What materials do you use for my creations?

-Pieces of fallen wood or from pruning trees. I cut by using a little axe each piece in smaller parts and waiting months before it is ready fir carving. There are also some kind of particular wood that I would like to work, but such trees are not growing in my region, so I’m purchasing it from a wooden store or from online sellers .

How do you realize your hand carved jewelry?
-Preparing a design to copy on wood, or drawing it directly on wood by my fantasy. After cutting the part of wood out the design, I prepare my sharpen tools , in most of cases knives and some gauges, choosing a righ size, thickness of the blade or the knife’s tip, for a specific part of carving. At finished work, I apply a natural oil (tung oil) finishing, at least 3 times, once per day, enough to protect wood and giving it a beautiful final effect.

Are your products really handmade?
-Only handmade! I like to publish photos or videos of the work in progress on my social media, so you can see the unique pieces that is going to be at the end. Showing also often my mistakes, and leaving some Parker’s that may look imperfect.

Do you use electric tools?
-Only some small tool for cutting out the piece and a little Dremel with some a specific bits when I’d like to get a particular effect of the hair for example, but often I prefer do everything by knives to limit the powder of the wood.

Can I ask you to make a personalized custom order ?
-I can realize a personalized work, that can be jewelry or something different, just enough big for smaller tools that I use. After you tell me your request, I can advise what is possible to do, and also helping you to take a right decision if you may not be sure at all what you would like.

Do you realize a personal item?
-By contacting me, is possible to ask for a personalized custom order, telling me your preferences or of the person if you would like it as a gift.
We can decide together about the kind of wood, the size, the design if you have not one specific ideas sending me yours.
You can tell me if you prefer something simpler or detailed, that I explain you some examples about difficulty and necessary time for realizing it, and the cost comparing the time of the work. And if you know already your budget, I will know exactly how detailed the piece will be for the right range of price.
Usually I finish to carve a piece of jewelry (for ring a little more time)in one day. Simpler design and low relief carvings about 0,5h to 2h. For detailed low relief and simpler high relief 3 to 5h. Over 6h more elaborate work. If you would like a very particular work of realistic details or 3D, the work may be about a few days. For a different creation than jewelry that could be bigger, could take days or weeks, depending again difficulty of details and how is the hard the wood used, but in this case is preferred to use a softer wood.

After your personalized item is done, will be shipped until 3-4 business days, because of necessary time for oil finishing, drying and packaging.

What are details if I ask for a personalized ring?
-Making my rings is a more particular work than other jewelry. Even a simpler ring takes more time to do than a simple pendant. I carve simple style of rings like just the band where I can engrave some word , phrases or also carving a low relief design, and the band can be of different shape, as you prefer. You can also ask me for a very particular ring with a design out the band, that could be a symbol, flowers, leaves, animals, and more, and it does depend how detailed you would like the design.

The ring’s wide depends on your preferences, but also the design, like for example less than 1cm to over 2cm large, if needs more space to work something very detailed.
The thickness is a little bit more than metal rings, although I prefer use a harder wood, especially because I’m not using some chemical finishing products to make it be stronger, but just applying natural oil finishing. My particular rings suit mostly to wearing for some special occasion, instead of all day and night. You can ask me for any personalized size. Just in some cases if the design would be difficult, I need to value if it could be carved on a smaller size.

What wood do you use for your creations?
-Any wood is different, for the color, textures, hardness, grain aspect and direction. Even one piece of wood could have different shades of color or the grain, so I choose the part where to make a design that could be right for a specific work that I am planning to do.
Most of my creations are in Italian walnut wood, which has some particular parts with compact and irregular grain, it’s hard and not easy for working, but allows be to work on very small surface and does not break so easily like other wood. Similar wood to carve particular details is plum wood that I use, which gets a very beautiful effect after oil finishing, with its different colors. Olive, oak and American walnut that I choose for simpler or medium difficulty of details, are softer, but not as soft as lime or maple wood are, that I prefer use for some bigger sculptures. One of wood that I need to purchase is the ancient Bog oak, that is all black , which is not possible to find it in my country.

Are wooden products durable in time?
-As many materials, even wood needs care because in time it may change its color or be less shine. As trees are always exiting on the earth, and some can live centuries, even wood worked from it, if treated well, it may be durable as well for many years.

How do I take care about my wood artisan items?
-Although the oil protection from humidity, could be good to apply sometimes an organic oil for wood, and after a few minutes dry it with a cloth if the piece is simpler or using a soft brush (like toothbrush for little pieces), to remove oil into details pieces. That could happen if you would like to make it look shine again, that wood can lose a little this effect in time, but even faster because of water. So my advice is avoid long contact with water, like swimming or bathing.

Do you offer a special package for gift?
-My creations are shipped already in nice pouches or boxes with design of my logo. If you specify me in notes that your order is for a gift, I can use my boxes, or you can ask me for something personalized even adding a card , texting a note with wishes.

How do I contact you for any help or ask for informations?

WhatsApp: +39 3408357920
Email: patrykroszak89@gmail.com
Instagram or Facebook page: Woodzard

Are your products good for people that have wood allergies?
-Usually is the wood powder (depending what wood) to make have you an allergic, like red skin, eyes irritation or tearing or in worst cases difficulty to breathe. But if you know that you can not even touch some kind of wood, I can create something personalized using a different wood. About other allergies there are two cases, then just contact me:
-are you allergic to some specific material? I provide for a different material of the cord for the necklace, or the chain.
-are you allergic to some metals? I provide to make a hole to the pendant for the cord, instead of using a stainless steel eyepin that I use to connect them.

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