Mack S. Headley, Jr.

Mack S. Headley, Jr. began woodworking as a teenager during the late 1960s in his father’s Clarke County, Virginia, shop. A fourth-generation woodworker, he studied the tools and techniques of 18th century furniture making by repairing and reproducing period furniture in the classic traditions.

In the late 1970s, Headley began working in the historic Hay’s Cabinetmaking Shop at Colonial Williamsburg, where he now serves as master cabinetmaker. The living history museum recreates the daily grind of a busy cabinet shop that did business in the same location between the early 1750s and the Revolutionary War.