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231-584-2710

If you are interested in a custom fire pit design, the best way to start is to send me an email from the form on the contact page. The more you can share about your ideas, the better. With custom work, the focus is all about making sure you get exactly what you’re looking for.

It’s important to spend time developing the design together, because once the steel is cut it can not be uncut! We’ll discuss the idea over the phone, collaborate on image research for the subject matter and I may ask you to try drawing your idea or sending photos that describe it.

Exclusive Originals— One of a kind Sculptural Fire Features

Exclusive Originals are available only at the studio, or you

Custom Easter Brazier for St James and St Leo

Joseph Michniewicz commissioned a custom brazier for Easter Vigil at

A Fire Sculptural Fire Pit Torch to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Newport Winter Carnival

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Newport Winter Carnival, Christopher Marcotte commissioned a Great Bowl O’ Fire 30 inch Sculptural Firebowl™ to be installed in the town’s Little Common on a tall torch base.

The Compass Rose Sculptural Fire Pit

The Compass Rose features four layers of relief sculpture— The bowl itself, two layers of cut steel star designs, and hand made “clavos” (decorative bolts). The compass letters are cut out of the bowl so ire can show through them and so they will also project onto the ground.

Customizing a Waves Sculptural Fire Pit to add two Phoenix

This commission came through Edgewood Orchard Galleries in Fish Creek, WI. They had a customer who loved the Waves O’ Fire Sculptural Firebowl, but also really loved the phoenix on the Great Bowl O’ Fire.

Custom Torches Adorn a Stone Moon Gate in Maryland

Patrick and Ann in Maryland own one of my very

Custom Sculptural Fire Pit celebrates generations through a family portrait

When Kevin called from Long Beach , CA he already knew that my firebowls will last generations. Thinking about how the firebowl would be passed down through his family, he wanted to commission a custom piece that would tell a story about his present family to the generations to come.

The Compass Sculptural Fire Pit Designed for Base Camp X

The Compass Sculptural Firebowl™ is the third custom design I’ve made for Graeme Cameron of Base Camp X. The idea appealed to me strongly because you can orient the bowl to the cardinal points and it will always tell you which way you’re facing.

Custom Double Caldera “Floating Flame” Sculptural Fire Pit

The goal of this project was to create a firebowl nested within an outer ring so that it appears to float in air. I am super happy with the way this one turned out! I’m also really impressed with the landscaping around the firebowl— it’s a great space!

Olympic Style Torches for the World Domination Summit

Last year, Chris Guillebeau asked me to make an Olympic

A Custom Phoenix + Flames Sculptural Fire Pit in Phoenixville, PA

Every now and then, I get a request for

A custom Fire Feature for a memorial garden

Alex Townsend was a passionate artist and musician studying graphic design at the Savannah College of Art and Design when he tragically passed away at the age of 21. As a remembrance, the family commissioned me to create a firebowl incorporating Alex’s signature tag.

The Vulcan— A Custom Fire Pit Design for Base Camp X

I had already done a custom firebowl for Graeme Cameron when he was part of Best Made Co., so when he left to form his own venture, Base Camp X, he asked me to do a new design featuring the BCX logo. We called it the Vulcan and you can order it exclusively from Base Camp X. As he writes on their site:

Custom Fire Feature for Best Made Co.

When I first heard about the beautiful designer axes made by the guys at Best Made Co., it seemed like such a natural overlap with my firebowls that I promptly gave them a call. I had a great talk with Graeme Cameron and we were quickly on the path to being fast friends. Not long after, he approached me about doing a custom design firebowl for his place.

Custom Phoenix + Flames Sculptural Fire Pit with inset flames

With free reign to do whatever I wanted around a fire theme, I decided to try an idea that I had been toying with in the back of my mind for quite some time… Cutting outlines of flame shapes withing the flame designs of the Great Bowl O’ Fire. The idea being that the fire would show through these cutouts and achieve an effect of depth that might more closely mimic a real fire.

Fiery Fleur-de-lis Sculptural Fire Pits on Lake Okanagan near Kelowna, BC

These twin Fiery Fleur-de-Lis 37 inch Sculptural Fire pits flanking

The Fire Sine, a Customized King Isosceles Sculptural Fire Pit

Mark in Watsonville, CA wanted a modified King Isosceles Sculptural Firebowl with a smooth undulating edge and reached out about ordering a custom 41 inch diameter firebowl.

Custom Fire Pit wins Award

Mary Abe at Garden Gate Landscaping has won an award for her project “A Frame for Lush Scenery” which features a custom firebowl I collaborated on and built.

Dancing Devils Fire Pit Casts Lively Dancing Shadows

These dancing devils were adapted from a series of medieval block prints… although they also remind me of Indonesian shadow puppets. Especially because of the way that they cast lively dancing shadows when you build a fire in the firepit. As the flames leap, so do the shadows! How cool is that?

Fire Pit Story: Raven gives the gift of fire to mankind

People love to tell stories around a fire… so it made sense to me to create some narrative fire pits that tell stories themselves. And what better story to begin with than the story of how mankind was given fire?

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Need inspiration for your project? Check out photos from around the world to see how people have incorporated Hudson Valley Sculptural Fire Pits into yards, gardens, decks, pools, patios and fountains.

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More than 60 restaurants, hotels, churches and public spaces have installed Hudson Valley Fire Pits as dramatic decor and outdoor gathering spaces. Hudson Valley Fire Pits clients include Google, Calvin Klein, Telfar, Sandals Ochi, Rum Fire at the Sheraton Waikiki, 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, and the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago.

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Custom Fire Pit designs are all about making sure you get exactly what you’re looking for. Lead times for custom work are typically much longer, involving concept discussions, collaboration on image research, and drawings. I am not able to do custom sizes.

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