About

I’ve loved to make things for as long as I can remember, and I still feel the same sense of excitement and vitality when I’m carving as I did when I was a boy building with sticks or Legos. But now I get to swing an axe.

I live and create right in the same small town in western Pennsylvania where I was born. My father first taught me about tools and Drew Langsner, Roy Underhill, Jennie Alexander, Wille Sundqvist, Peter Follansbee, Jogge Sundqvist, Robin Wood, and Bengt Lidstrom, to name a few, opened my eyes to the world of working with green wood — logs and branches right from the tree.  

In addition to my carving, I do some writing and teaching.

Thanks to Jon Binzen for producing the video above. Check out the videos of many other craftsmen in Jon’s Masters of the Craft series on Youtube or at Fine Woodworking online.