TJs Woodshop

Who I Am

My name is TJ Brown and I grew up just outside of Malvern Arkansas in a little place named Gifford and I now live in Western Arkansas. 

I have always loved the outdoors and like seeing new places every chance I get.  Lucky for me my wife and my two daughters share the same love of the outdoors. So I always have someone to go hike to the top of a mountian or go wading in a river that I havent seen before. 

I have been using a scrollsaw for a little over 20 years.  It 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 late 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 call Intarsia.  

I knew I had to learn to do this, so I went to Tennesse and was taught how by a true master scoller and craftsman named Jerry Booher and the worlds best and most well known Intarsia artist Judy Gale Roberts. 

I hope you enjoy seeing my work as much as I like doing it.