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Aventine Hill Designs

Hand-crafted heirlooms, made today.

Game boxes and cases milled from a single piece of solid hardwood — no joints, no seams — and hand-sanded until they feel like they grew this way.

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Milled from one solid piece

No joints, no screws, no hinges. Every box, tray, and rack starts as a single hardwood blank and is carved into its final form.

Glass-smooth by hand

Machines cut; hands finish. Every surface is sanded and polished until the grain feels like it was poured, not cut.

Friction-fit lids

Lids close with a soft, satisfying resistance — wood on wood. We let the wood speak for itself and add only what makes the piece more beautiful.

Bolivian rosewood bridge bidding boxes

Bridge bidding boxes

Our best seller, milled from a single block

Walnut or Bolivian rosewood, with friction-fit lids and a hand-polished finish. Sized for standard bidding cards, and sold as a set of four or one at a time. These are the boxes that proved people want heirloom game gear.

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Built for game night, the card table, and the kitchen

Table Games
Table Games
Card Storage
Card Storage
Kitchen
Kitchen
MAKE IT YOURS

See your engraving before we cut it

Type a name, a date, a dedication — and see it carved on the actual milled surface, at true scale, in your wood.

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Walnut single deck card box

The maker

Twelve years of service. A second act in sawdust.

After twelve years in the military and multiple combat tours, woodworking became the quiet work: one piece of wood, shaped slowly, finished honestly. The very first piece was a double-deck card box, built to swallow a full Uno deck — everything since carries the same one-piece rule. Veteran owned, built on our New Hampshire homestead a few steps from the pasture.

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