Crucifix Materials
Crucifix Materials
Our Crucifix Materials include the Corpora (or Body of Christ) and the wood.
Crucifix Materials
Corpora
Jesus Corpora are usually either silver-plated or bronze-plated. They have good quality, thick plating.
Wood
We use locally-sourced wood. Our favourites are Walnut, Oak, and Maple. However, we sometimes have other types of wood available. These include Cherry, Manitoba Maple, Curly Maple, and a few rare genres.
We re-claim it when we can. For example, when someone gave us an oak stairway, we were able to turn it into Crucifixes.
What Makes Them Unique
Since wood has different grain patterns and shades, each piece is unique. As a result, two Crucifixes made from the same tree can look different from one another.
Natural Tones
We preserve the natural tones of the wood to let its uniqueness show through. Every board is unique in some way. Each type of wood ages differently. We listed typical traits of each type of wood to give you an idea of what it might look like.
Some Samples of Our Wood
Cherry
- reddish
- soft grain
Cypress
- light beige
- dark grain
Hardwood
- beige
- medium grain
Mahogany
- reddish
- short grains
Maple
- light to golden
- soft grain
Curly Maple
- beige
- wavy texture
Manitoba Maple
- beige
- red markings
Oak
- light beige
- dark grain
Walnut
- dark brown
- subtle grain
Purple Heart
- very rare, purple
- soft grain
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CREDITS
The LOGO image of Our Lady of Grace is original artwork by Martin Lariviere in 2009. We have the artist’s permission (my son). It is our exclusive trademark logo image.
A beautifully photographed sky by Donald Tong inspired the website’s colour scheme. Cropped portions of it are the background for the footer Bible verse. He shared it as a free download on pexels.com.
Raphael painted The Sistine Madonna circa (1513-1514). We made circular cut-outs from the original image.
Our information is from general knowledge, experience, and shared internet resources. We’d like you to use it as a starting point for your research so that you can verify facts and build a reference list.