Quality Shaker Cremation Boxes

What do you need? - A difficult subject when a person is alive, the subject of cremation is more difficult at the time of death.   Often no provision are made in advance on how the crematory ashes are to be stored.   If you are browsing the internet seaching for a suitable cremation box or urn for yourself or loved one, you can quickly become over whelmed.   So here is a little informaton to help you.   Each pound of body weight will reduce to approximately 1 cubic inch of volume; so look for urns or boxes that provide you a volume capacity.   Without providing a box to the crematory or purchasing one from the crematory, the deceased ashes will be placed in a plastic bag or box.   If you provide a box or urn to the funeral home or crematory they will pack the deceased ashes in the box for you.   If the cremains box or urn is undersized, they will pack the maximum amount of ashes and properly dispose of the remainder.   If this is a problem then ask for the rest of the ashes to be placed in a plastic bag or box; or purchase a larger sized urn or box.   Often couples who have lived long lives together die close in time to each other.   In this case you may desire to store the ashes separately but next to each other in a "companion box".

Tradition - The graceful swallowtail fingers point to the right as a reminder of a righteous life.   It is this attention to detail that is the hallmark of our Shaker inspired cremain boxes.   We utilize copper tacks to hold the beautiful swallowtail fingers in place and the compression fitted tops and bottoms are anchored with copper shoe pegs, no glue is necessary.   These classic Shaker oval designs feautes date to the mid 1700's and the construction methods provide a great strength that belie its delicate beauty.

Adaptation - Shaker cremain boxes have adapted Shaker design principles and put them to a new purpose; something for which the Shakers were known to excel.   We have increased the depths of our standard #4 and #5 boxes to volumes of 209 and 224 cubic inches respectively.   Our #8 Shaker Companion Box is divided along the minor oval axis to form to two separate compartments of roughly 300 cubic inches each.   While we offer standard finger height designs; our most popular style has a redesigned swallowtail finger height of 1 and 1/2 inches.   The increased lid depth keeps the cremain box top tightly in place without the use of fasteners.   Our customers find that our cremain box adaptations enchance the beauty of the Shaker design.

Beauty - People purchase natural wood creamation boxes for the beauty of the wood.   Our Shaker Cremain Boxes are no exception and our box sides can be created from cherry, walnut, oak, or birds eye maple woods. The box top is usually created from the same or color contrasting wood.   For box lids we offer cherry walnut, birds eye maple, Carpathian elm burl, flame maple, quilted maple, and upon occasion other magnificiently figured woods.   Six to ten coats of highly durable gloss lacquer increases the depth of the finish.

Availability - We try to keep our most popular boxes in stock and ready to deliver to you within a short period.   However our cremain boxes are created one at a time and are generally considered to be works of art.   Therefore our standard lead time is eight weeks and larger orders require long lead times.

Shipping & Handling - Our shipping and handling charges are included in the purchase price. We ship by UPS.

Payment Terms - Our payment terms are net 30 days from date of shipment.   We use PayPal as our secure online checkout.   Payment may also be made by cash, check, money order, Visa, MC, and Discover.