Casket Furniture!

09/21/2026

Keep it square, keep it strong. 🪵

In this 15-second clip, I show you how to assemble the base components of our eco-friendly casket kit without breaking a thing. The secret is keeping everything square as you go. Get the base right and the rest of the build falls into place.

Watch the full 7-minute assembly video here: [LINK]

Building a casket yourself is a meaningful way to care for someone you love, and we're honored to be part of that.

– Mark, coffinbuilder

09/07/2026

There’s a moment in every build where two pieces of pine either come together clean, or they don’t. No in-between. No “close enough.”

This is that moment. Lid glue-up, corner alignment, the whole thing riding on whether I measured right three steps ago.

Twenty-nine years into this and it still gets my heart rate up a little. Darn thing never gets old.

This is what a Coffinbuilder plan actually walks you through — not just cut lists, but the moments where it matters most. Comment PLANS and I’ll send you the details.

📍 Kelowna, BC |

08/22/2026

08/22/2026

Meet “The Aphrodite” — hand-carved, one piece at a time.

08/18/2026

What a blast!

08/18/2026

I took this custom Coffin Pool Table to the Pl***oy Mansion.

We left the West Kootenays with the pool table riding in a cargo trailer behind my Durango — me, Pat, and my friend Katie. Three days to make it to the Pl***oy Mansion, tickets already booked, friends already flying in. Then the first border crossing turned us away — not a commercial entry point, and we had no paperwork for the table. No broker, no documentation, nothing.

I didn’t tell Pat and Katie how bad the odds were. I just turned the truck around and drove four hours out of our way to Osoyoos, a commercial crossing, still with nothing in hand to explain a casket-shaped pool table riding in a trailer. When we pulled up, the customs agents didn’t reach for a rejection stamp — they reached for their phones. They wanted photos of it. Somehow, by the grace of God, they waved us through.

Only once we were clear did I tell Pat and Katie how close we’d come to not making it at all. They were more relieved I hadn’t told them sooner.

***oyMansion

08/12/2026

Two Giovanni-style toe pincher coffins, ready now. Handbuilt, solid, and finished with the same care I’d want for my own family. Custom bedding available in your choice of fabric and color to make it truly yours.

$1,600 each, plus bedding and shipping (available throughout North America).

DM or click the link in bio to claim one — these don’t sit around long.

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08/01/2026

Woodworking gets you a lot of “wows.” Kitchens, decks, fences, handrails — people line up for that stuff. They want it in their homes, they show it off to their neighbors.

Coffin building doesn’t work that way. Nobody’s excited to buy one. Nobody’s showing it off. It’s still just as much craft, just as much heart in every joint and every corner — but the world doesn’t clap for it the same way.

That takes a different kind of person. Not a better woodworker, just a different one — somebody who can sit with the hard stuff and still show up and build something beautiful for a family on the worst day of their life.

And here’s the thing — every town needs one. Every city, every little village with a main street and a hardware store needs somebody willing to be that person. So if you’ve ever wondered whether you’ve got what it takes… you probably do. Most people just never ask themselves the question.