ABOUT MY WORK ... My pieces are intended to harmonize with your environment, as well as with our environment. I use native, sustainably harvested cherry and an oil finish. In the long run and most important, a well-designed, well-built piece of furniture that lasts 100 years is always preferable to one that can be bought at one quarter the price but must be replaced every ten years.   Since the mid 1970's, I've been privileged to do restoration work for the last Shaker community here at Sabbathday Lake, ME. The Shakers have had a profound influence on my work: their clean unadorned simplicity, functionalism and craftsmanship. Whether building an exact reproduction or drawing inspiration for my own designs, I keep the basic Shaker tenets in mind.   Every piece is built to order. My aim has been, and continues to be, to create the highest quality individually built furniture to suit your specific needs. Toward that end, I use the best wood available and time honored joinery techniques. When you invest in my furniture, you get the benefit of over four decades of experience in joinery, wood technology, restoration, design, technical perfection, and meticulous craftsmanship. You get furniture to enjoy for life, built by someone who really understands wood. As one client put it: "Your craftsmanship is incredible... so exacting, it's hard to believe that the piece was built in 1994."   After all these years, I still work alone. Each piece is designed, laid out, glued up, sanded, constructed and finished by me.
	Now Retired As of December 2023, I have fully retired. After 38 years in business, and 977 pieces leaving the shop, I am no longer taking orders, and will continue building smaller pieces for myself and friends. For the foreseeable future, I will still be writing for Fine Woodworking magazine, aiming for 100 articles, as well as maintaining my Instagram site.
Shaker reproductions... Shaker inspirations... ...and custom designs.
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