SQUEAKY BINDERS
WOODPILE
marks, barks and logs - plus other stuff
6 Designs
Sessile Oak, Eucalyptus, Sycamore, Scots Pine, Beech, Pedunculate Oak.
Available as
Illustrated Notebook
A handy sized wire bound notebook containing 6 ‘Wood Pile’ illustrations with interesting text, with blank, line and squared pages for all your notes - makes a great gift too.
Squeaky’s Special Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our Special Edition handmade Notebook has a truly distinctive hard case cover containing all the illustrations and pages inside ready to be filled with all your lovely words and logs!
Art Cards and Postcards
6 ‘Wood Pile’ designs available as individual Art Cards with envelopes. Postcards available too.
Art Cards Wallet Gift Set
Complete set of 6 Art Cards presented in an attractive folding wallet to keep them safe and for display
Squeaky’s First Choice Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our First Choice Edition handmade notebook contains all the ‘Wood Pile’ illustrations with plenty of room inside for all your creative writings - makes a great gift too.
Mini Journal, Art Card and Pencil Set
‘Wood Pile’ Special Edition Illustrated Notebook and Clamshell Case Set
The ‘Wood Pile’ Range
Wood in all its beauty
Inspiration and technique
I would like to say that I don’t make a habit of it but the truth is that I do and I can’t help it - rooting around in woodpiles that is!
My old mum used to say that I was born with a hammer in my hand and while I can’t vouch for that, some of my earliest memories are of making things from apple boxes and orange crates.
I’ve moved on a bit from those days but basically it’s who I am - it’s what I do - I’m a maker of things.
My first working set of bevel chisels re-fitted with London pattern handles which I turned more years ago than I care to remember from reclaimed ‘Woodpile’ timbers.
And while I have become familiar with many other materials since those childhood days it is still wood in all its wonderful variety that retains a very special place in my affections. Especially those bits that have already had a hard life, have defects or have been put out for burning. This was the only sort of timber I could get hold of when I started woodturning in my early teens by - yes you’ve guessed it - rooting around in woodpiles!
I saw marks and ‘E saw shadows
Yeh, I agree, very sad - blame my old mum, I got it from her. She would come out with funny little asides from time to time such as “I saw Esau sitting on a see-saw” - we never knew what it meant but out of curiosity I recently googled the phase and discovered the song was a big hit for the Ames Brothers in 1956. Seriously!!
Squeaky thinks it’s hilarious and provides all the lyrics in his blog if you really want to complete your education!
On a more mundane note it really was the chainsaw marks and the play of light and shadow on the end grain of the logs in Mike’s barn that caught my attention. I was finishing off my ‘Atlantic’ series of images exploring tool marks at the time so I guess this series is a natural follow on from that earlier work.
No log, tree stump or scrap of timber has been safe since and I am particularly indebted to Rosanna for the boot full of prize specimens that she kindly donated to this worthy cause.
“Logs, Marks and Barks - we do them all!”
— Squeaky B