Hey there,

My name is Dante Radysh, I am a crafter and carpenter. I live and work on my small homestead with my partner Lu, in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in Fayette County, West Virginia. Surrounded by the same trees that often become my creative works, there is an inherent, deep connection between place and craft.

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All of the work I make is created using found, salvaged, or coppiced wood, using traditional hand tools such as the hook knife, froe, axe, and gouge. Many pieces are carved from greenwood, following a hundreds of years long tradition of craftsmanship. This ensures integrity and strength, creating goods that can last a lifetime or more.

 

Each piece begins as a raw log, and is revealed through cleaving, axing, carving, burnishing and finally sealing with 100% natural, food safe linseed oil.There is something magical about carving a chuck of wood that one might as soon burn in a campfire into a bowl or spoon that can be used countless times for years to come. The presence I feel in myself and the place I am when crafting is part of what I love so much about this work. In sharing these objects with you I pass on some of this magic and love, and carry these important traditional techniques  that connect us to mind, body, and place into the future, perhaps inspiring a few to take up a knife and piece of wood themselves. 

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