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This is a custom ordered cedar bench I recently made for a client here on Pender Island. It is 6′ long, and made all from salvaged old growth red cedar…
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These hand split cedar gates double as a vehicle access and as a pedestrian entrance. A good example of what can be shipped and reassembled, these double gates and arbour…
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This project was commissioned by a client all the way across Canada in Nova Scotia. The client had acquired a beautiful custom made bell that hangs from an elaborate metal…
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This handsplit cedar sign was built for a property called Nighthawk Hill with a conservation covenant recently placed on it. It is a lovely property on Pender Island with a…
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prepping for drystack stone retaining wall This was a fun project building a short retaining wall for wonderful new cabin on South Pender Island. I used all local sandstone, which…
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These are two signs that I recently made for a client in Hawaii. They are both made from salvaged old growth red cedar that I have hand split. The address…
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Back in the fall, a local Pender writer came by for an interview with Colin for the Spring issue of Aqua Magazine, a Salt Spring Island publication that promotes the…
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This past August I was asked to build a custom hand split cedar bed for a client in Saratoga Beach, on Vancouver Island. I have made beds before and was…
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This has been my biggest project this year by far taking over 3 months to complete. This project is a sea wall designed to entomb an archaeological site discovered during…
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This summer, during a wood collecting excursion, I found a single piece of cedar on the beach that was almost seven feet long and four feet across, but was only…
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Another address sign I made recently… This sign borrows the rustic torii gate style to get its main shape. It is made all from salvaged red cedar driftwood that I…
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This sign project was fun. I used some nice curvy red cedar for the posts and cap. The sign is two pieces of cedar bookended to create a dark to…
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Being a splitter of cedar by trade, Colin naturally decided to split all his own shakes for the roof of his new workshop by hand. Having many piles of cedar…
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As we move into the first week of October, it remains the driest summer on record here on the west coast, parching the gardens, drying up wells, and raising the…
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By early August, we were ready to begin adding the cob walls onto the stone foundations for Colin’s workshop that were built during July. The door bucks were assembled and…