Tim Biggs has made a career and a hobby out of working with wood. "I started whittling for my own entertainment, and it was then I discovered there are a lot of things to be seen inside of wood," Biggs said. "Some people just whittle a stick away, but I try to make something out of it -- a walking stick, a sling shot, and pictures."
Biggs, who was given his first pocket knife at the age of three, learned early on how to work with his hands. "In high school, I was going to vocational school to enhance my mechanical drawing, drafting, and blue printing," he said. "A teacher gave us a project of drawing up something for the class, so I drew up a log house, and it kind of struck me as something I had the desire to do."
Biggs began building log houses in 1985 in the Bluegrass area of Kentucky and lived there for 37 years before coming home. "I moved back to Clay County to do something for the area," he said. "If I'm cutting logs in Lexington, I can do the same here."
--Adapted from a Manchester Enterprise article
Biggs, who was given his first pocket knife at the age of three, learned early on how to work with his hands. "In high school, I was going to vocational school to enhance my mechanical drawing, drafting, and blue printing," he said. "A teacher gave us a project of drawing up something for the class, so I drew up a log house, and it kind of struck me as something I had the desire to do."
Biggs began building log houses in 1985 in the Bluegrass area of Kentucky and lived there for 37 years before coming home. "I moved back to Clay County to do something for the area," he said. "If I'm cutting logs in Lexington, I can do the same here."
--Adapted from a Manchester Enterprise article