Hello and welcome to my website. I am a woodcarver who specializes in utensils, particularly cooking spoons of all sizes. I also carve the odd fancy bowl when I have the opportunity. I live with my wife, who is a poet, on a small farm in Bourbon County, Kentucky, with abundant woods and undergrowth and a healthy variety of wildlife.

In August 1980 an earthquake felled a black cherry tree on the farm. Rather than allow the neighbors to burn up some beautiful wood I decided to see if I could carve it into something interesting. The results were a series of bowls, which gained me membership in the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen the following year. I have been making treen ever since. I began selling it in 1982.

A customer asked me to make a tasting spoon in 1986 and I have concentrated on smaller carved utensils since then.

PHILOSOPHY

Although I most often carve black cherry, I also use pear, apple, crabapple, mulberry, and hard maples. I prefer to use wood that has been culled by nature because healthy trees have the vital chore of converting carbon dioxide into oxygen. Unfortunately, nature seriously damaged many of central Kentucky's trees in an ice storm in February 2003 so I now have almost more stock than I can use before it spoils.