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Dan Abernathy
To Dan researching, photographing and observing real birds is almost as much fun as carving and painting life scale birds from a variety of woods.
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Bill Apelian
At the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in South Carolina, Bill Apelian creates heirlooms in wood. Using traditional tools—handsaws, carving gouges, and artist's oil
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Gary Bills
"I look long and hard to find an extraordinary piece of wood with fantastic figure to create your piece of art."
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Caryl Brt
With a resume that includes car mechanic, landscaper, itinerant apple picker, railroad brakeman, carpenter and back-to-the-lander, it makes sense that Caryl builds furniture.
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Pat Buhrke
Handcrafting fine rustic furnishings from materials indigenous to Western North Carolina since 1998. I offer a broad range of furnishings from chandeliers to dining room
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Bill Collison
Tina Collison
Bill creates natural edged and thin-walled woodturnings. Tina creates the surface embellishments and piercing designs, elevating craft into art.
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Buzz Coren
I enjoy the entire process of woodworking. From raw lumber's earthy fragrance to the visual beauty of grain and figure and sensuous feel of finely
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Andrew R. Costine
I combine figured burls with geometric shapes.I believe this elevates the natural edge material.
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Walt Cottingham
I have lived in the Southern Appalachians for most of my life, and have been creating craft pieces since childhood. I use natural materials,
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Allen W. Davis
My wife, the quilter, says I quilt with wood. My woodturnings, "pieced" from precise cuts of hardwoods, have a geometric "quilt block" appearance, with
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Edwin G. Decker
Mixing natural edges with the elegance of straight lines, Ed Decker's wood furniture seems to breathe as if alive.
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John L. Dickens
My name is John Dickens and I have been carving for 48 years.Thirty three professionally. I try to make each carving a
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Brian Fireman
Brian Fireman is a furniture designer specializing in hand-crafted contemporary furniture. Formal education in both geology and architecture, fascination with wood as an organic
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Tom Gow
I have been carving since 1991 when I entered my first piece in a wood carving show and won a blue ribbon in the novice
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Dana Hatheway
Dana Hatheway is a custom woodworker who lives and works from his home studio. He began his woodworking career at Penland School of Crafts in
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Johnny A. Hembree
In the foothills of the Ohio Appalachian Mountains I create handcrafted heritage woodcarvings.
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Derek Hennigar
I call my work Ordinary Furniture attempting to convey the humor and impulsiveness necessary for innovative design while acknowledging that no task in human history
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Alan W. Hollar
Woodturning and carving allow the most intimate relationship with my materials. I aim to use technique to reveal and enhance what is hidden beneath
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Rodger E. Jacobs
I am a member of the baby boom generation. I was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1946. My dad transferred from Duke to Ohio
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Ray Jones
As much as possible I use only wood in my boxes, including the fasteners, hinges, and drawer slides. These give the lids, drawers and doors
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Douglas Lacher
Doug Lacher creates his unique lamps, sconces, and sculpture from solid hardwood and from hardwood veneer selected for grain pattern, color tone, and translucence.
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Susan Link
"The most rewarding part of my work is bringing an idea or a vision to life and then being pleased with the outcome."
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Michael P. McDunn
Michael McDunn crafts master-level custom furniture and performs precise antique restoration. For thirty years, his Studio has provided highest quality
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Jim McGie
Jim McGie is a one-of-a-kind Appalachian Craftsman who creates one-of-a-kind traditional family heirlooms.
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Kent Merrill
Kent Merrill, Fine Furniture Maker
Kent Merrill designs and crafts his furniture to fully express the natural beauty of solid,
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Richard Nease
Toy making and design began over 33 years ago as a way to create simple and sturdy toys which would appeal to "children" of all
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Steve Noggle
Steve has been working with trees and wood since finishing a degree in Forestry in 1976 from LSU in Baton Rouge. After a
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Bud & Suzanne Richards
With Bud’s background in aeronautics, and his and Suzi’s love of ornithology, history, art, and literature, the two have combined their talents to imagine, design,
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Jack Rogers
I have been working with wood in one way or another for most of my life. I gained a little experience tuning wood in college,
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Don Stevenson
The unique three dimensional line and form of Don Stevenson's hand sculpted birdhouses and bird feeders, all scaled replicas of old buildings from our vanishing
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Journel Thomas
Native to Appalachia, Journel was born into a family that valued hard work, self-sufficiency and hand skills. Both his father
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Tom Turner
When I start a new carving, my pulse races in anticipation. I study the wood block for a long time before cutting into it with
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Jim Wiley
"When they swim off, I'll have achieved what I'm striving for."
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