Wm. “Trapper” Haskins studied woodworking at The Apprenticeshop in Maine where he undertook a two-year apprenticeship in traditional wooden boatbuilding. Following graduation, he rowed and sailed a small hand-built boat more than 2,300 miles down the Mississippi River. Trapper wrote about the experience in a memoir titled Crooked Old River which was published in 2024. 

In the years following his apprenticeship, Haskins pursued a wide array of woodworking opportunities—including log home building, wooden ship repair, historic preservation carpentry, and furniture design—from New York to New Orleans and from the mountains of North Carolina to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan before returning to his home state of Tennessee. 

Founded by Trapper in 2005, Haskins Woodworks, LLC has been committed to the highest standards of the craft for more than 20 years.