About Nantucket Swings

Although just founded in 2022, the Nantucket Swing Company has been “work-shopped” in the creative corners of my mind for many years. I knew somehow I would work with wood one day and have a wood shop to create. As a kid I spent hours in my family’s barn in Connecticut building things with my dad. He taught me how to conceptualize, sketch out and use hand tools to craft demential objects from a flat piece of wood. Those skills have stuck with me.

A half-century later, I made it happen. The aha moment was when I realized I needed to find something I actually wanted to make before starting a wood business. That something would be a rope swings.

Swings have always intrigued me. So simple yet incredibly beautiful, functional and fun for all ages! It’s fair to say that everyone has sat and pumped their legs on a swing at least once in their life. And probably screamed while they did.

I set out to build not just a rope swing but a piece of hanging art. Each swing is unique; sourcing beautiful, sacred, and historic wood from around the planet. After each plank is machined and the rope is spliced together the swings are personalized by engraving names, places, dates or words that the swing’s recipient will hold close to their heart.