About Us

Bill Schaudt Wood Creations

Bill Schaudt Wood Creations is a family-owned chainsaw art business based in Cranberry Township, PA for over 10 years. Head carvers Bill Schaudt and Barb Giegucz – along with their support staff and guest artists – are dedicated to living up to the Wood Creations slogan: “We bring logs to life!” Each piece is custom made in our signature rustic style. Pieces come in all shapes and sizes, and can be customized to your specifications. If you can imagine it, we can bring it to life.

Our Team:

Bill Schaudt

Barbara Giegucz

Expertise: Wildlife Carvings, Rustic Furniture, and Custom Creations. With about 20 years of experience, Bill is our founder and head carver.

Barbara Giegucz

Expertise: Customs Signs and Lawn Decorations. Barb is our second head carver.

JUSTIN DRIVER

Barbara Giegucz

JUSTIN DRIVER

Owner of Once Upon a Log Chainsaw Carving, Justin visits from Kentucky to guest carve for us. Find him at: https://www.onceuponalog.com/

Luke Sassani

Luke is an art instructor and one of our most gifted guest carvers. See more about his work at: http://lukesassani.blogspot.com/

Greg Harold

Luke Sassani

Marketing/promotions, sales, social media, tech, and misc.

Show and Action Shots

Video Gallery

Life at Bill Schaudt Wood Creations - B-Roll video

Bill Schaudt Wood Creations on Pittsburgh Today Live, April 17 (pt 1)

View a Bill Schaudt Wood Creations interview segment (part 1) with Celina Pompeani of Pittsburgh Today Live, KDKA Channel 2. We had an absolute blast for this appearance on the April 16 show. Celina was so much fun. . . and a natural talent on the saw.

Bill Schaudt Wood Creations on Pittsburgh Today Live, April 17 (pt 2)

View a Bill Schaudt Wood Creations interview segment (part 2) with Celina Pompeani of Pittsburgh Today Live, KDKA Channel 2.

The Adventures of Sassy the (Chainsaw Carved) Sasquatch

The Adventures of Sassy the (Chainsaw Carved) Sasquatch. See the story of Sassy's travels. Go visit Ol' Sassy at its new campground home: Austin Lake RV Park & Cabins @austinlakeohio http://austinlakepark.com/

Chainsaw Carvers Create Special Fall Pieces - Pittsburgh Today Live - CBS.

View a little clip from our October 17 appearance on Pittsburgh Today Live, KDKA Channel 2. This section with Ron Smiley introduces us and sets up a longer segment later in the show with hosts Heather Abraham and David Highfield.

Heather & David Learn How To Make Chainsaw Wood Carvings - Pittsburgh Today Live - CBS.

View our interview segment with Heather Abraham and David Highfield of Pittsburgh Today Live, KDKA Channel 2. We were featured on the Oct 17 show and we had a great time.

Bill Schaudt on Faces & Places for the 2013 Butler Chainsaw Carving Invitational.

A short clip from Armstrong Local Programming's Keystone: Faces and Places featuring Bill Schaudt's interview with host Larry Berg. The segment was filmed for a feature on the 2013 Butler Chainsaw Carving Invitational. To see the entire show, visit Armstrong's upload here: https://youtu.be/e3NxzW6g9Z4

Outdoors With The Morgans.

#104 More Homemade Gift Ideas, CHAINSAW Carving

More Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas from my buddy Bill who is a chainsaw carver.Bill uses his Husqvarna and Stihl Chainsaws to create Beautiful gifts.

Outdoors With The Morgans.

#99 How To Carve A Christmas Tree With Your Chainsaw

In this video we take a little road trip to Bill Schaudts Wood Creations to Learn a Little bit about chainsaw carving and how to make DIY Christmas Presents. Bill Uses Both Stihl and Husqvarna Chain Saws and his Bobcat T-300 makes easy work of carrying large logs.

Bill Discusses New Bear Carving

Bill talks about the progress on a new bear carving, which he is working on in tandem with specialty carver Luke Sassani.

See the finished product in our "Bears" photo gallery!

Pandemic Year Greeting and Shop Tour

2020, the year of the pandemic, is coming to a close, and Bill expresses his gratitude to customers, venue hosts, and workers for helping Bill Schaudt Wood Creations not only survive, but thrive! There's a lot going on in the shop. Bill takes you on a tour of all the projects in progress. So many cool chainsaw carvings to see!

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A Gift To Remember

We love making big ol grizzly bear chainsaw carvings at Bill Schaudt Wood Creations, but there's room in our shop for all kinds of one-of-a-kind gifts. Thanks to the Harold family of Cranberry Twp/Pittsburgh for sharing this clip of one such wood creations being presented for Mother’s Day.

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Simple Snowman Chainsaw Carving Tutorial

Bill Schaudt of Bill Schaudt Wood Creations takes you on a step-by-step tutorial of how to create a simple snowman chainsaw carving for the holiday season. Have some tools and are looking for a fun and creative gift idea this year? Grab your saw and let Bill help you get to work!

Outdoors with the Morgans: "Visit From The PROS! Chainsaw Games, Talking Saws and More! Video #1001"

Outdoors with the Morgans BTS & Mike Morgan Interview

Bill has been a regular guest on Outdoors with the Morgans. See some behind-the-scene clips from the filming session for video #1001: “Visit From The PROS! Chainsaw Games, Talking Saws and More!” Be sure to watch through the end to see Bill conduct a short interview with Mike Morgan, as the man himself explains how his YouTube venture has grown and expanded.

Outdoors with the Morgans: "Happy to see this come Together"

Wild Bill the chainsaw carver and John a Vietnam Veteran who shares some amazing stories.