A workshop, a lathe, and one pair of hands

We are a small workshop in the Niagara region of Canada, making solid hardwood gavels by hand. The same bench, the same Canadian red oak, white oak, black walnut, and maple, and the same hands behind The Art Cave's jewelry shape every gavel.

Hrant is a jeweler and woodworker who has spent years turning and finishing wood and setting fine detail by hand. What began as a sideline — a gavel for a friend's lodge installation — became its own small line when the orders kept coming. Every gavel still passes through one pair of hands, from rough blank to finished plaque.

We make gavels because a gavel marks something real — a year of service, a new appointment, a long career, a graduation. We believe it should be a real object: turned from solid wood, finished by hand, and made to be kept and handed on.

Everything we sell is made in Canada, by hand, in our own workshop. When you commission an engraved set, you are talking to the person who will make it; we confirm the wording and layout with you, then cut it by hand.