Welcome to Sanderson’s Wooden Bowls. All the bowls displayed on our website and in our workshop are made by us, Sam and Weeza Sanderson, at our studio in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. This area of Vermont has been home to my family since the early 1800’s. For eight generations, my family has been loggers, farmers, and tradesmen. I was born in the farmhouse that houses our workshop and studio, and is still a working farm where we raise rabbits and Nigerian Dwarf goats. Since 1984, my wife Weeza and I have been in woodworking, doing retail work and custom sawing with a small sawmill on our property. Our passion for creating wooden bowls grew out of this early saw work and our relationships with other local Vermont woodworkers and furniture makers. We have discovered what character and beauty are in some of the old growth trees and in the burls that would ordinarily be thrown into the woodpile or left in the woods.
Our woodworking studio is open to the public, and we encourage visitors to the area to stop in and see how our Vermont wooden bowls are made. Upon arrival, most visitors are interested in the log piles, the tractor, chainsaws and other evidence of the rough work that goes into making our authentic Vermont wooden bowls from the logs. We buy logs from local loggers, and only use wood that is native to our area for our bowls. People sometimes bring us special wood, perhaps from a tree on their property, which we are happy to turn as a custom project.
Our showroom hosts a variety of bowls, platters, dishes and other items turned out of wood. Visitors are impressed by the variety of bowls, their shapes, sizes, and especially their quality. We use only food safe oils on our wooden bowls, so these bowls are both beautiful and functional. Visitors to the studio also enjoy the unusual bowls with special shapes, some made from burls, and some turned from tapped Sugar Maple trees with the tap holes from years ago still showing in the finished bowl. Some of our pens, bottle stoppers, fan pulls, and key rings are turned from deer or moose antler or from unusual pieces of wood with gorgeous unique grains.
The wood for our creations has already lived one lifetime in the tree. Weeza and I work together at Sanderson’s Vermont Bowls to give that wood a second life by creating hand-turned wooden bowls that our customers will cherish for years to come. We hope that you will stop by our farm and studio when visiting Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, or shop online here to bring our authentic Vermont wooden bowls home to you.
2902 Vermont Route 114, East Burke, VT 05832
Phone: 802-626-9622 Email: weeza@vtbowls.com
https://www.vtbowls.com
