Unique Wooden Bowls and Accessories
If you love wood, elegant shapes, and precise craftsmanship, my unique wooden bowls and other wooden creations might appeal to you. I specialize in handcrafted wooden decorative items, particularly turned wooden bowls, as well as planters, vases, boxes, and other decorative objects.
For my creations, I primarily use locally sourced woods, such as ash, oak, walnut (English walnut), plum, cherry, birch, beech, or willow, favoring traditional materials with a minimal carbon footprint. Naturally, I also appreciate other native woods, such as acacia, cedar, cypress, juniper, elm, or ginkgo. Occasionally, I also work with exotic woods, such as saman, iroko, or pistachio.
WOOD PUNK – Traditional Craft with a Modern Approach
WOOD PUNK for me represents an approach rooted in traditional production methods and techniques, while also embracing the exploration of new or lesser-known and forgotten techniques, tools, and materials. In my work, I treat each piece of wood individually and with respect, so that it ultimately becomes something beautiful, functional, and unique. I seek shapes composed of visually pleasing curves that harmonize with the natural grain of the wood. Depending on the current aesthetic intention and functional needs, I further enhance the final form and grain with additional artistic elements using craft techniques, such as texturing, structuring, coloring with mineral pigments, ebonizing, charring, engraving, and more.
I always strive to achieve a perfectly smooth surface, free of visible tool marks or sanding traces. Creating a unique wooden piece requires impeccably sharp tools, mastered craftsmanship, perseverance, and above all, the ability to maintain absolute focus throughout the entire production process. For finishing my creations, I exclusively use my own blends of natural oils, waxes, resins, pigments, and natural abrasives, known under the brand Ludvie´s Oil.
My Journey
I do not see myself merely as a maker, but rather as a creator. My work often begins with an idea or a general vision of the shape and overall expression of the future piece. Then, I seek out the right piece of wood. Sometimes, however, it happens the other way around: when a beautiful piece of wood captures my attention, I see something within it, and I begin to reveal it. The final shape, wall thickness, surface finish, or other surface treatment techniques are often determined during the creative process. In doing so, I take into account any natural imperfections of the wood, its inherent color, the direction of the grain, and its moisture content.
One-of-a-Kind
Every wooden piece is unique, just like the wood it was made from, and the tree that provided it. I always strive to harmonize the shape and execution with the grain and other characteristics of the chosen piece of wood, such as its current moisture, the chemical composition of the species, and the ‘imperfections’ in its structure–often the very details that make my creations truly one-of-a-kind.
Craftsmanship
During the creation process, I pay close attention to properly preparing my tools to ensure the cleanest possible cuts. The surfaces of the pieces are always carefully sanded so that no visible tool or abrasive marks remain. For the pre-final surface treatment, I often use techniques such as ebonizing, pigmentation, texturing, or shou sugi ban.
Natural Finish
For the final surface treatment of my creations, I exclusively use my personally developed and tested 100% natural blends of oils, waxes, resins, pigments, and abrasives, marketed under the brand Ludvie´s Oil. These blends enhance the beauty of the wood grain while not forming a directly visible or tangible layer on the surface.