Vermont Hardwood Creations
In the very north of Vermont I live on fifteen acres of woodlot managed sustainably. My bandsaw sawmill pictured above is my tool to turn the trees I harvest into lumber exactly to my specifications. This custom cut lumber is stickered and dried in piles covered from the weather. Then it goes into my heated workshop where it reaches indoor moisture content waiting its turn while I work on my creations. From tree to finished creation, I am the sole grunt and artisan responsible for every aspect of what I sell. That way I can be sure that my piece of Vermont, my small woodlot, is cared for properly. That way I can ensure my trees are harvested sustainably, take the utmost care in milling those trees, and still earn my keep by building reasonably priced furniture from green grown and harvested lumber.
I take the time to find and mill unique trees a commercial mill would never consider. Each log is sawn for not only the highest quality lumber, but for unique grain patterns or qualities such as spalted maple. I cut my lumber a thicker than most commercial mills do, so that when boards are dry, their inevitable cups, bows, and warps can be planed and jointed out of them while leaving the boards thicker than the normal 3/4". I like to use full inch boards in my creations.
All this sets my creations apart from other furniture makers. Mine are nothing like Walmart's pressed wood cheap China knock-offs. Nor comparable are large cabinet companies' products in real hardwood. Not even furniture produced by custom woodshops compare to mine precisely because mine are made from my lumber and I mill it thicker so my creations are thicker and sturdier. Every facet in the production of my creations is done personally by me.
I favor sturdy and economical rather than museum polished. I want everybody to be able to afford real hardwood creations. Often I choose wood with wild, convoluted grain patterns because I find them beautiful. But they are much more difficult to polish to museum perfect and thus the careful observer will discover tiny grain character imperfections. I feel this adds to the character of the piece, while keeping the price more economical. Sturdiness, beauty, and the ability to withstand the abuse of the real world is more important to me than having my pieces featured as works of art. Please use my furniture and enjoy its special beauty, pile my bookcases full, crowd my tables. They can take it.
I've crossed my wood craft with my photographic craft. Both my hanging and my table lamps use "stained glass" lampshades, with my photographs in place of the glass. Custom printed transparencies of either my frost series or my sunrise over Jay Peak series, serve as the stained glass. That way you can enjoy the photographs as I see them while taking them. The bulb in the lamp substitues for the power of the sun behind both the frost and sunrise over Jay photographs. In this way I marry my photographic art with my wood art to create both a functional lamp and an art piece in your house. | 
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