This handmade wooden robot is crafted from hand-harvested Old Growth Redwood Burl, stabilized and dyed black. The head and heart are made from figured Bolivian Purpleheart. The eyes are crafted from Australian Brown Mallee Burl, featuring Brazilian straw flowers with a blue chatoyant sky. The inlays are mother-of-pearl. This is my new favorite wooden robot—just don’t let the others know.
Meet Purple Rain III No. 50. It is crafted from stabilized and dyed purple Birdseye Red-Leaf Maple. The eyes are made from Teddy Bear Cholla Cactus set in front of Mother of Pearl, embedded in Entropy Bio Resin. Inside its abdomen lies a single Strawflower. The head accents are crafted from Gaboon Ebony from Africa, inlaid with Mother of Pearl and wrapped in brass. Have you ever submerged your body in the waters of Lake Minnetonka?
This handmade wooden robot is crafted from maple burl harvested on the beach, stabilized, and dyed black. The abdomen contains winged everlasting flowers, and the live edge of the burl is tinted with aqua-colored mica powder. Red jasper stone inlay dots add detail, while the head is made from Bolivian Purple Heart with straw flower eyes. I am very proud of this robot.
Meet wooden robot Brown Malle No52. This burl travelled all the way from Australia to land in my wood shop and be turned into a wooden robot. This is a minimalistic design. It has a live edge head and live edge arms and legs that give it the appearance of standing on point, like a dancer. I love this wooden robot as it is elegant. futuristic and it makes my imagination run a little wild.
Meet Sequoia Sempervirens No55. This wooden robot sculpture is crafted with hand harvested and stabilized redwood burl. Within its chest is one Knobcone pinecone cast within entropy bio resin. The head is made from Australian Gimlet Burl with pinecone eyes and abalone. This robot stands about 16 inches tall and comes with a beautiful Ironwood stand. This sculpture is meant for indoor display and is not a toy.
Meet Laurus Nobilis No48. This Hand crafted wooden robot started its journey as a Bay Laurel Tree aka Laurus Nobilis. I literally rolled this burl end over in in the sand for about a quarter mile, then over the sea wall at 1am. I was seriously in over my head as I could barely lift this beast. The eyes are actual honey comb cast within Entropy Bio Resin set in front of mother of pearl. Within its abdomen is one wind swept Shasta Daisy. I was only able to harvest one Shasta Daisy this year as the other didn't have the same levels of beauty. The inlays are mother of pearl wrapped in brass and the head piece has accents of Australian Jarrah Burl. Laurus Nobilis has live edge hands and lower legs that really show the long journey it took to become my favorite wooden robot... not including the dandelion bot (Taraxacum Officinale No46). This wooden robot is truly one of a kind.
This is a commissioned piece to match a ukulele I made a few years back. This wooden robot has a stabilized maple burl body with turquoise inlays, a Jarrah burl head with hand carved mountains for eyes with a sky of mother of pearl. The head and ear pieces are made from curly Claro Walnut. There is a Knob Cone Pinecone within its abdomen with black mica powder in epoxy. I love this wooden robot.
This handcrafted wooden robot is made from redwood burl from the Santa Cruz mountains. The wood is treated with cactus juice for added strength. Inside its chest is a Knob Cone pinecone with an abalone inlay wrapped in brass. Its eyes are made from real honeycomb and mother of pearl. The head is made of Arizona Desert Ironwood and the ears are Bolivian Purpleheart, also featuring abalone inlays wrapped in brass. The sculpture stands on a stable base made from a Desert Ironwood log. It is about 16 inches tall, with a base diameter of roughly 6 inches. This robot is not a toy and is intended for indoor display as art.
This wooden robot was made from hand harvested maple burl that I personally dyed and stabilized myself. The head is made from Australian York Gum Burl with pinecone eyes and redwood burl accents. The dot inlays are turquoise. The flowers within its abdomen are yellow Brazilian star daisies. This robot is fancy.
Sequoia Sempervirens No. 58
Hand-harvested from a fallen relic of old-growth redwood burl, this wooden automaton carries the deep breath of the forest in every curve of its grain. The redwood has been carefully stabilized to preserve its ancient figure—ripples of flame and curl that seem to hold centuries of fog, wind, and rain.
Its head, carved from desert ironwood, bears mountain eyes—tiny black-walnut burls set before a sky of mother-of-pearl. Each inlay glimmers with subtle light, the mother-of-pearl bordered in brass like a horizon at dawn.
In the center of its chest rests a single knobcone pinecone, sliced to reveal the sacred geometry normally hidden within—a spiral of seed and symmetry, both mathematical and mystical.
The automaton stands upon a fiddleback Bolivian purpleheart base, rich and resonant, measuring four inches square. From base to crown, Sequoia Sempervirens No. 58 rises 15.5 inches tall—a quiet monument to patience, craftsmanship, and reverence for living wood.
Every line, every reflection, feels alive.
I love this wooden robot.