About Us

All the bowls and other wood pieces shown are made by my wife and I at our home here in northern Vermont. We live in the farmhouse I was born in up here in the" North East Kingdom" of Vermont. I have lived here all my life, so far anyway, as we say up here.

My family has lived in this town in Vermont since 1800. For seven generations we have all been farmers, loggers and tradesmen. My wife and I have owned a small sawmill here since 1984 doing retail work and custom sawing. We bought a new bandmill in 1996 and started to concentrate more on custom sawing. We have always enjoyed working with wood but never really had the time to explore the finishing part of woodworking. Sawing the wide variety of wood that some of the local furniture makers and woodworkers bring here has been interesting in that it showed us what character and beauty was in some of the older or lower quality trees that would ordinarily be thrown into the woodpile or left in the woods.

A few years ago we started with a small wood lathe that we picked up at a yard sale. It has been an interesting experience. We are completely self taught. We have improved our equipment and are learning more about turning and woodworking as we go along. We take some of the wood that would be discarded or sawed into firewood and turn it into some pretty nice pieces. Some we sell to local woodworkers, carvers, carpenters and furniture makers. Some we finish into bowls, lamps or other items. Some we just keep and move around from place to place until someone either buys it or we get the idea to do something with it. Sometimes we just get tired of handling it or moving it around and toss it in the wood stove. That is usually right before someone shows up looking for just the sort of piece of wood we just got rid of. That's one of the things that make the wood business so interesting.

It is interesting to take a burl or other piece of wood and start to work it. When we start with a top quality log, we can usually make what ever we choose. When we start sawing or turning a piece of wood from an old rough looking tree that has stood on a fence line for over a hundred years that is when it gets interesting. The wood starts to take shape and shows us what it would like to become. We only use wood that is native to our area. Each bowl we make is one of a kind, hand turned from a single chunk of wood. Each bowl is air dried for several months to allow the bowl to move naturally as it dries. After the bowl has dried we turn it to it's final shape and finish it. We sign and date all our bowls. We figure that this wood has already lived one lifetime in the tree. If we make a good bowl from that tree it should stick around for quite a while longer. It is nice to think that our bowls will be passed down from one generation to another. Years from now some one can look at the bottom of one of our bowls and know that it came from Vermont, who made it, when it was made and the kind of wood it was made from.