New Line of Carved Cedar Mantels and Shelves from America’s Heartland

L.T. Pruitt Relief Carving of Shelbyville, Indiana, has launched a new band of abatement carved cedar copse mantels and shelves for home builders and remodelers who ambition to bottle a area of American attitude and ability or of their own ancestors ancestry in their home or appointment – what bigger way than to accept it beautifully carved in the the rich, balmy tones of a cedar mantel or shelf.

Raised in a photography business, Lee Pruitt began in 2002 to advance the Woodburytype accurate angel action into a adjustment of abatement copse carving. Lee has back acquired into agenda imaging and abstraction to actualize a accepted band of carved copse mantels and shelves as able-bodied as alms an absolute amount of custom designs such a ancestors portraits, mottos, admired quotations or any aggregate of images and words that a chump would like to see carved in wood. These images, mainly of wildlife scenes, are again rendered in abatement in admirable Northern White Cedar. The accepted mantels and shelves appear in three sizes, 44”, 64” and 96”, but custom carvings can be done to any ambit on logs up to 10’ in length.

“In a apple of Made in China ‘wood’ articles that are usually not even copse but fabricated of resin, I capital to do something that was absolute and that captured aspects of the American ancestry or ancestors traditions, fabricated in America, one mantel or shelf at a time, and which brought into people’s homes a acidity of this country’s attitude or preserved something that was important to the family,” says Lee Pruitt. Operating in a 175 year old brick farmhouse, with all his accessories housed in a barn, Lee affairs to aggrandize the company’s ambit above mantels and shelves to cover autogenous and exoteric doors and chiffonier facings with the aforementioned copse abstraction techniques and themes, about all of which are his own and bare elsewhere.

“When you are abstraction copse you can use all the attention you want, but the copse is the wood, the knotholes are the knotholes and anniversary area that we carve is absolutely unique,” he says. “I apprehend these mantels and shelves will become ancestors heirlooms and will be accepted for ancestors to come.” With this in apperception perhaps, some of the admired custom capacity requested are ancestors portraits, names and admired quotes. The customer’s acuteness is the alone absolute if it comes to custom designs. The beautifully-carved mantels accommodate an adorable centerpiece for new or adapted homes, capturing the aspect of America's ancestry in a mantel or shelf which will endure for generations.

L. T. Pruitt Relief Carvings has a website, ltpruitt.com, area the plan can be apparent and orders can be placed. The aggregation ships throughout the US.