Made for churches, and the houses beside them.

The Wedding Collection

• Engraved serving tray — A wedding tray, cut and engraved with the couple's names and the date.
• Ring tray — A turned teak tray for the rings, cut from one board and oiled.. Teak
• Groom's tray and hanger — The tray, the board and the hanger, all lettered with the same name.. Teak
• Guestbook board — A guestbook cut as a heart, with a wooden token for every guest to sign and drop in.. Teak
• Serving tray, brass inlaid — A brass medallion let flush into the front rail, and cast brass feet under the corners.. Rosewood
• Engraved serving board — A split monogram in flowers, cut and filled black on figured teak, with a juice groove run round the edge.. Teak
• Engraved serving board — Scrollwork above and below the names. Cut, filled, and left pale so the grain still carries.. Teak
• Wedding guest board — Guests sign a carved leaf and drop it behind the glass, and the leaves fill the tree over the course of the day.. Teak
• Wedding trays, carried — The cane-panelled tray and the live-edge cake board, on the morning they were carried up the aisle.

Stations of the Cross

• Jesus falls the first time — The first fall. Relief depth is cut deepest here so the figure reads from the pew.. Teak. Nalkodi Church
• Jesus meets his mother — The meeting on the road. Usually the panel a parish asks to see first.. Teak. Nalkodi Church
• Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus — The compelled helper. Two figures sharing one beam.. Teak. Nalkodi Church
• Veronica wipes the face of Jesus — The cloth and the imprinted face, carved as a separate shallow plane.. Teak. Nalkodi Church
• Jesus falls the second time — The second fall, cut lower in the frame than the first.. Teak. Nalkodi Church
• Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem — Weep not for me. A group panel, the hardest of the fourteen to compose.. Teak. Nalkodi Church
• Jesus falls the third time — The third fall, at the foot of the hill.. Teak. Nalkodi Church
• Jesus is stripped of his garments — Carved with restraint. Drapery does the work of the scene.. Teak. Nalkodi Church
• Jesus is nailed to the cross — The nailing. The panel most often placed where light falls hardest.. Teak. Nalkodi Church
• Jesus dies on the cross — The twelfth station. In most naves this is the panel opposite the pulpit.. Teak. Nalkodi Church
• Jesus is taken down from the cross — The Deposition. Ladders, the body lowered, the mourners below.. Teak. Nalkodi Church

The Life of Christ

• The Last Supper — The institution of the Eucharist. The standard subject above or behind an altar.. Teak
• The Descent from the Cross — Christ taken down, with the ladders still standing. Cut deep and finished dark.. Teak
• The Last Supper, in a house — The same panel run long along the wall of an old Kerala house, above the dining table.. Teak
• Christ, in a roundel — Cut deep enough that the face still holds its own shadow from the back of a nave. Photographed before the finish went on.. Teak
• Christ crowned with thorns — An oval relief, hands folded. The crown is undercut so the thorns throw a shadow of their own rather than being drawn on with a shadow line.. Teak

Marian Subjects

• The Immaculate Heart of Mary — A half-length panel, the heart held at the breast. Carved for a house as often as for a church.. Teak
• Immaculate Heart, house panel — A small arched panel for a house, cut from one board and finished by hand.. Teak

Doors, Screens and Ceilings

• Jaali screen — A pierced screen for light and air, cut to your own pattern.. Teak
• Sanctuary screen — The screen dividing the madbaha from the nave.. Teak
• Pierced ceiling screen — A ceiling panel cut right through and sprayed white. The pattern is drawn to the room it goes in.
• Jaali panels and gilded mouldings — Pierced panels stacked against the wall, and the gilded mouldings that run with them.
• Syriac beam over the madbaha — The lettered beam across the sanctuary arch, cut and gilded to the parish's own text.. Teak
• Offertory box — A caned box carried up at the offertory, made light enough to hold in two hands.
• A carved entrance door — Two leaves carved top to bottom, hung on a house. The centre stile, the beading and the panels are all cut on one setting, so the pattern runs through the join instead of stopping at it.. Teak
• Prayer-room doors — Bells pierced right through the panel, so the lamp inside reads on the landing when the doors are shut.. Teak
• A panelled wall — Grooved boarding run the length of a room, with a carved rail and turned brass rosettes breaking it at chair height.. Teak
• Star jaali panel — A repeating star lattice cut clean through, for a partition or a ventilator. The pattern is set out so no cut lands on a short grain.
• Gothic tracery screen — Rose-window tracery in two tiers, cut and then painted out, so what you read is the shadow rather than the timber.

Fittings, Furniture and Mouldings

• Pierced ornament panels — Two long panels cut right through, straight off the machine and before cleaning up.
• Carved brackets — Cut in batches to one drawing, so a whole run of them matches.
• Pierced corbels — A run of corbels stacked on the floor as they come off the bed.
• Carved cresting pieces — Small cresting pieces, cut many at a time and separated by hand.
• A batch of ornament — The same ornament repeated as many times as a job needs, all identical.
• Carved moulding lengths — Long carved lengths laid out to check the run before they go up.
• A brass-bound chest — The old Kerala chest, made new: hammered brass corners, straps and a shaped lock plate over a dark polished carcase.. Rosewood
• Burl ring — One burl slab cut to a ring and filled, for a table top. The figure is the whole point, so nothing is stained over it.

Engraved Gifts and Boards

• Engraved house board — A board for the wall of a house, lettered straight into the timber.
• Engraved serving board — A paddle board engraved with a family's own words.
• Standing plaque — A round plaque and its base, engraved with a poem written for the person it was given to.. Teak
• Scripture board — A live-edge board with the text and the hands cut in one pass and filled black.

In the Workshop

• The workshop floor — Our own machines, and a run of carved lengths waiting to go out.
• Cutting a panel — The router working through a panel on the bed.
• The router at work — Cutting slats, one pass at a time.
• Cutting a baluster — A turned profile cut in relief, straight from the drawing.

Nameboards and Signs

• House nameboard — The number and the name of the house, raised clear of the board and weather-finished.. Teak
• Family nameboard — A round board for the porch wall, the family's names raised and the leaves picked out.
• Resort signboard — Raised lettering and a cut logo on solid boards, sized to be read from a road rather than from a desk.. Teak. Maram Resort, Mamalakandam
• Live-edge nameplate — A cross-section slab kept exactly as it came off the log, with the lettering raised out of it.

The Christmas Collection

• Backlit tree lamp — A pine and a stag cut right through and lit from behind, standing on a live-edge base.
• Lanterns and candle stands — Slim frames in three heights, made as a set for a porch at Christmas.. Teak
• Christmas stars — Two of them: one built up from boards, one cut from a single piece with the nativity pierced through the middle.