• Virtually all of the items I've made are fabricated from wood or wood products with plastic, metal, glass, and/or wax items attached or embedded.

• Many of the items shown here have a shellac, Tung oil, Walnut oil, or other oil applied to their surfaces before final finishing.

• Some items may be coated with spray lacquer or polyurethane materials

• Many pieces are polished using the Beale polishing system of Tripoli compound, White Diamond compound and Carnauba wax.

• Wood products and crafts may chip, split, break or catch fire if not handled safely and properly.

• Wood items may, if damaged and/or not properly handled, give you splinters (slivers) of wood under your skin. Such splinters can cause pain and possibly make infection possible under your skin.

• Wood items improperly handled may cause damage to you or nearby people or objects if they are dropped or throw, accidentally or on purpose.

• Wood objects, if chewed on by young humans or infants or pets with sharp teeth may create splinters (see above) risks or choking hazard.

• Some wood finishes, including oils, varnishes, shellacs and waxes may contain chemicals which have been found by states like California to be hazardous to your health. This goes to do not chew on or throw such objects. Especially in or near California.

• Throwing wood objects at glass windows or other fragile objects may cause them to break, creating sharp fragments which can also hurt you.

• The throwing of wood objects against other objects, whether fragile or not, may also cause loud noises which may be injurious to your health, hearing and/or annoy nearby people.

• And, of course, all the stuff that always refers to California specifications applies here, even if none of those chemicals listed even come close to my products... who knows? Maybe you'll dip them in something dangerous some day. Not my fault. Yay, California!

Proposition 65 Warning:

Proposition 65 is a California law that applies to any product(s) sold in California.

Some products sold on this website contain chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

A Proposition 65 warning means one of two things: (1) the business has evaluated the exposure and has concluded that it exceeds the "no significant risk level"; or (2) the business has chosen to provide a warning simply based on its knowledge about the presence of a listed chemical without attempting to evaluate the exposure.

I have chosen to copy and post the Rockler Woodworking and Hardware warning based on its knowledge about the presence of one or more listed chemicals without attempting to evaluate the level of exposure. With products on Rockler's website and mine, the exposure may be below the Proposition 65 level of concern, or could even be zero. However, out of an abundance of caution, I have elected to place the Proposition 65 warning notification on my site here, for all products.