Black Walnut Pedestal Salt Pig
Elevate your kitchen with an artisanal salt pig. Each of our charmingly unique salt pigs are handcrafted using high-quality, sustainable wood, ensuring it will last the test of time. Our salt pigs offer convenient, one-handed seasoning while adding a touch of natural beauty to your culinary space. A versatile and low-maintenance kitchen essential that's perfect for salt and more.
Beautifully chatoyant salt pig made from ebonized spalted black walnut.
3”h x 3 1/4”w
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In our shop, we use completely VOC-free oils or hard-wax hand-rubbed to finish our products. All of our finishes are safe for humans and the environment alike. The finishes we use are FDA compliant for food contact surfaces and include a mix of mineral oil, coconut oil, walnut oil, vitamin E, & waxes such as carnauba or beeswax.
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Walnuts are most often associated with intelligence, wisdom, and inspiration.
Greek mythology says that Prometheus, an immortal titan who rebelled against Zeus by stealing fire from Mount Olympus, gave a single walnut shell containing all the secrets of human future knowledge to his brother Epimetheus as he left him to create the human race.
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Spalting is any kind of wood coloration that is caused when fungi colonize the wood and extract nutrients from it, leaving behind dark dotted and lined patterns.
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Ebonizing wood is an old-world technique that was used to preserve the grain of the wood. The classic method to darken the wood is based on a chemical reaction between iron acetate and the natural wood tannins which produces a dark stain. A more modern technique to “ebonize” is to use India Ink to completely dye the grain a deep, rich black.
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The term derives from the French word “chatoyer”, which means “to iridesce, like a cat’s eye.” If you’ve ever seen the stone tiger’s eye, you get the idea. In woodworking, chatoyance is a similarly striking optical quality in which areas of light and dark grain seemingly shimmer or shift depending on the angle of view.