Wood lamps, jewelry boxes, and wooden accessories
Hello, and welcome to the home page of Mountain Exotics.
Imagine a piece of wood so desirable that a green, rough-sawn, unfinished chunk about the size of your leg may fetch upwards of fifteen hundred dollars. We thus describe both a good 'gun stock blank', as well as the woods that we use in our English walnut accessory pieces (sorry ... no gun stocks).
In a tree-shrouded studio in the Sierra Foothills of California, we fashion heirloom quality lamps, jewelry boxes, and other wooden accessory pieces out of the finest hardwoods available, with nontoxic, hand-rubbed fine furniture finishes, using traditional methods of workmanship.
All of our pieces are made from solid wood; no veneers are used. And, the woods we use are so exceptional that we use no stain whatsoever - none is needed - the colors and grain you see are nature's work alone. All we 'add' is a natural beeswax finish that is applied and rubbed four times by hand. (Anyone want to arm-wrestle?)
Although we are very proud of our handiwork, we are just as proud that the woods we use in our designs come from environmentally sound sources. Our walnut, for example, comes from commercial walnut orchards that have ceased producing. But for our intervention, these trees would be bulldozed (literally) into a pile, doused with kerosene, and set on fire (or perhaps sold for firewood). And, our big-leaf maple (such as the burl used above to sculpt our logo) is scavenged from stumps abandoned after logging is completed in mixed-conifer forests.
You can find more information about the materials we use by following the link above.
By the way, the reason this page looks like crap is because you are using a browser that cannot read frames. C'mon, update your browser already, please!
a page showing our products
jewelry boxes
deluxe jewelry box
treasure boxes
tibetan incense boxes
hand mirrors
table and floor lamps
vases
link about our wood
spalted maple burl
picture of spalted maple burl
neat pictures of burl
where you can find us in person
about us
an on-line order form that probably won't work for you because you have such a crappy browser
orderform
We craft heirloom quality wooden lamps, jewelry boxes and other accessories with fine furniture finishes.
table lamps, wood jewelry boxes, wooden floor lamps, tibetan incense boxes, hand mirrors, handmirrors, bud vases, wooden office accessories, wood desk accessories, pencil holders, pencilcup, pencil cups, pen racks, business card holders, napkin holders, letter holders, wood furniture, burled woods, burlwood, burled walnut, spalted maple, English walnut, madrona, rosewood, ebony, red gum eucalyptus.