This is what my women would refer to as my creation station. I feel very blessed to be able to approach my art in a piece of art. I have always felt more connected to my arts when I am home in western Maine.

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This is the upper part of that beech tree burl post.  In Adirondack log building you want to peserve as much as the natural form as possible and also try to that natural form a application. I love to use the branches as a coat rack its form meets function. Instead of buying a coat rack let mother nature grow you one.

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This is the post at the bottom of my stairs in my studio. It is a giant burl that formed on a beech tree. I found it half way up ski mountain. I waited to a couple days after ski season ended to harvest it me and a friend hiked up to it. This burl was 25 feet off the ground and we cut it down with a little hand saw. It was the biggest pain in the ass. Beech trees are very dense wood. So after the hour and a half cutting the base. It got stuck in a v notch that was below it then we pried it out of it. Then I had to climb higher in the tree to cut the branches to release it from another branch. Then it fell in another smaller tree and then we had to cut it down to get the burl to the ground. This burl and the set of branches above it weigh about 500 pounds and were still half way up the mountain and there was just two of us. It took about 6 hours to get in the back of my truck. I like to thank my friend steve for the help.  Then it took me and my dad a about 7 hours to remove all the bark from it. The bark was about 4 inches thick on the burl. That one post took about 26 man hour to create but it turned out perfect. This piece is one of my favorite in my studio.

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This is a bench in my studio. It was made from a white pine slab that was cut with a chainsaw mill. The legs of the bench are made from a poplar tree that fell over at some point maybe from a ice storm we had ten years ago. The direction of the tree’s growth changed the branches facing the sky took off, and the top of the tree died. It made perfect legs. The back of the bench is made from another poplar tree that was bet over and twisted probably from that same ice storm. The spindals are all small sugar maple saplings. It took a couple days of work to create. You would not believe how comfortable it is for a wooden bench it is all about the natural back camber.

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This is the support to my DJ table its a oak tree like no other oak tree that I’ve ever seen. When it grew out of a side of a hill it twisted back onto itself. The two parts of the trunk at some point touched and they ended up grafting together. This piece took me about seven hours to peel the bark off of it before it was put in place.

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This is a picture inside my studio. A spiral stair case made with 5 inch oak logs that have been set into a poppler tree. There is also a birch tree for a hand rail. It  take you up to my DJ booth where I like to drop mad beats.

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A six sided Adirondack log house that is my art studio. Built by my farther and I. We started building it in 2005 with no drawing and during it’s creation we never had a drawing. We made it on the fly. It was finished a year and a half latter. It’s creation truly was my dream coming true.

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