Hand cut lettering | Picture gallery | Mike Forbes Wood Carving

All lettering is hand carved using chisel and mallet. There is the option to guild the letters with 24ct gold leaf ,to paint or to stain the letters, depending on how bold you want them to be.

Wood carved lettering gilded in gold guilding

Gold guilding using 24 ct gold leaf

Wood carving childrens education board made from chestnut

A whimsical text for a child's learning board. Carved into Chestnut and painted.

Wood carving candle holders and desk plate made from oak

Oak stained with a mahogany brown.

Wood carved lettering into the back of a child's chair

Lettering carved into the convex back of a child's chair, left without stain or paint.

Wood carved lettering onto the back of a wedding bench

Lettering inscribed onto a wedding gift bench, left without stain or paint.

Lettering inscribed onto an Oak table and stained.

This heavy external hardwood gate was carved and painted in situ. This provides an elegant means of displaying your house name or number.

Wood carved letters onto a bench and painted

Lettering inscribed onto a large outdoor bench and painted.

Lettering inscribed onto a memorial bench and painted.

Wood carved letters onto a memorial and burnt

When paint is not an option because of circumstances such as woodland burial, I can offer a burning of the letters once carved for a natural blackening.