This shot glass is turned from Sweetgum—a native hardwood harvested in Illinois from a felled tree found close to home. The form is tall and slender, with a clean vertical grain that transitions from pale sapwood to warm golden heartwood.
This piece is a shop second, offered at a reduced price due to an off-center bore. While fully functional and sealed with polymerized walnut oil, beeswax, and carnauba wax, the bore sits slightly off-axis—a visual quirk that doesn’t affect usability but sets it apart from standard catalog entries.
Crafted with an angle grinder and other hand tools, this vessel reflects the raw, iterative nature of small-batch turning. It’s part of Gentry Crafted’s harvested collection—a growing archive of woods gathered from dead, dying, or already felled trees. Some were found close to home (like Redbud, White Mulberry, and this Sweetgum), others on the road (like Aspen and Plains Cottonwood), and still others through opportunistic finds (Sycamore, Walnut, and more). Each one carries a story of timing, respect, and the quiet art of noticing.
