About the Artist:
Todd Dobbels is an Indiana native, born and raised in west central Indiana. He began winning awards for his art creations in grade school, and continued his art passion by graduating from Ball State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts.
He has used his talent in many facets of the art world by creating and implementing intricate landscape and hardscape designs for rustic, contemporary, and traditional homes. He listens to the goals and desires of the clients to produce their desired results.
Todd has now taken his artistic talents to the historic art colony in beautiful Brown County, Indiana. His wood working shop is in Gnaw Bone Indiana. He has named his business Gnaw Bone Woodcraft!
He is using his art knowledge and his creative personality to custom build live edge furniture from native hardwood. He enjoys working with these wood slabs, as he envisions the personality of each piece. With his creativity, each wood slab becomes a stunning custom made piece of furniture.
Gnaw Bone, Indiana
Gnaw Bone is an unincorporated settlement in beautiful Brown County, Indiana. The origin of the unusual name has a couple of theories.
One theory is the name may be derived from the original French settlers in the area who called it Narbonne, named after the southern French city of Narbonne. To the English settlers, it sounded like Gnaw Bone!
Another theory or story involves a dog. As a traveler would pass through the area, it is told there was always a dog at the corner, laying down gnawing on a bone. When someone wanted directions, they would be told “it’s out there at the corner where the dog gnaws on that bone”.
‘Gnaw Bone’ is frequently noted on the list of places with unusual names. .
Indiana Hardwoods for Your Furniture
Indiana has some of the best hardwood forests in the world.
It’s a place where eastern forests intermix with western prairies. The soil is rich and highly productive, and creates timberlands with the finest and highest quality temperate hardwoods in the world, that produce high-quality wood.
These renewable resources consist of a wide range of species here, with the finest walnut, oak, ash, hickory, maple, cherry, and tulip as the major species. And minor species of locust, sassafras, sycamore, catalpa, and more. According to Incontext.Indiana.edu Indiana’s forests reportedly grow over 50% faster than what is harvested, meaning this is one of the very best renewable resources.
Gnaw Bone Woodcraft 