Cherry Jewelry Box
(She almost ate me for breakfast!)
Odds Ends
Cherry Jewelry Box
(She almost ate me for breakfast!)
Cherry Jewelry Box
(She almost ate me for breakfast!)
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
Assorted Bangles 
Bubinga Wood and Leapard Wood Bangles 
Burbinga Wood Bangle Test 4 
Padauk and Leapard Wood Bangles 
Test 6 
Assorted Bangles 
Zebrawood Bangle 
Bubinga Bangles 
Test 10 
Test 11 
Test 12 
Zebrawood2 Bangle 
Bubinga Wood with Turquoise Bangle 
Yellowheart Wood Bangle
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.
Demo Hickory Bowl with Turquoise Inlay 
Cottonwood Kiva w/ Kachinas Cottonwood Kiva w/ Kachinas Spalted Maple Kiva w Kachinas
