Cotton-Headed Ninny-Muggins*

Posted on January 18, 2012 by littledove

“This place reminds me of Santa’s Workshop! Except it smells like mushrooms and everyone looks like they want to hurt me.”

-Will Farrel as Buddy the Elf, Elf (2003)*

This 2011 holiday season brought all of The Green Toolbelt’s employees together in our workshop sanding, sawing, oiling, cutting ribbon, stamping, brushing and shipping. Sounds like the North Pole to me…

Thanks for your support in making December 2011 the busiest month our wood ties have ever seen!

We were featured in the Lassen County Times holiday gift guide:

Participated in the 3rd Annual Beatnik Studios Handmade Christmas Fair:

And were highlighted on the Sacramento Bee’s, Deal Saver site:

“The Green Toolbelt provides Sustainable Earth First Products, packaged responsibly and easily composted or recycled. Their Wood Ties come in many mixed species of reclaimed or scrapped lumber and are a happy product sustainable by design. Ties have always been something that sparks a memory or a moment of joy for the people who wear them. Wood Bee Wood Ties give you that connection with their history. You may be wearing a piece of the old covered bridge, stick shift of a car, baseball bat, barn, or a building. Wood Bee Wood Ties are individual pieces of Nature’s Artwork and no two ties are alike. And because the people who make the wood ties, wear them too, their entire focus is on making excellent products. They figure, if they want to wear the very best, so do YOU!” Link to Full Article

The Brothers McCourt: Reclaimed Mantel

Posted on August 30, 2011 by littledove

“Make it look like Loomis.”

Broad criterion can be a petri dish for creative thought. Recently The Green Toolbelt was asked to design-build a mantel for a local residence. It was constructed in collaboration with the artist Kermit McCourt and utilized Doug Fir [age and origins unknown] that was milled over one hundred years ago!*

I can safely say, with marginal bias, that the finished product was breathtaking. A combination of planing, fine sanding and a linseed oil finish brought out bright rusts and glimmering grain in the 100+ year-old wood.