Wooden Coffin Incense Burner - Buddha 12" - Brass Inlays & Storage Compartment

I have to admit I was expecting a really raw sloppy box for the cheap price but boy was I pleasantly surprised. My wood looks better than the picture. BTW I saw the identical box at my local smoke shop priced at $20.Wood is rock hard, beautifully grained and polished butter smooth.. on the outside where it counts. There are six brass Buddha's (3 on front and same on back)inset flush into the wood. No issues with the lid or hinges. Inside things are not sanded very smooth nor polished.. but, that's where the incense burns so who cares - if you choose to burn with the lid closed the inside will get black with soot and resin anyway. I chose to burn with the lid open, but would work perfectly with the lid closed, since there are a lot of decorative holes drilled in the lid for air exchange. There are stick incense holes drilled in opposite ends - offset - so you could burn two sticks at the same time one from each end. Interestingly the holes for the stick incense are drilled through the ends - the result allows you to burn a stick longer than the box by just pushing the stick further into the hole (poking outside). Additionally, there are two metal holders inside on the ash catch tray for cone incense.I have several of the canoe type incense burners that I don't use because ash goes everywhere - very messy. The difference with the coffin is the fact the incense lays more or less horizontal so the ash falls neatly into the box.. not onto your table.The box has storage for several sticks of incense in a "sorta" secret stash door the swings out on one end. Nice touch. If you enjoy incense this is the perfect solution.I burn several sticks a day between this box and a homemade wine bottle incense holder (holes drilled at the base of the bottle allows airflow and the stick is held upside down inside the neck with a paper clip.

Handcrafted in India. It is obvious that simple hand tools were used to make this item as every angle, joint and seem is crooked. The lid edges are crooked and do not match the crooked box seams. The lid edges are out of alignment with the box and the hinges are pushed into channels then tacked into place. The whole lid is wobbly. The lid doesn't match the box edges and there is as much as 2 mm (.08") difference between lid and box height..The buddha stickers are glued on. To call them inlay is not proper at all. The finish is very dark when compared to the actual base wood. It looks like a deep red finish/dye was used. The base wood is so corkscrewed that it flops from side to side when set down.As mentioned in a previous review, hope you have tools to fix all this.I am a maker of hand crafted exotic wood items, I have tools! I belt sanded it flat, ground off the uneven edges and matched the lid to the body. I straightened the seams, sanded the inside as well as the outside flat. I sanded the outside down to 220 grit. I glued all the joints again and glued the hinges in place.What isn't mentioned is that under all the finish and stain is gorgeous pieces of East Indian rosewood. I am going to finish it with a clear polyurethane as it is madness to cover it up with stain.For the price, call it a DIY kit and have fun with it. I am being generous with 3 stars and because of the rosewood.BE AWARE: Always use a dust mask when sanding, especially a rosewood, to avoid a adverse reaction to the dust.

It's okay. I decided to write a review today, which I rarely do on Amazon but I plan to do more often since I shop here at least a gazillion times per month. I burn daily and several times at that so my box blackened fast. I thought it would be a good idea to wash it out gently the other day and low and behold, the box simply fell apart like paper. Immediately the door broke into 2 pieces before I left the sink, and by the 3rd day when I picked it up the rest of the box came unhinged and fell apart in my hand. An hour later the sides simply came undone and now I'm left with only the base and one side panel to push an incense through to burn. I'm ordering another one of these for fear of ending up with something even worse. Advice? Yeah, don't wash it, actually, don't wet it at all. This is not real, solid wood, it's probably some cheap filler version but it does get the job done and looks quite nice as an incense coffin for $8.95. Maybe it has to be replaced ever so often. If I ever find a heavy duty, official one I'll let you guys know.

I haven't used the mat yet, but the thing I don't like about it is it's too small. In the picture, they cover the measurements by placing the box on top so that you can't see that the circles only go out to about 9 inches (maybe 10 inches), which is the right size if you make a pie crust in a small metal tin. That is too small for a pie crust in a normal size glass pie dish. So I don't really think that's too cool how they cover that up with the box. There was one silicone mat that I was looking at that is bigger, that some people complained is "too big", but I think that one would be more the right size if you want to make something bigger than small cookies. Hopefully the functionality will be better than the size. I'm sure when we make a pie crust on this mat, it will end up going over the side or at least getting real close to the edges with probably no room to spare. I'm no expert, but the mat should have been made to accommodate 12 inch pie crust, not tiny 10 inch crusts.

Overall a great little incense burner. The trap door thing is a nice feature, and the finish and accents look nice.The only problem I had was that the item arrived broken. The 3 sections of the swinging door on top had come apart. It looked like a mix of two factors: the packaging was not all that great for a relatively fragile item like this, and the glue on these joints did not appear that to be that well done. It was honestly not worth the effort to re-package and send back; I used some simple wood glue, taped it to hold it (which peeled the stain a bit, too bad), and it was good to go in an hour.I would recommend the item as it is a nice piece for a nice price, however, the seller should insure both better gluing and better packaging.