I grew up in outside of Malvern Arkansas in a little country community named Gifford, I live in western Arkansas now.

I have been using a scrollsaw for a little over 24 years.  I started with a old used saw that I bought from a retired gentleman.

Later on my father bought me a new saw and I started doing more detailed work.  Then in the mid 90's, I met the best scroller I had ever seen.  

His name is Bernie Mazu and he did the most amazing  woodwork I had ever seen with a scrollsaw. 

He was kind enough to share some of his knowledge with me and thats when I started discovering some of the amazing things that could be done with one.   

I bought the best scrollsaw made and used it everyway I could think of for the next 10 years. I thought I had done just about everything that could be done with a scrollsaw, then I discovered something new to me called Intarsia.  

I knew I had to learn to do this, so I went to  east Tennessee and was taught how by a true master scroller and craftsman named Jerry Booher and the worlds best known Intarsia artist Judy Gale Roberts, who is credited with bringing this artform back. 

 When I first started doing scroll work, I would have never believed some of the places it would end up. 

Some of the things I have made are displayed in homes and businesses all across America, from Miami to Beverly Hills and some has been shipped as far away as Alaska, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Greece.

I have even had the pleasure of going up to Anchorage Alaska to teach a scrolling class.   

I can remember sitting there cutting out my first little rocking horse with a scroll saw my father had bought me over twenty years ago and I never imagined where some of my woodwork or I would end up going.