Wolfstone Wearables

Claire whittaker

“All things elm ”

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  • Inside outside abstract study in wych elm

    Inside outside abstract stu...

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    £25.00

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  • Moon brooch in wych elm

    Moon brooch in wych elm

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    £9.00

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  • Troll cross and  badge set in wych elm

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About Wolfstone Wearables

Wolfstone Wearables

I spend my time fighting my woodpile and testing the breaking points of milling bits and wood grain

This particular venture started the night the 300 year wych elms and the big ash lost to the wind luckily they fell away from the house that night
Tho next time i may not be so lucky. Finding them in morning light it stuck us that they were sent by the weather gods and too good a resource to let the big house burn on there ever so greedy fire
Then we set about turning very large trees into movable sized pieces armed only with a chainsaw hammer and wedges and a sawmill of that consisted of a generator engine with no starter rope and mismatched tyres for the blade to run round needless to say the fact they ended up as planks was amazing to all
When we started the plan was for furniture and harp necks for our Wolfstone Harp range which i have used some of the ash for
But the elm had many burrs and fascinating grain and spalts that look like the landscapes
and we found ourselves lost in the possibilities
Currently i am centering on Celtic and viking style belts and wooden jewellery with the assistance or a small cnc machine a present to myself for my 48th birthday
Unfortunately John the man who started this venture and many others with me is no longer with us and just when the wood was dry to boot so every piece i make or shelf i build the mantle-piece ive yet to finish is done with love and to not let his hard work have been in vain
Now if only i could get Red the lurcher that replaced him to carry planks and sharpen planes