Close-up detail of Tudor bed

Custom English Paneled Tudor Bed | Hand Carved Beds

This hand-turned piece — An extraordinary study in architectural woodwork, capturing the heavy structural grandeur of historic European manors. Intricate geometric panelled construction and robust, unyielding lines take the place of delicate turnings.

Specifications

  • Craftsmanship: Hand crafted — panelled construction (no carving)
  • Post Style: Heavy panelled Tudor posts
  • Wood: Spanish Cedar standard
  • Sizes: Queen, King
  • Also available: In genuine Honduran Mahogany

All listed prices reflect Spanish Cedar, include a custom scale drawing where applicable, and exclude shipping. For Honduran Mahogany, add 70%. Every piece is made to order — custom sizing available.

Item Size Price
Bed King $13,870
Bed Queen $12,880
Bed Double $12,380

Matching hand-carved nightstands available to perfectly complement this bed.

It can be made in any size. It is completely hand-carved.

Starting at $960

Our most intricate frame carving, priced per linear foot ($160/ft) by size and shape — a 16×20 starts around $960. Request a quote for your dimensions.

Listed price reflects Spanish Cedar; for Honduran Mahogany, add 70%. Excludes shipping.

Rectangular Trestle Table

Our classic rectangular trestle table — solid wood, turned legs, available in a range of sizes. Ideal as a dining table, kitchen table, or writing desk.

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

This  43 x 88 x 30″ high trestle table is patterned after an early American design. The top is quite heavy, made from three thick maple boards sawed out of one log. The table is constructed with dovetails holding the top onto the base, and includes no metal hardware of any kind. The top is hand-planed and is finished with multiple coats of polyurethane varnish. See the close-up photos of the grain in the table top. The table was completely hand made by Liberty Carvings owner William Smith in 2017.  It can be easily disassembled to 2-dimensional shapes for moving or storage. Crating and shipping quotes on request.


Item
Size
Price $USD
Maple Trestle Table 43 x 88 x 30″ $8000

Oval Trestle Table

The same solid-wood craftsmanship in an oval top — softer profile, seats the same number of people as the rectangular version at comparable dimensions.

Narrow Hallway Table

A narrow trestle table ideal for a hallway, entry, or sofa back — perfect for holding plants, books, or display objects. Made to order in any length and finish.

Starting at $4,240

Price adjusts with size, wood selection, and custom design. Request a quote for your specifications.

Listed price reflects Spanish Cedar; for Honduran Mahogany, add 70%. Excludes shipping.

All trestle tables are built to order. Request a quote with your preferred dimensions, wood, and finish.

See also: Kitchen Tables · Dragonfly Table · Queen Anne Table

Solid Mahogany Custom Made Bedroom set

Our most ambitious An ambitious complete bedroom set made on speculation. This set is in stock and ready to be shipped to a discerning customer with an amply-sized bedroom. The suite includes the four-poster bed, three matching dressers, and a hand-carved mirror, unified by flowing Rococo shell-and-scroll carving and worked to heirloom standard throughout.

This is a bedroom set with double-wide dresser, two smaller chests that can serve as nightstands, 16 x 20″ bevelled glass mirror in 4 1/2″ wide frame, and a King bed, all made in solid Honduran mahogany with a hand-rubbed shellac finish (modern polyurethane on the tops of the dressers).  The furniture is completely made by hand, and the ornamentation is hand-carved. The King bed has low footposts and a massive headboard. It will fit a standard King mattress or electric frame(s) (not included).  The customer can select knob-type drawer pulls of their choice. This furniture is in stock in Jamestown, RI (which means no 10 – 12 week wait as our normal production requires). We would prefer to sell the set as a whole, rather than break it up, since the carving on the dressers matches that on that bed. 

Specifications

  • Sizes: Pair of Twins, Double, Queen, King. Headends (headboard only) available for all beds.
  • Wood: Spanish Cedar standard. Also available in genuine Honduran Mahogany.

All listed prices reflect Spanish Cedar, include a custom scale drawing where applicable, and exclude shipping. For Honduran Mahogany, add 70%. Every piece is made to order — custom sizing available.

Item Price (USD)
Complete Bedroom Suite (bed, double-wide dresser, two chests/nightstands, mirror) $43,500

Before shipping from Jamestown, RI 02835

Pandemonium Frame Louvre Custom Made

In 2018 we were commissioned by a customer in Singapore to reproduce a famous frame which is in the collection of the Louvre museum in Paris (by John Martin, 1841). We carved this frame from photos of the original, in approximately half size. The frame has fantastic beasts carved in the corners and entwined snakes in the center top & bottom. The customer also had a reproduction made of the painting (not by us) — see the final product hanging in his home in Singapore. We think we did a pretty good reproduction of this famous frame.

Starting at $10,800

Price adjusts with size, wood selection, and custom design. Request a quote for your specifications.

Listed price reflects Spanish Cedar; for Honduran Mahogany, add 70%. Excludes shipping.

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

Close-up detail of tiger maple table

This  43 x 88 x 30″ high trestle table is patterned after an early American design. The top is quite heavy, made from three thick maple boards sawed out of one log. The table is constructed with dovetails holding the top onto the base, and includes no metal hardware of any kind. The top is hand-planed and is finished with multiple coats of polyurethane varnish. See the close-up photos of the grain in the table top. The table was completely hand made by Liberty Carvings owner William Smith in 2017.  It can be easily disassembled to 2-dimensional shapes for moving or storage. Crating and shipping quotes on request.


Item
Size
Price $USD
Maple Trestle Table 43 x 88 x 30″ $8000

Starting at $4,180

Price adjusts with size, wood selection, and custom design. Request a quote for your specifications.

Listed price reflects Spanish Cedar; for Honduran Mahogany, add 70%. Excludes shipping.

Close-up detail of Faux Bamboo custom furniture piece

Faux bamboo furniture was popular in the early 20th century, and the style was used in beds, chairs, tables, stands, mirrors and all manner of furniture and ornaments. We’ve adapted the faux bamboo bed to fit in modern standard sizes, with and without a platform to support the mattress. In the photos you can see the finely detailed turnings and hand-fitted ornamentation. There are hundreds of faux bamboo furniture styles and we can reproduce any of them from photos and dimensions, one of them being our more popular ‘New Orleans’ bed style. Please contact us for any modifications, custom finishes, different wood types or custom requests.

Specifications

  • Sizes: Pair of Twins, Double, Queen, King. Headends (headboard only) available for all beds.
  • Wood: Spanish Cedar standard. Also available in genuine Honduran Mahogany.

All listed prices reflect Spanish Cedar, include a custom scale drawing where applicable, and exclude shipping. For Honduran Mahogany, add 70%. Every piece is made to order — custom sizing available.

Item Size Price (USD)
Orleans Faux Bamboo Bed King $8460
Orleans Faux Bamboo Bed Queen $7796
Orleans Faux Bamboo Bed Double $7536
Orleans Faux Bamboo Bed Twin $7296

Recent Commissions

Oak Cherry Oval Filigree Frame

Oak & Cherry Oval Filigree Frame

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Our Oak & Cherry Oval Frame is a faithful reproduction of a century-old “Arts and Crafts” style frame. The intricate filigree leaf design is completely hand carved in spanish cedar or solid mahogany. The opening size is approx. 6″ x 8″, suitable for a portrait, mirror, or mini-landscape. The frame can be wall-hung, or made as a free-standing table or dresser-top display with a pencil-sized stick in frame’s back. This delicate frame will enrich any room’s decor.


Custom Carving

We will reproduce any open-source frame or carving style at your request. We can work from the original, from close-up photos, or from detailed drawings. We can also adjust any frame to fit your specific artwork, so that the corners match gracefully and the frame will keep its proportion and balance.

Materials & Construction

Our solid wood picture or mirror frames are hand-fabricated using kiln-dried Spanish Cedar or Honduran Mahogany. Their construction consists of full hidden tenons in the corners, with a full rabbeted back to receive the artwork. Smaller frames have a hand-planed removable back of 1/4″ thick solid wood, with beveled edges in the traditional style. We can also provide a beveled 16” x 20” glass mirror (oval or rectangular), turning the frame into a handsome antique reproduction mirror.

Finishing

We provide the following finishes on our frames:

  • Antique Hand-Rubbed Shellac
  • Distressed Faux Gold Leaf

If you wish to have your frame gilded with true gold leaf by a gilding shop, please let us know so we can supply the frame per the gilder’s preference.


Sizes and prices listed below are for reference only, as all our frames can be custom-made to fit your media. The prices below are examples of common-sized frames, manufactured in Spanish Cedar, excluding shipping costs. For products in Honduran Mahogany, add 50%.

Item
Size*
Price $USD
Oak & Cherry Oval Filigree Frame 6″ x 8″ $203

Frame sizes indicate the size of the rabbeted grooves on the back of the frame, which accepts the mirror and/or artwork.

Starting at $203

Oak & cherry oval filigree, 6×8 (one size only). Request a quote for your specifications.

Listed price reflects Spanish Cedar; for Honduran Mahogany, add 70%. Excludes shipping.

Custom Handmade Carved Bowl

Bowls

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Liberty Carvings has the capacity to lathe-turn wooden bowls up to 22″ in diameter, and can also make larger or specially-shaped bowls by hand. We offer a line of salad and fruit bowls in solid blocks of Nicaraguan ribboned hardwood or in glued-up kiln-dried Spanish Cedar. We usually finish our bowls with a varnish or oil finish to prevent the wood from splitting.

We provide the following finishes on our bowls:

  • Polyurethane Varnish – Food safe and high gloss
  • Pharmacy-grade Mineral Oil – Food safe and semi-gloss
  • Custom Finishes – contact us with your specifications

Custom Carving & Finishing

We can provide hand-carved bowls in rectangular or oval shapes, with attached handles, feet, and more to create your custom design. We can carve patterns on the outside or inside of a turned bowl, like a fully gouge-marked surface. We can also paint the bowls before varnishing, with fine vines, flowers, etc., per your request.


Item
Dimensions
Wood
Price $USD
Vine Pattern Bowl (Exterior Carving) 14-16″OD x 6-7″H Guanacaste $550
Vine Pattern Bowl (Lip Carving) 14″OD x 3.5″H Guanacaste $412
Vine Pattern Serving Platter (Lip Carving) 22″OD Guanacaste $440
Gouge Pattern Bowl (Oval) 22″L x 13.5″W Guanacaste $620
Gouge Pattern Bowl (Round) 22″OD x 8″H Guanacaste $550
Javelina Piglet Bowl 22″L x 12″W Guanacaste $895
Custom Sea Chest Naval Office Retirement Gift

Sea Chests

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If you were an able seaman 200 years ago shipping out on a whaling voyage from Nantucket, or even on a clipper journey around the Horn to California, you would have carried your worldly belongings aboard ship in a sea chest. If your ship were caught in the doldrums, the sails flapping loosely for days on end while the skipper waited for wind, you might have whiled away the hours by carving a design on the front of your chest.

We are pleased to offer genuine solid-wood, wide-board, dovetailed, hand-carved sea chests in Honduran Mahogany and Spanish Cedar. They come fully assembled with handmade steel hinges, and hand-knotted cotton twine beckets (handles). Our standard design depicts the famous clipper ship “Southern Cross” under full sail, and includes a personalized banner with your name, service dates, or other lettering. Inside the chest is a small compartment with sliding lid, modeled after an original antique chest.


Custom Carving & Personalization

Sea Chests are traditional retirement gifts for Navy officers, and to celebrate this tradition we offer custom chests for military retirees. A full-width interior tray (replacing the small interior compartment) can be made into a shadow-box (we do not supply the glazing or felt interior of the tray). We can also customize the front and/or top of the chests with a unique carving design such as depictions of ships, planes, service badges, or other scenes for a unique retirement gift. Please contact us with your specialized design so we may provide you with a quote.

These handsome chests also find many uses in the modern home. For a child’s toy box, we can add spring-loaded ‘lid closers’ so that small fingers don’t get pinched. If the aromatic cedar is left unfinished, they make an excellent blanket chest.


Specifications & Shipping

Our large sea chests are 42″L x 20″W x 19″H, and our small chests are 21″L x 14″W x 11-1/2″H. The chests are finished with hand-rubbed shellac, and an antiquing glaze which darkens the deeper carved areas.

These chests are crated for shipping by economical Fedex Ground Shipping. For a quote, please correspond with your delivery zip code.


Item
Dimensions
Wood
Features
Price $USD
Large Sea Chest 42″L x 20″W x 19″H Honduran MahoganySpanish Cedar Clipper Ship Design & Personalized Banner $1210
Large Sea Chest 42″L x 20″W x 19″H Honduran Mahogany Clipper Ship Design & Personalized Banner $2400
Miniature Sea Chest 21″L x 14″W x 11-1/2″H Spanish Cedar Clipper Ship Design & Personalized Banner $754
Miniature Sea Chest 21″L x 14″W x 11-1/2″H Honduran Mahogany Clipper Ship Design & Personalized Banner $1550
Interior Tray – Any Used for Shadow Box +$120
Custom 30″  Carving Front of Chest Any Ship or other design +$450 (subject to change)

Detailed Specifications

Specifications: Dovetailed construction, featuring a clipper ship carving on the front. Hand-tied beckets, forged hinges, and supplied fully finished.

A great cross-sell with our nautical and coastal bed styles.

Half Hull Model

Gloucester Fishing Schooner

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The Gloucester Fishing Schooners were perhaps the last working sailboats on the American East Coast to survive the advent of steam-powered engines. Superbly designed (even beyond the turn-of-the-century) they are known for their economy, speed, and seaworthiness. Crews would sail from the Massachusetts coast, spend several days dory-fishing for Cod and Halibut on the Grand Banks, then dash to the market with a load of fresh fish on ice.

The schooner rig allowed these boats to be sailed by a very small crew, and their ability to make port safely in the grip of a blistering Nor’easter winter storm is legendary.


This classical half-model of a Gloucester Fishing Schooner, is accurately scaled to the original design of this well-known ship. The solid-wood model (laminated with contrasting woods) has an overall length of 48″, and includes finely carved details. All our half-hull models are mounted on wide boards for wall display, and are normally supplied finished in part paint / part varnish, or can be customized per your specifications.


Item
Model Size
Frame Size
Price $USD
Gloucester Fishing Schooner Half-Hull 36″ Model Length 48″ Overall Length $1268
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Dragon Claw Table

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This intricately carved table showcases Asian-style dragon carvings on the front apron, with scaly ball-and-claw dragon-pattern feet. This table is shown without a top, as we can customize this design to fit any marble or glass top; however we can also provide a 1″ or 1-1/2″ thick solid-wood top, finished with polyurethane, upon request. To save on shipping costs, this table can also be made knocked-down, ready to assemble upon reaching its destination.

This table can also be made in different sizes, or with a rectangular top. Customization is up to you!


Whether your need is for a one-of-a kind reproduction of a specific antique, or a custom-sized furniture piece from our wide selection, we can provide you with quality furniture at very competitive prices.

All listed prices reflect Spanish Cedar material, include custom scale drawing (where applicable), and exclude shipping costs. For products in Honduran Mahogany, add 50%.


Item
Dimensions
Price $USD
Dragon Claw Table w/ Wooden Top 68″L x 42″W $5094

Starting at $8,980

Price adjusts with size, wood selection, and custom design. Request a quote for your specifications.

Listed price reflects Spanish Cedar; for Honduran Mahogany, add 70%. Excludes shipping.

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Shell Motif Corner Cupboard

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This cupboard carries a traditional 18th century shell carving pattern over its upper shelf; but has been adapted with glass-window doors, glazed with reproduction glass. The cupboard is of traditional all solid wood construction, with hand-carved moldings and turned rosettes and center finial. The top doors have brass pulls and modern magnetic fasteners, while the bottom doors have solid wood panels and traditional wood pulls with latches.

All listed prices reflect Spanish Cedar material, include custom scale drawing (where applicable), and exclude shipping costs. For products in Honduran Mahogany, add 50%.


Item
Dimensions
Price $USD
Shell Motif Corner Cupboard w/ Glass Doors Fits 32″ corner; 82.5″H or per your specifications $8150
Shell Motif Corner Cupboard w/ Open Top Fits 32″ corner; 82.5″H or per your specifications $7500
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Scallop Shell Ornament

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This scallop shell pattern can be carved in any size, starting at 3″ and upwards. This pattern is perfect for ornamental use on Newell posts, mantelpieces, wall hangers, and more.

A 12″ scallop shell is depicted here, and used as a pricing reference below.


Item
Dimensions
Price $USD
Scallop Shell Wall Hanger 12″L x 12″W $396

Detailed Specifications

Specifications: 18” size. Supplied unfinished.

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