Vtbowls.com
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VTBOWLS - Wood Bowls, wooden handmade,and wood handturned specialty pieces.
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About Us
All the bowls and other wood pieces shown are made by my wife and I at our home here in northern Vermont. We live in the farmhouse I was born in up here in the" North East Kingdom" of Vermont. I have lived here all my life, so far anyway, as we say up here.
My family has lived in this town in Vermont since 1800. For seven generations we have all been farmers, loggers and tradesmen. My wife and I have owned a small sawmill here since 1984 doing retail work and custom sawing. We bought a new bandmill in 1996 and started to concentrate more on custom sawing. We have always enjoyed working with wood but never really had the time to explore the finishing part of woodworking. Sawing the wide variety of wood that some of the local furniture makers and woodworkers bring here has been interesting in that it showed us what character and beauty was in some of the older or lower quality trees that would ordinarily be thrown into the woodpile or left in the woods.
A few years ago we started with a small wood lathe that we picked up at a yard sale. It has been an interesting experience. We are completely self taught. We have improved our equipment and are learning more about turning and woodworking as we go along. We take some of the wood that would be discarded or sawed into firewood and turn it into some pretty nice pieces. Some we sell to local woodworkers, carvers, carpenters and furniture makers. Some we finish into bowls, lamps or other items. Some we just keep and move around from place to place until someone either buys it or we get the idea to do something with it. Sometimes we just get tired of handling it or moving it around and toss it in the wood stove. That is usually right before someone shows up looking for just the sort of piece of wood we just got rid of. That's one of the things that make the wood business so interesting.
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