toCreate.net: Cliff Mire, his shop, and his work

More photos of Cliff, his work, and Jackie and Cliff's guest quarters

1. Image: Cliff Mire sawing on his band saw 2. Image: Cliff Mire in shop 3. Image: Hands of a wood artisan 4. Image: Works in progress 5. Image: Cliff and Jackie Mire's "guest quarters"

6. Image: Louisiana Craftsman with raw materials 7. Image: Handcrafted box with crosscut pattern 8. Image: Handcrafted nested box open showing multiple boxes 9. 10.

11. Image: Woodpile

1 & 2 Cliff Mire at bandsaw where he crafts his magnificent wood creations
3. Cliff's hand on one of his complex glued pieces that he uses as decorations on the tops of his native wood boxes with hidden compartments.
4. Works in progress. Notice the duck and see how one of the ducks comes out on the previous page
5. Outside view of the "Miresuite" guest quarters. to the right is Cliff's shop and to the far right you get a glympse of Cliff's garden (those are not weeds)
6. Cliff's shop seems to be a mess, but he says he knows exactly where everything is. Notice the pile of pieces of wood on the floor to his leff. Cliff uses native Louisiana wood: Pecan, Cypress, Magnolia, Hackberry, and Oak for his boxes and carved figurines
7. Handcrafted box with unique crosscut pattern created by gluing together pieces of different kinds of wood and using Cliff's unique techniques to create this beautiful pattern on the inlaid wood on the tops of the boxes.
8. Boxes with inlaid wood tops can open so you can see the six boxes/compartments. If you look closely in the upper right hand corner of the photo you can see the "key" I puloled out and left barely sticking in its grove at an angle. The key, when removed, allows you to get into the other boxes.
9. Box with spalted inlaid wood top
10. Closeup of spalted wood.
11. Piles of wood including driftwood that Cliff and his son have harvested from the Atchafalaya Basin and other places