Woodworking

Allen Arcand/ Oliver's Woodworks

I build custom furniture using various hardwoods utilizing traditional joinery, i.e. hand cut dovetails, mortise and tenon joints, and pegged joints in the shaker and craftsman styles. I love working with rough lumber and crafting it into beautiful pieces of furnilture for my clients. My favorite woods to work are cherry, walnut, curly maple, and white oak. My pieces are always a custom collaboration
between my client and myself.

Mike Taylor/Willow Wisp Farm Studios

Mike Taylor is a graduate of Clemson University with a degree in Industrial Training. It was at Clemson he took a course in woodworking and through the years he has continued to develop his skills.

A love for model building and all the detail work involved drew Taylor to the world of miniature furniture making. For a number of years he concentrated on making and selling his miniature creations. When Mike's wife opened Willow Wisp Farm Studios; an art school offering plein air art workshops, Taylor moved from miniature making to designing and making the ArtAttack© line of pochade boxes for both oil and pastel landscape painting.

Taylor decided to branch out and make other types of boxes. He studied marquetry with Mark Adams at the Mark Adams School of Woodworking which has led him down the path to where he is today, making detailed marquetry designs on boxes and other items.

Taylor has collectors across America who have purchased his work. One of his marquetry jewelry boxes will soon be featured in a Sears Craftsmen tools advertisement.

David Kaylor

Joyce Kilmer marveled at the beauty of the tree, emphasizing its outward grandeur. I join him in that admiration, but I also have begun to learn about the inner beauty of this wonderful creation God has given us. Trees can tell us their history, of dynamic growth, of recovery from injury, of struggle in the midst of disease and decay.

In looking for wood to turn, I seek pieces that fascinate by their unusual character and that promise to reveal their story, such as burls, spalted wood, or wormy wood. I also like to turn wood that comes from a special place, or that has sentimental meaning to me or to someone else.

In all my work, I try to reveal the natural beauty and character of the wood through creating pieces with simple lines and satin finishes.