In his words
Why the lathe
I fell for the lathe because it is honest. You cannot hide anything on it. Every curve you leave behind is a decision, and the wood tells you very quickly whether it was a good one.
Over the past decade I have turned thousands of custom pieces, and I ran a gallery before this one. What I learned from both is that people do not keep objects because they are expensive. They keep them because of who gave them, and what the object remembers.
So that is what I make: things that remember. A pen turned from the oak that shaded a family's porch. A crochet hook shaped around the hand of a grandmother who has made a blanket for every grandchild. A pipe for a father's retirement, from a burl that took a century to grow.
Every piece in this gallery is one of a kind, and every one carries my promise: if it ever fails you, I will repair it or remake it in kind.
William DeVito
