Heartwood Notions
Square clapper pieced from walnut and maple triangles in a star quilt block, with a turned maple burl knob at the center

These photos are the actual piece — what you see is exactly what ships.

Clappers · One of one

Pieced Star — Walnut & Maple, Burl Handle

A full star block pieced in walnut and maple, with a turned maple burl knob at its center. The shop's signature, in the sold column.

Gone to a good home

This design has left the bench, but the shop still has the templates and the stock. Tell us you'd like one and we'll make another in the same spirit.

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Dimensions Hand-cut and hand-shaped — all measurements are approximate, and yours may vary a little.
8″ × 8″
Finish
Sole bare to take steam; top oiled & waxed (all-natural)
Ships
In 3–5 days, tracked, from our shop

Details

From the archive. This one’s gone to a new pressing table. A square clapper pieced like the quilt block it is: walnut and maple triangles meeting point-to-point in a full star, corners squared off in dark walnut, every seam a real glue line between real pieces of wood. At the center, a turned knob of maple burl — the handle — so you can set the block down square on an intersection and lift it away without sliding it across your fabric.

The square format is made for block work: where a long clapper walks a seam, this one parks on a pressed intersection or a stubborn bulk of seam allowances and holds it flat while it cools. Sanded to 320 grit, edges eased so they never mark fabric, sole left bare to drink the steam.

This exact star is sold, but the pieced star is the shop’s signature — use the request button and we’ll piece one for you in the woods you like.

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