Matt Monaco

Matt Monaco operates full-time woodturning studios within the Ozark region of the USA and offers his works to select local & worldwide clientele of both custom retail & wholesale craft industry and collectors as a full-time professional maker of traditionally turned craft. — Among his generation, Matt Monaco is the only traditional Master Woodturner in America who’s (since youth) trained, apprenticed, and undertaken the initial education, countless hours, and overall professional experience & time spent at the lathe required to pursue, and successfully build a legitimate full-time career as a professional maker within both the wholesale tradeshow & retail makers circuit (as a sole proprietor) as well as within the high-end professional furniture trades, as in-house Production Woodturner for Shackleton Thomas Furniture & Pottery.

​At the center of Matt’s work is his understanding in the importance of pursuing fine form, finesse, advanced tool control, sharpening, and cutting execution as a reflection of traditionally crafted design; in producing works made to be as tactile as they are sublime and created with intent & purpose. –Matt is also a Fine Woodworking Contributor & Ambassador who values the vision and applied work-study time necessary to account for encouraging high-quality, traditional woodturning to exist as a refined art, alongside sharing the expression of the craft as calling for any individual’s motivation to either gain the confidence, technique, and finesse necessary to develop and form an exciting & rewarding hobby, or to harness a professional level of skill at the lathe for the long term.