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Pyrography, DRAWINGS and Woodcarving

About Alan and Nedra Denison

Welcome to the sometimes wild and crazy world of Sawdust Connection and Nedra's Pyrography. This world started long before Alan and Nedra became "The Denison's" about 11 years ago.

Alan is a woodcarver from way back, or should I say finger carver, because that's what he first started doing at the age of 11. After refining his techniques, he finally figured out that carving wood was much more effective and less expensive than buying stock in band-aids. Alan enjoyed whittling away on caricatures and eventually started carving canes and other "John Wayne" original pyrography by Nedra Denison oddities. When Alan got involved in the Texas Woodcarvers Guild and attended some of their rallies, Nedra started getting just a little bit jealous. He was having just too much fun, so when Alan attended the 2000 Spring rally, Nedra went along and took a chip carving class. Nedra thought this was great fun, but the entire time she was taking this class she had the smell of burning wood behind her and couldn't resist the temptation to try woodburning herself. Well, she got Alan to stay in Fredericksburg one more day so she could have her hand in woodburning and the rest is history. She's been burning the house down ever since. Nedra has been doing Pyrography now, has won many awards for her work and has been sought after to teach classes throughout Texas.

Well, now that Alan and Nedra were both hip deep in wood, they decided to do something with all that wood. Alan was hoping to retire from his job with the VA in the next year and needed to find something to do with his time, so he started his own business. And if you have a business, you have to have a name. Since Al was heavily into his new RBI Scroll saw at the time and creating lots of sawdust, he came up with the name Sawdust Connection. He said he was the connection between all that sawdust on the floor and the finished piece of art he was creating. And so, you have the history of Sawdust Connection.

Through Sawdust Connection, Alan sells his woodcrafts and woodcarving/burning supplies at woodcarving and craft shows. Now that Alan is retired, he can devote all his attention to his woodcarving and Sawdust Connection.

After winning many awards for her pyrography and building up her confidence in her art, Nedra started teaching and it was finally time to start her own business, a little over a year ago and what better name than, Nedra's Pyrography. The focus of her business is her pyrography and teaching pyrography, however Nedra has now started dabbling in some pencil drawing. What started out as therapy for Nedra, has now turned into a new beginning.

What We Do

Alan's love is his scrollsaw and caricature carving and if you give him a piece of wood he lets it talk to him and tell him what it's going to be. He can turn a block of wood into some wonderful creations and you never know what he is going to create. Nedra's love is Pyrography, but she sometimes dabbles in Chip Carving.

Welcome To Our Website

We thank you for visiting our website and hope you enjoy browsing through our galleries of wood carvings and pyrographic art.

We also stock a wide variety of basswood products, including plates in a variety of shapes and sizes, planks and rounds; Beech bowls; Italian Poplar and tagua nut slices. We also carry all the Pyrography books that are currently available as well as all the tools you will need to burn, including the Razertip woodburning system and the Walnut Hollow Creative Burner for those that are just getting started and don't want to invest in a good burner yet. Please check out our order pages for a fairly complete list of all the books, burners, supplies and wood for all your pyrography and chip carving needs. Those pages are a little slower loading due to the graphics, but please be patient it's worth the short wait.

If you are interested in purchasing any of our pyrographic art work or carvings, or would like to schedule pyrography classes, please contact us.

Thank you again for visiting our website

Alan & Nedra Denison

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