Tom Sterling
Tom Sterling began a unique and award winning career in wood art by carving Japanese netsuke as a mechanism for coping with the extreme stresses of an Air Force career flying F-111 fighter bombers (the “switchblade Edsel”). After retiring from the Air Force, he began carving netsuke professionally, becoming well known in the international circles of netsuke collectors. Now, branching out into producing art knives, his background in Japanese art reveals itself in a unique melding with the other past cultures that have caught his interest along the way. After taking up an offer from Dr. J.P. Higgins to learn flintknapping, Tom became fascinated with stone tools and he and Joe became collaborators making contemporary knapped knives.
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Last Updated: Wednesday Dec 9, 2009