Jeremy Burrill - Fiddlehead Casket Company
If there’s one thing I love, it’s working behind the scenes in someone’s shop and seeing how they build things. It’s probably one of my favourite things to shoot actually, and somehow I seem to do a ton of it. I always learn something on these shoots and there’s usually just so much gold to capture everywhere you look.
This time I got to visit Jeremy Burrill of Fiddlehead Casket Company, and his shop certainly did not disappoint. I will admit, I’ve never really spent much time thinking about how caskets are made, and I suppose maybe it’s not something most people think too much about. But after getting the full run down from Jeremy on his DIY kits, I can tell you for sure that I’ll be heading out in one of his pine boxes when the official time comes. Although hopefully that’s not any day soon, haha.
It was really cool working at the Fiddlehead shop for the day and seeing these things built from the ground up. Gorgeous craftsmanship and very clean design. I will say though, it was a very real feeling when we brought the final piece to the studio for some product shots and I watched him put in the last bunch of dowel pins. That was something else. I just remember looking down while he was closing it up and thinking holy shit, this is actually the “final nail in the coffin” right here. It was pretty wild. I thought for a very short minute that we should get a shot of me laying down in it before he closed it up, but I bailed out on the idea literally as soon as the words came out of my mouth! Too real, too real. Maybe let’s call it a day!
I’ll spare you the marketing material as I’m not the official spokesperson on these beauties, but check out the Fiddlehead website for the full run down when you get a chance. DIY casket kits, man. Think about it.
