Three luggage-tag studies for Clifton Tree Service
From the Practice Log – an ongoing series of stamping studies on real-world organizations.
An August study.
Tools and traces from careful tree work
Clifton Tree Service serves communities across Central Washington with pruning, removal, stump grinding, wildfire mitigation, emergency response, cleanup, hazard assessment, and arborist consulting. Its public presentation emphasizes safety, technical skill, respect for nature, and a smooth customer experience.
The current identity combines three unequal mountain peaks with a strong vertical tree or rope interruption, while the wider site uses forest green, warm gold, stacked blocks, and topographic contour fields. These independent studies do not reproduce the name, mountain-tree lockup, certifications, license details, or a generic company crest. They turn the construction into three things from the work itself: a three-tooth pruning saw, a wedge seated in a kerf, and the rings left visible in a stump.
As leather luggage tags, the concepts could be considered for approved arborist conferences, crew or leadership travel, certification and service milestones, vendor training, partner recognition, or a carefully selected longtime-client occasion. Any real use would remain subject to safety, employment, vendor, gift, certification, and trademark rules.
Leather and treatment
Deep forest green, warm natural tan, and charcoal leather bring the service landscape into a durable working palette. Blind impressions feel at home on gear; one restrained antique-brass edge on the dark tag recalls the site's warm gold bar without copying its logo.
The three concepts
1. The Three-Tooth Pruning Saw
A compact pruning saw carries exactly three broad working teeth and one oval handle opening. The unequal peaks become a real hand tool, immediate enough for a layperson and specific enough to respect the trade.
2. The Wedge in the Kerf
A single splitting wedge stands in the cut of a plain wood round. The tall interruption through a heavy horizontal form comes from the identity's construction, but the image reads first as controlled work at the point of action.
3. Stump Contours
Five irregular growth rings circle a small heartwood center, with one clean cut entering from the edge. The site's topographic pattern becomes the tree's own record: familiar, tactile, and tied directly to the landscape.
These are independent design studies for appropriate team, partner, collaborator, adviser, vendor, volunteer, or client occasions. No affiliation, approval, or endorsement is implied. Every image is a render used to test the object before cutting a physical die.
We made this out of love. Leatherius Woodman is on a mission to create and share artifacts of beauty, craft and love – this study is one of them, and we hope the feeling is mutual.
If you're Clifton Tree Service and you'd like these made real, or anything here changed – say hello through our contact page.