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Curtis' Handmade Dog Bottle Holder
Curtis' Handmade Dog Bottle Holder
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Curtis' Handmade Dog Bottle Holder
Made in One Room in Lewisburg, West Virginia
Curtis Hedrick, 71. His father Everett opened the shop a block off Washington Street in 1961 and painted Hedrick & Son across the window when Curtis was six. Curtis took it over in 1984 and has carved 11,482 dachshunds at the same bench in the forty-two years since. This is the final run. The building sold in March, the rent went from $600 to $1,800, and he hands the keys back on September 30th. There is no second workshop.
"A woman came in wanting a wedding present the autumn I took over in 1984, and couldn't settle on anything. While she was deciding she noticed the dog asleep under the bench. Chester lay under there every working day for thirteen years. She asked if I could make something that looked like him — it took me four tries and most of a week to get the head right, and I've been cutting that same shape ever since. He's been gone since 1997. There have been two dachshunds in here since and neither of them ever got carved. These are the last of them."
— Curtis Hedrick, Hedrick & Son · Lewisburg, West Virginia
What You Receive
Everything That Ships With Your Holder
Your Hand-Carved Dachshund
7.1″ × 5.5″ × 2.4″, holds a standard 750ml bottle. Carved from solid Appalachian basswood, sanded through three grades, hand-painted and sealed.
Six Colours Available
Slate Blue, Jet Black, Rose, Natural, Storm Grey and Plum. When a colour runs out on the shelf, it is gone.
A Note in the Parcel
Wrapped in plain paper with a short note written out by hand. No branded box, no tissue, no ribbon.
90-Day Returns
If it isn't right when it arrives, send it back within 90 days for a full refund.
Why This One
Six Things a Moulded One Cannot Do
Almost everything sold in this shape is poured into a mould. This one is cut out of a block with a knife, and every difference below follows from that single fact.
Solid Wood All the Way Through
Carved from one piece of Appalachian basswood — the wood American carvers have used for painted work for two hundred years. Not resin, not plywood, not MDF, not a veneer over something cheaper. What is under the paint is wood, right through to the middle.
No Mould, So No Seam
A cast piece always carries a fine raised line where the two halves of the mould met — look along the belly or down the spine of any listing photograph and you will find it. Paint softens that line but never hides it. There is no seam anywhere on this one, because there was never a mould for it to come out of.
A Knock Leaves a Dent, Not a Hole
Resin is brittle wherever it is thin, and in this shape the thinnest points are always the ear and the back legs. Wood gives where resin snaps. And if you do chip the colour, what shows through is basswood — which you can touch in with a dab of paint instead of throwing the thing away.
Painted by Hand, One at a Time
Curtis paints on Thursdays because Thursday is the day the shop is quiet, and he has done it on a Thursday since about 1990 for no reason he can give you. Every piece is brushed by hand and sealed. Under the colour you can still feel where the blade went.
Yours Will Not Match the Photograph
Cut by hand off the same shape, so the ear sits a little differently and the curve of the back lands slightly deeper on one than on another. People write to him about this more than anything else. It is not a fault. It is how you know somebody sat down and did it.
It Is Allowed to Get Older
Wood takes marks and keeps them — a knock against a tap, a ring from a wet bottle, forty years of being picked up and put down. It reads as age. A moulded piece has no way of getting older: the paint is either intact or it is chipped, and there is nothing in between. This one is meant to end up looking used.
◆ Craft Note
"You can tell carved from cast in about four seconds, and most people have never been told how. Run a thumb along the back. A moulded piece is uniformly smooth because the mould was smooth, and somewhere on it there is a seam. A carved piece is faceted — you feel small flats where the blade changed direction, and there is no seam anywhere because there was nothing to pull it out of. Basswood is the right choice for painted work too: close-grained enough to hold a crisp edge, soft enough to cut cleanly. A piece made this way doesn't fail on a schedule. It just collects marks."
Dale Pruitt — Woodcarver, 38 years · Blue Ridge, Virginia
Where It Goes
Made For These Corners of the House
Quality Promise
Five Things You Get With Every One
90-Day Money-Back Guarantee
If it isn't right when it arrives — the weight, the colour, the way the ear sits, anything at all — send it back within 90 days for a full refund. No questions, no forms. One email is enough. The deadline on the workshop does not change this.
◆ A Note From the Workshop
Curtis finishes every piece and looks it over before it ships. Small differences in the carving — an ear an eighth of an inch off where he meant it, a slightly deeper dip along the back, a brush mark you can find with a thumbnail — are a normal part of work done by hand with a blade. People sometimes apologise to him about it, which he finds funny. It is not a fault; it is the evidence. No two are identical, and that is the point. The count runs to 754, and then it stops.
The Details
Product Specifications
| Material | Solid Appalachian basswood, carved from one piece — no resin, plywood, MDF or veneer |
| Construction | Rough-cut, then shaped by hand with a knife and a gouge; sanded through three grades; hand-painted and sealed. No mould, therefore no seam. |
| Available Colours | Slate Blue · Jet Black · Rose · Natural · Storm Grey · Plum |
| Size | 7.1″ L × 5.5″ H × 2.4″ D (18 × 14 × 6 cm) |
| Fits | One standard 750ml wine bottle, lying flat in the cradle — red or white |
| Finish | Hand-brushed paint over bare wood, sealed. Chips expose basswood, not filler, and can be touched in. |
| Variation | Cut by hand off one shape — the ear and the line of the back land slightly differently on every piece. No two are identical. |
| Care | Wipe with a damp cloth and dry it off. Do not submerge, do not put it in the dishwasher, and keep it out of standing water. It is wood. |
| Use | Kitchen counter · Sideboard · Bar cart · Open shelving · Dinner table · Gifting |
| Maker | Curtis Hedrick — Hedrick & Son, Lewisburg, West Virginia. Shop opened by his father in 1961; Curtis carving this shape since 1984. |
| Made To Date | 11,482 pieces since 1984, all from the same bench |
| Final Run | 754 remaining — no reorders; the keys go back on September 30th |
| Sold By | Hedrick & Son — the only place these are sold |
| Guarantee | 90-day full refund, no questions asked |
The Final Sale
The Final Sale
Message from the Artist:
After years of making things by hand, our workshop is closing. These are the last pieces we'll ever ship. Every item on this page was made slowly, carefully, and with more love than any factory could replicate. Nothing rushed. Nothing outsourced. Just real craft from real hands.
We're proud of every single one. We hope they find good homes.
When they're gone, they're gone — and so are we.
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Freqquently Asked Questions
Got a question? Here's how to reach us.
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My wife and I personally respond to every single email — as fast as we possibly can. Whether you have a question about your order or just want to talk craft, we're here.
You can reach us:
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- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM (CT)
Email: info@craftfolk.com
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