Jason A. Lonon (Woodworker - Ironworker)

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After serving a three year apprenticeship in the late '90s with a master cabinet maker, I started on my own as a woodworker and blacksmith. Combining a love of history and working with my hands, I built Colonial and Shaker furniture, primitive camp furniture and green wood bowls and spoons. In my tiny blacksmith shop under a spreading oak tree, I made all kinds of hardware, camp gear for reenactors, axes, knives and tools. Though all the variety kept me from getting bored, I felt compelled to specialize, and yet unable to choose between wood and iron.  So I continued taking what jobs came along: furniture repair, teaching blacksmithing at a summer camp, peddling my wares at reenactments...

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