; the name and dates inside it; paw prints in the leather; something on the bottom only you know is there.
About the picture: that's an AI render. The real one sold before anyone took a decent photo of it. We can make you another.
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Birthday Trail
A custom birthday piece for a mountain biker: a rider in silhouette, a trail marker and a topo line that ends at the X.
Kathleen rides. So the art puts a rider on the ridge with pines and peaks behind, a wooden “Birthday Trail” sign pointing the way, and a dotted route across the topo lines to an X marking the spot.
Silhouette art like this is drawn to engrave and cut cleanly, so the same design can end up on paper, wood or slate.
- Process
- Custom illustration
- Make it yours
- Their hobby, their dog, their trail, their name. Printed, engraved or cut in layers.
About the picture: that's the design itself, not a photo of the finished piece.
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Ambrosia Maple Urn
A hand-turned urn in ambrosia maple under a dark wooden lid, with the streaks the beetles left running top to bottom.
Ambrosia maple gets its streaks from the ambrosia beetle, which tunnels into the tree and brings a fungus along for the ride. The stains follow the tunnels, so no two pieces come out alike and every one looks planned. It wasn’t. That’s the point.
- Material
- Ambrosia maple, with a contrasting wooden lid
- Process
- Hand turned
- Make it yours
- Size, wood, and a name, dates or a message engraved on the lid or base.
Personalize it
Purpleheart & Spalted Maple Vase
A hand-turned vase in purpleheart with a spalted maple band and braided cord, to match the mills and the bowl.
The mills and the bowl needed a sibling. It holds dried flowers, pens or nothing at all, and still earns its spot on the shelf.
- Material
- Purpleheart, spalted maple, braided cord
- Process
- Hand turned
- Make it yours
- Height, shape, woods, and an engraved message on the base.
About the picture: that's an AI render. The real one sold before anyone took a decent photo of it. We can make you another.
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The Shop Sign
An engraved wooden sign listing everything we do, which turned out to be a lot of sign.
Slate coasters, glassware, cutting boards, keychains, wooden signs, pet memorials, wedding pieces and personalized gifts, in wood, slate, leather, glass, acrylic and metal. Yes, it’s an ad. It’s also a fair demonstration of what a laser does to a nice piece of wood.
Your design. Your logo. Your idea. We put it on stuff.
- Material
- Hardwood board
- Process
- Laser engraving
- Make it yours
- Business signs, porch signs, bar signs, menus and anything that needs a QR code.
About the picture: that's an AI render. The real one sold before anyone took a decent photo of it. We can make you another.
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Horse & Wolf Crest
A carved heraldic shield: a horse and a wolf, back to back, over a blue and white saltire.
A horse and a wolf, back to back, over a blue and white saltire, with light and dark woods doing the work that paint would do on a flat crest.
If your family has a crest, send it. If it doesn’t, we can help you make one up. Nobody has to know.
- Material
- Mixed hardwoods
- Process
- Carving + layering
- Make it yours
- Your crest, your colors, your animals, your motto.
About the picture: that's an AI render. The real one sold before anyone took a decent photo of it. We can make you another.
Personalize it
Purpleheart & Spalted Maple Bowl
A hand-turned purpleheart bowl banded with spalted maple and braided cord. Made to be used.
The same combination as the pepper mills: purpleheart, a band of spalted maple and braided cord at the seams. It’s finished to be used, not to sit on a shelf being dusted. Use it. Enjoy it. Don’t baby it.
- Material
- Purpleheart, spalted maple, braided cord
- Process
- Hand turned
- Make it yours
- Size, wood combination, and a name or message engraved underneath.
- Care
- Food-safe polyurethane finish. Wipe clean with water. No microwave, no dishwasher.
About the picture: that's an AI render. The real one sold before anyone took a decent photo of it. We can make you another.