About two years ago I started selling some of my creations on Etsy.com.   If you are not familiar with Etsy , it is a website that offer...

I visited the C. F. Martin & Co . guitar manufacturing plant in Nazareth, PA and took the factory tour . I was very impressed and al...

  I love fly fishing.   I enjoy standing in the stream and feeling nature surround me.   I enjoy the challenge of trying to make a perfe...

  My son-in-law Rick brought me a beautiful steel knife blade with tang, and a piece of buckeye burl wood, and he asked me if I would ma...

In my search for interesting symbols to carve on recycled wooden cigar boxes, I discovered Japanese crests. These crests, also called mon ...

I have not posted on this blog for quite some time now. There are a number of reasons for this, one of which is spring. Spring always br...

http://www.ghana-net.com/fantasy-coffins-of-ghana---fantasie-saerge-in-ghana  In one of my previous posts, I talked about wood carvi...

Alpha Box cherry, redwood lace burl, and mahogany trim If you have been reading my blog, you must realize that most of the wood I use in...

I’ve been selective is scavenging empty wooden cigar boxes at my local cigar emporium. One particular brand of cigars comes in boxes that a...

You know I like clever things made out of wood. You know I like forests. You know I like music.  Well, this video obviously rates very high ...

“…The tree, which is used for the body of the drum, contains a living spirit. Great care is taken to make sure that the wood of the drum is...

I remember visiting Duckloe Furniture in Portland, PA several months ago. They have exquisite examples of American hand-crafted furniture. ...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been experimenting with creating things out of old cigar boxes. I’ve been using carving, pyrogra...

I’ve always been fascinated by trees with names, but we’ll talk more about that some other time. Right now I want to focus on one specific t...

I picture one of my early ancestors, thousands of years ago, forging a metal spear point out of bronze and laying the hot metal object down ...

Spring is here so I built a few birdhouses. Actually I built one new one and refurbished two others, all with scrap wood. Admittedly, the...

What books do you keep on the nightstand near your bed or on the shelf next to your favorite chair? Those books (and magazines) probably sa...