Cherry Side Table with Wine Rack Cherry Liquor Cabinet w/ Ash Top Belt Buckle Feng Shui symbols inlaid w/ Turquoise Bolo. Tiger Maple w/ Turquopise Inlays
Cherry Jewelry BoxCherry Cigar Box Mexican bench Money Clip. Yellowheart, Padauk Tiger Maple w/ Figure of Kokopelli Tiger Maple Cheese Board w/ Cherry Blossoms Cherry Cheese Board w/ Peace Symbol Inlaid w/ Turquoise South African Leopard- Tiger Maple Cheese Board
(She almost ate me for breakfast!)Kokopelli- Tiger Maple Cheese Board
Bangles Galore
I need to blame my wife for getting me hooked on bangles. She saw an advertisement in a magazine and said, “You can make these!” So simple in design, yet beautiful in appearance, these bangles have been a big hit with everyone
EAST MEETS WEST
The Torii Gate is only found at Shinto shrines. Its purpose is to divide our physical world from the spiritual. Its open construction allows for one’s prayers to more easily pass between these two dimensions. These Torii Gate stands and gongs will certainly beckon whatever spirit moves you.
Padauk, Yellowheart, and MahoganyGong East Meets West 1 East Meets West 2 Yellowheart, Purpleheafrt, and MahoganyGong East Meets West 4 Yellowheart, Purpleheart. MahoganyGong Purpleheart, Yellowheart, MahoganyGong Purple Heart, Mahogany, Yellowheart Gong Mahagony, Yelllowheart, and Black Walnut Gong Mahagony, Yellowheart, Black Walnut Gong Padauk, Yellowheart, and Mahaghony Gong
El Gallo’s Table Gallery
All wood slabs and bases have been made from wood harvested from a natural growth, sustainable forest located in western Illinois.
The wood slabs have been air and kiln dried for at least one year, and prepared and sanded by hand. The completed table and bench tops have been finished with multiple coats of polymerized Tung oil sealer, followed by multiple coats of Tung oil or hand rubbed varnish.
Mahogany table with Ash Runner
(48″L x 20″H x 18″w)Black Walnut Side Table with Sandstone Inlay 3 Entrance Hall Oak Table with Spanish Tile Inlay Cherry Table with Gong Black Walnut 2 Side Table with Sandstone Inlay Black Walnut Bench with Slippery Elm Base Black Walnut Coffee Table with Turquoise Cherry side-table with Wine Rack Black Walnut Side Table with Sandstone Inlay 1 Black Walnut Side Table with Sandstone Inlay 4 “Oops”. Elm Entrance/Sofa Table with Italian Tile Black Walnut Table with Elm Butterfly Inlays Black Walnut Slab Table Cherry Slab Table with Mahogany Base 2
EL Gallo’s Bowl Gallery
The bowls have all been turned ‘wet’, allowed to air dry for a minimum of a month, and then completed. The turned bowls were finished with a mixture of polymerized Tung oil, and a variety of varnish finishes.
Southwest Style Bowls Spalted Maple Bowl Segmented Oak Bowl w/ Turquoise Inlays Segmented Oak Bowls 2 with Turquoise Inlays Cherry Kiva Bowl with Kachinas Maple Segmented Bowl Segmented Oak Bowl with Turquoise Inlays Spalted Mapkle Bowl Cottonwood Kiva Bowl with Kachinas Hickory Bowl with Turquoise Inlay Spalted Maple Red Gum With Turquoise Stone Inlays Bocote Bowl w/ Turquoise & Frog Hickory Bowl
El Gallo’s Kiva Gallery
These turned bowl represents the Kiva, the center of the religious and ceremonial life of the Hopi. The Kiva is typically a single room, wholly or partly subterranean, that is entered by way of a ladder through an opening in the flat roof.
The Kachina doll, seen here emerging from the Kiva, are the symbolic representations in human form of the spirits of plants, animals, birds, places or ancestors. The Kachina’s major concerns are rain, fertility, rich harvest, good health, long life, and achieving balance and harmony in nature.
As Kachina spirits emerge from the Kivas, they adopt human forms, living in the midst of the Hopis for about six months of each year. They appear in December, around the time of Winter Solstice, increasing their number during the ceremonial season of February and in July return to their spirit world.