Represented Wood artisans Neil Austin Don Bailey Lynn Bailey Juliet Bell Don Beamish Don Best Mark Brandhorst Steve Brotherton Joel Brokaw Karma Brokaw Gary Daley Tom Davin Linda Deardorff John DeAscentis Mark Diebolt Sharon Diebolt Bill Durovchic Charles Elkan Charles Faucher Mike Fisher Joel Gelfand Richard Greenman Eric Jorgensen Mary Kesler Will Kirkpatrick Paul Knox Susan Knox Sy Levine Yoav Liberman Cliff Lounsbury Mike Mahoney Kurt Meyer Bob Murphy David Okrant Kim Okrant Cheryl Olney Ernie Palmacci Russel Pool Steve Reznick Bob Sandock George Saridakis Jonathan Simons Jock Snaith Don Stinson Elwood Turner Brenda Watts T. Bayley Wharton Ernie White J. G. White Isaac Willis Ed Wohl Lou Works Paul Yacoe	Ernest White/Mummy Case Clock The clock pictured is a mummy case clock designed and sculpted by Ernest White. He produced a number of these clocks in the eighties and the owner of Handworks, Glenn Johnson, only recently convinced him to make some more. Ernest White began a second career as a woodworker when he retired from mechanical engineering in 1972. He combined a love for wood with his interest in mechanics by designing and building clocks. He sometimes finds antique , wind-up weight driven clock movements, which hešll refurbish and design cases for. He also acquires new, old-fashioned spring style wind-up movements with pendulums and chimes like he uses in the mummy case. Ernest also makes an assortment of round clocks that he lathe turns from an 8-segment blank. All of his clocks are signed and numbered and each is unique. Charles Faucher/natural wood turned bowls Charles has been working with wood since his graduation from Philadelphia College of Art in the '70's. His woodturning had always been associated with larger pieces but a couple of years ago, he purchased a classic lathe of robust precision design. The solo possibilities of a lathe had always intrigued him and since purchasing his lathe he has been turning small lidded boxes and bowls, large and small, seeking out other turners and immersing himself in local turning culture. "It is a wonderful new path for me," says Charles, " as I explore wood from a fresh point of view. The lathe does a very simple thing, after all; it spins the wood. Whatever sense and shape the wood acquires is completely up to me. It is like carving or sculpture; the skill with which I wield a gouge or skew, applying just the right pressure, veering and lifting to part away everything that is not a bowl or box, is a constant challenge. If I get it right, a box, a little mystery of dark lidded recess or a bowl, a stylized cupped hand gesture, is the wonderful result." Mike Mahoney/maple burl bowls Mike grew up in Northern California with a love for working with wood. His bowls have been sold worldwide. Hollywood Actors Joanna Kerns and Dan Lauria starred in a film about a woodturner. Mike acted as the technical adviser and his bowls were the main feature. The wood Mike uses to turn his bowls is mostly from unwanted trees near his home in Utah that have been removed due to death or disease. He salvages wood that otherwise would be burned as firewood or taken to the landfill. In this discarded wood, he finds maple burls, curly cottonwood, claro walnut, and other beautiful woods. After turning the bowls, he dries them for a year and then turns them again to finish them. Go back to     top of page | Homepage | Ceramics | Glass | Jewelry | Wood | Fiber | Sculpture | Events | Email us All Content and Artwork Copyright 2000/Handworks Gallery of American Crafts. Site Designed by Gardiner Design