The maker

Meet Brittney

Pyrographer, designer, and the hands behind every burned piece in the shop.

How it started.

I burned my first piece on a whim. A small doodle on a scrap of plywood while I waited for paint to dry. It came out wrong, which is to say it came out interesting. So I burned another one. Then another. Some nights I lost three hours and couldn't tell you where they went.

The wood doesn't forgive. That's exactly what I love about it.

Pyrography is patient work. You can't undo a line. You can't rush a curve. Every piece carries the small imperfections of being made by a person, not a machine. That's the point. I hope you can feel that when you hold one.

I work out of a small studio in southern Illinois, mostly at night, when the house is quiet and the wood smells warm. I design every piece in the shop myself, whether it ends up burned into birch or printed onto a tee.

From sketch to shipped

How a piece comes to life.

Step 01
Sketch
Every piece starts in pencil. Lines that propose something, before anything's permanent. If I'm working from your photo, this is the step where we go back and forth until it's right.
Step 02
Burn
A wood-burn pen heated past 700°F. Slow, focused work. The smell of warm birch. Sometimes hours per square inch. This is where the piece stops being an idea.
Step 03
Finish
Sanded smooth, oiled, sealed. The grain comes alive under finish, and the burn deepens. The wood looks different than it did an hour ago.
Step 04
Ship
Wrapped carefully, signed, and sent. From a small studio in southern Illinois, to wherever you call home.
Step into the work

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