Sam Angelo
Wyoming Wood Turner

Born in Akron, Ohio Sam Angelo began a love of wood and making things while working for building contractors while still in high school.

Sam Attended college in Montana on a basketball scholarship and began teaching school in a one-room schoolhouse in 1973, 70 miles from the nearest town.   Currently working as a middle school Counselor, he spends time in the school’s Industrial Technology shop giving lathe demonstrations and helping kids with woodworking projects.  Sam coached track at the high school level for 25 years.  During that period, he coached on 9 Wyoming State Championship track teams and individually coached 25 state champions.

Never far from woodworking, he began to refurbish and build furniture and custom cabinets in the early 80’s near his present home in Wyoming.

In 1988 Sam borrowed a Boise-Crane lathe that sparked a fire for turning that has never gone out.