Inlaid Mineral Celtic Knot Platter #328
Piece #328 – Sycamore & Calcite – 13″ by 1″ – SOLD
Inlaid Mineral Dragon Fly Plate #327
Piece #327 – Sycamore & Calcite – 7″ by 1″ – SOLD
Inlaid Mineral Gecko Plate #326
Piece #326 – Willow – 9″ by 1″ – SOLD
Small Natural Edge Hors d’œuvre Tray #320
Piece #320 – Bradford Pear & Calcite – 10″ by 8″ – SOLD
Inlaid Orange Calcite Wide Rim Dish #304
Piece #304 – Spalted Sycamore / Orange Calcite – 9.5″ x 2″ – SOLD
This spalted sycamore has unbelievable spalting patterns. The array of spalting is nothing short of spectacular. 
Do you see any suggestive spalting images in this piece? Isn’t Mother Nature fun? :)
Calcite Inlaid Butterfly Platter #302
Piece #302 – Spalted Maple / Opaque Calcite – 14.5″ x 1″ – SOLD
This is a specimen example of spalted Maple. The spalting lines suggested clouds to my imagination. What better place for a soaring butterfly? The butterfly is inlaid with opaque calcite dyed blue and black. I love to use opaque calcite dyed with the colors of an unlimited palette. 
The dying process is simple. After I have crushed the calcite I put it in an old metal coffee pot. I drip in a drop or two of the colored dye of my choice. Next I drip in denatured alcohol to dilute the dye to the shade I desire. Swoosh it around to make sure the dye covers every facet of the calcite crystals. I add more dye or alcohol if needed to achieve my desired shade of the color. When I am satisfied with the color I throw in a lit match to burn off the alcohol. As the alcohol burns I swoosh the calcite around some more to make sure all of the alcohol is burned off. When the flames go out I dump out the dyed calcite and spread it out to cool. After it has cooled I sift the calcite using varying sizes of kitchen cooking sieves. This gives me five sizes of calcite crystals to work with. Click here for more on inlay process.
The great thing about dying opaque calcite is two fold. One – your color palette is unlimited; two – during the sanding and polishing step the dye is removed from the surface facet of the crystal and you are seeing the color through the calcite to the bottom dyed facet. This gives the inlay depth and dimension. 
Bradford Pear Butterfly Inlay #271
Piece #271 – Bradford Pear / Calcite Inlay – 10″ x 8″ – SOLD
Cardinal Inlaid Platter #279
Piece #279 – Magnolia & Calcite – 11.5″ dia x 2.5″ – Sold
This 12 inch platter has a cardinal sitting on a bare twig inlay made of calcite. The inlay process is the same I used on piece #258 – Magnolia with Calcite Inlay.
Here is the carved out design. 
Next I painted the bottom of the carved out part the appropriate color. 
Placing the dyed calcite comes next.
After gluing, sanding and polishing the inlay is complete.
Inlaid Cherry Tree #245
Piece #245 – Maple & Calcite – 5.5″ dia by 1.5″ – July, 2011 – Sold
Celtic Dragon #239
Piece #239 – Oak with Inlaid Dragon – 10.5″ dia by 1″ – SOLD
Spalted Oak Drink Coasters
$50.00 per set of four
These beautiful spalted oak coasters were just made for your man cave. There is nothing dainty about these babies. UNGH…UNGH…UNGH… They are 1.75 inches tall and 4.5 inches in diameter. They have a “thirstystone” in the middle to suck up the moister that condenses on the outside of your big manly tumbler. For easy storage they stack on top of one another.
http://www.thirstystone.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=TSC-C-IS
Drink Coasters
I gave this set of four drink coasters to my cousin Kerry at Thanksgiving 2009.
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These coasters are made from oak, cedar and maple. The center is a Thirstystone. (http://www.thirstystone.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=TSC-MONOGRAMS)