I have been carving wood utensils from hard maple and other locally available species continuously since 1977. This work is done in the belief that our tools of daily living should be well designed and carefully made. I am gratified that these objects can contribute to the celebratory aspects of cooking and dining.

My Table Tools®, made from figured hard maple, include six styles of salad servers, a serving spoon, several individual utensils and two sets. The individual utensils and the sets are available right and left-handed. Table Tools® are priced between $15 and $123.

I also carve One-of-a-kind Spoons that have sculptural qualities. These are typically treated as decorative objects (a large spoon as a dining table centerpiece, for example) or acquired by collectors. Most of these spoons are made from hard maple but I also carve other local woods. In recent years I have been working with European buckthorn, an introduced, highly invasive, non-commercial species. It is a strong wood and has an attractive yellow/orange/pink color along with unusual figure. Prices for my one-of-a-kind spoons start at just under $200 and range to approximately $600.

To view recent work in my "Special Salad Set" category, please click here to be taken directly to those pages.

All work in creating the Table Tools® and the one-of-a-kind spoons is done solely by me.

Since 1994 I have been sharing my craft by teaching spoonmaking at craft centers and at my workshop near Syracuse, NY.