SQUEAKY BINDERS
WOODPILE
marks, barks and logs - plus other stuff
6 Designs
Sessile Oak, Eucalyptus, Sycamore, Scots Pine, Beech, Pedunculate Oak.
Available as
Illustrated Notebook
A handy sized wire bound notebook containing 6 ‘Wood Pile’ illustrations with interesting text, with blank, line and squared pages for all your notes - makes a great gift too.
Perfect gift for all wood workers.
This really handy little wire bound notebook is ideal for writing down ideas and sketching projects. It contains a really useful mix of blank and squared pages as well as six atmospheric photographs with accompanying interesting tree facts.
“It was the chainsaw marks and the play of light and shadow on the end grain of the logs in a friends barn that caught my attention and inspired Wood Pile.” Graham.
Width - 140mm (including binding) Height - 130mm Depth - 13mm
82 Pages (164 sides) - 52 blank, 53 lined, 46 squared, 6 illustrations with tree facts and front page.
Printed locally in Cornwall on sustainably sourced paper.
Squeaky’s Special Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our Special Edition handmade Notebook has a truly distinctive hard case cover containing all the illustrations and pages inside ready to be filled with all your lovely words and logs!
Featuring six unique images from the series ‘Wood Pile’ by photographer and woodworker Graham Barrett ARPS along with interesting notes about the six woods featured. Learn more…
This appealing little ‘Wood Pile’ handmade Special Edition notebook is very special. Our unique cover design has a square window containing one of the six designs protected by an acrylic cover which is held in place with solid copper or brass rivets. The whole case is covered with a striking saffron yellow bookcloth.
Inside, we use complementary eye-catching printed marbled design endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 54 blank, 74 lined and 26 squared pages with all of the ‘Wood Pile’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout.
We also add a multi-coloured, hand dyed page marker ribbon so you’ll never lose your place and smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
Such a lovely gift for woodworkers as well as creative writers who appreciate the beauty of wood and who doesn’t?
Also available is our luxurious ‘Woodpile’ Clamshell Case Set which makes a truly fabulous gift for anybody.
Postcards
‘Wood Pile’ designs available as a set of 6 Postcards
Six unique images from the series ‘Wood Pile’ by contemporary Cornish photographer and artist Graham Barrett ARPS. Learn more…
A lovely set of 6 Postcards - one of each design - presented in an attractive drawstring organza bag.
Our 150mm x 150mm Postcards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper in an organza bag - 195mm x 295mm in size.
Squeaky Binders ‘Woodpile’ range Inspired by the light falling on the saw marks of a pile of logs ready for winter in a friend’s barn these cards are a delight to send and receive.
Art Cards Wallet Gift Set
Complete set of 6 Art Cards presented in an attractive folding wallet to keep them safe and for display
Six unique images from the series ‘Wood Pile’ by contemporary Cornish photographer and artist Graham Barrett ARPS. Learn more…
This special Gift Set offers you all six individual Art Cards presented in our beautiful folding wallet to keep them safe and to display proudly on any writing desk.
Our 150mm x 150mm Art Cards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper, blank inside and supplied with 155mm x 155mm brown Kraft envelope, wrapped in a clear sleeve.
Squeaky Binders ‘Woodpile’ range inspired by the light falling on the saw marks on a pile of logs ready for winter in a friend’s barn these cards are a delight to send and receive.
Squeaky’s First Choice Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our First Choice Edition handmade notebook contains all the ‘Wood Pile’ illustrations with plenty of room inside for all your creative writings - makes a great gift too.
Featuring six unique images from the series ‘Wood Pile’ by contemporary Cornish photographer and artist Graham Barrett ARPS. Learn more…
This appealing little ‘Wood Pile’ handmade First Choice Edition notebook is covered with a striking saffron yellow bookcloth and wrapped in its own distinctive dust jacket.
Inside, we use our won in-house designed ‘Squeaky Binders’ endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 54 blank, 74 lined and 26 squared pages with all of the ‘Wood Pile’ illustrations and notes spaced at intervals throughout while smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
A fabulous gift for creative writers and log keepers who appreciate the beauty of wood - and who wood knot?
Mini Journal, Art Card and Pencil Set
‘Wood Pile’ Special Edition Illustrated Notebook and Clamshell Case Set
Our ‘Woodpile’ Special Edition illustrated notebook includes six unique images from the series ‘Wood Pile’ by photographer and woodworker Graham Barrett ARPS along with interesting and informative notes about the six woods featured.
This delightful little notebook contains 168 pages in total consisting of 54 blank, 74 lined and 26 squared pages plus the ‘Wood Pile’ illustrations together with their notes each spaced at intervals throughout.
Co-ordinating printed marbled endpapers produced by Jemma Lewis, a multi-coloured, hand dyed page marker ribbon (so you’ll never lose your place!) and smart headbands complete this beautifully handmade book. A real treasure.
The wonderfully vibrant saffron yellow cover of our ‘Woodpile’ notebook demanded an equally eye catching clamshell case to hold it. The beautiful Japanese Chiyogami paper called ‘Leaves’ was the perfect choice for the cover and the two tray linings inside the case. It’s quality and design enhances the book, its contents and the craftsmanship in making the whole set.
A really fabulous gift.
The ‘Wood Pile’ Range
Wood in all its beauty
Inspiration and technique
I would like to say that I don’t make a habit of it but the truth is that I do and I can’t help it - rooting around in woodpiles that is!
My old mum used to say that I was born with a hammer in my hand and while I can’t vouch for that, some of my earliest memories are of making things from apple boxes and orange crates.
I’ve moved on a bit from those days but basically it’s who I am - it’s what I do - I’m a maker of things.
My first working set of bevel chisels re-fitted with London pattern handles which I turned more years ago than I care to remember from reclaimed ‘Woodpile’ timbers.
And while I have become familiar with many other materials since those childhood days it is still wood in all its wonderful variety that retains a very special place in my affections. Especially those bits that have already had a hard life, have defects or have been put out for burning. This was the only sort of timber I could get hold of when I started woodturning in my early teens by - yes you’ve guessed it - rooting around in woodpiles!
I saw marks and ‘E saw shadows
Yeh, I agree, very sad - blame my old mum, I got it from her. She would come out with funny little asides from time to time such as “I saw Esau sitting on a see-saw” - we never knew what it meant but out of curiosity I recently googled the phase and discovered the song was a big hit for the Ames Brothers in 1956. Seriously!!
Squeaky thinks it’s hilarious and provides all the lyrics in his blog if you really want to complete your education!
On a more mundane note it really was the chainsaw marks and the play of light and shadow on the end grain of the logs in Mike’s barn that caught my attention. I was finishing off my ‘Atlantic’ series of images exploring tool marks at the time so I guess this series is a natural follow on from that earlier work.
No log, tree stump or scrap of timber has been safe since and I am particularly indebted to Rosanna for the boot full of prize specimens that she kindly donated to this worthy cause.
“Logs, Marks and Barks - we do them all!”
— Squeaky B