What We Offer
Custom Pens
Our handcrafted pens are made from the finest wood, precisely turned and finished to perfection. Each pen offers a blend of beauty and functionality tailored for business executives and pen enthusiasts alike.
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Confetti Oil Lamps
Illuminate your space with our beautifully crafted confetti oil lamps. Made with the same precision and care, these pieces bring warmth and character to any decor, making them ideal for homes and businesses.
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Custom Bowls & Other Accessories
Our custom bowls showcase the natural beauty of wood through expert lathe turning. Each bowl is a functional piece of art, perfect for enhancing your dining or living space.
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Types of Wood Used
• Amboyna Burl is an exotic wood that is one of about 60 in the Pterocarpus genus, which is reported to consist of small to large trees distributed throughout the tropics. Reported to be indigenous to Malaysia, but is also found in the Philippines, Borneo, Burma, New Guinea, and the Malay Archipelago.
• Birdseye maple is a rare and mysterious characteristic found in hard maple. There have been theories as to how Birdseye maple forms, but no scientific evidence has been presented to verify the true roots of its existence.
• Black walnut wood is a hardwood that is known for its rich color, attractive grain, and durability. Dark brown color with a dark red heartwood and steamed dark sapwood.
• Bloodwood is an exotic wood that is sometimes referred to as cardinal wood, for its obvious beautiful deep rose color. With age its color does darken, but not significantly so it is a great wood to use in intarsia projects.
• Bocote is an exotic wood native to Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. It features a wide range of grain patterns from straight to wild, with curved lines and swirls. The color ranges from golden brown to tan to golden yellow. It is a hard, heavy, and dense wood, strong and stiff, with a medium texture.
• Brown Mallee Burls are harvested in dry regions of southeastern Australia from small to medium-sized trees that are sometimes considered shrubs. Lumber is generally not available from this species of Eucalyptus, but the burls are prized for their unique figure and color.
• Bubinga is an exotic wood from Central Africa. It is initially pinky-red, but darkens with age. It is popular for tool handles, decorative veneers, turnery, boatbuilding, knife handles, and can be used as an alternative to rosewood.
• Chakte Viga is a tropical hardwood from Mexico. The heartwood color varies slightly from pale to rich reddish orange. Sometimes referred to as Paela. The grain is typically straight, but can be interlocking. The wood can darken with exposure to light.
• Chechen is an exotic Mexican wood with a wide range of color variation from dark chocolate to light butterscotch colors. It is also hard and dense, which allows the wood to polish to a high sheen without effort. Chechen has an irregular grain pattern, and coupled with the color variety it makes fantastic finished pieces.
• East Indian Rosewood is an exotic wood native to the Southern India peninsula. The color varies from golden brown to dark purple brown, with a unique striped figure. It is hard and dense, with a coarse texture and good stability.
• Ebiara (also known as Red Zebrawood) is a species native to Africa. Just like Zebrawood, it has a light-colored sapwood in contrast with the dark colored grain.
• Goncalo Alves is native to South America and ranges in color from light to deep reddish-brown. It is very hard and naturally rot resistant.
• Grenadillo is an exotic wood that is bright red to reddish or purplish brown, with rather distinct stripes. The sapwood is clearly distinct from the heartwood, and is almost white in color.
• Ipe, from central and south America, is an extremely hard, dense, and heavy wood. It is very durable, which makes it popular for outdoor projects such as decking or outdoor furniture. Ipe is often referred to as Brazilian Walnut.
• Lignum Vitae (Argentine) is an exotic wood, yet is native to the West Indies and the tropical regions of the Americas. It is a very hard, dense, and heavy wood, with a fine texture. The heartwood color ranges from a dark greenish brown to black.
• Mel Walnut is reported to be 100+ year old Black walnut cut-offs from northern Indiana. Given to Bubbaduh Designs by the descendants of a gentleman named Mel. Used for the rich chocolate colors and changing grain patterns.
• Padauk is an exotic wood that is a bright orange or almost crimson wood when freshly cut, but oxidizes to a darker, rich purple-brown over time. It often grows in small groups and is reported to be common in dense equatorial rain forests.
• Red Mallee Burls are harvested in central and southern Australia. The burls grow on small to medium-sized trees. Lumber is generally not available from this species of Eucalyptus, but the burls are prized for their unique figure and color.
• Red Coolibah Burls are harvested throughout Australia, typically in floodplains or near bodies of water. Lumber is generally not available from this species of Eucalyptus, but the burls are prized for their unique figure and color.
• Snakewood is an exotic wood known technically as piratinera guianensis, snakewood comes from a small, relatively rare tree found in the forests of Central and South America. Initially deep red in color, snakewood changes its stripes (so to speak) upon being exposed to air, which makes the wood eventually turn reddish brown.
• Tulipwood is an exotic wood native to the tropical region of South America, mainly Brazil. The sapwood is a solid yellow color, while the heartwood color ranges from a pink to a darker red, with a straw-colored background.
• Thuya Burl is an exotic wood that the Greeks named thuya, meaning sacrifice, because they used an oil distilled from it as incense in their religious ceremonies. The burls are as beautiful as they are fragrant and the Greeks and Romans vied with each other over furniture made from them. Thuya burl is fairly firm and dense with a high oil content, but tends to be brittle. Its color varies from a rich, lustrous golden brown to nearly black.
• Wenge is an exotic wood with a natural growth range of the species is reported to be the open forests of Zaire, Cameroon, Gabon, the southern regions of Tanzania, and Mozambique. It is also found in the swampy forests of the Congo region.
• Zebrawood is an exotic wood native to the Western African countries of Cameroon and Gabon. The Zebra-like appearance is due to the light-colored sapwood in contrast with the dark colored grain.
** A burl is a growth on a tree that results in a deformed grain pattern. Burls are a tree's response to stress or injury, such as from disease, insect damage, or pruning cuts. They can appear as rounded outgrowths on the trunk or branches of a tree, and can also form underground as root burls. Burls are prized by woodworkers for their unique patterns and are used to make high-end furniture, decorative accessories, and musical instruments. Burl wood can be expensive because each burl is unique, and large burls can take decades to form. *