His father was a woodcarver and gilder, and the boy learned carving from him. He received his early training from his father, Piero d'Angelo, a woodcarver and goldsmith. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan village. The woodcarver and the painter are unknown. Foundry patternmakers have historically been woodworkers with skills of a woodcarver, woodturner, and cabinet maker. A machinist is to metal as a woodcarver is to wood. Joseph Becker, a master woodcarver, helps him. In August 2010, SPD officer Ian Birk shot and killed Indian woodcarver John T. Williams. Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus 'father') of Pinocchio. In its grounds was a cottage at one time rented by master woodcarver Grinling Gibbons. Cabinet-maker and woodcarver constructed the chapel altar in 1630. His masterpiece as a woodcarver was an interpretation of Jacques-Louis David's "Napoleon Crossing the Alps". The wooden house was constructed and decorated by the woodcarver Oomeltcen Smetankinym. Manuel Baldemor is an internationally acclaimed woodcarver born in Paete. At the age of 22, Seidel went abroad to refine his skills as a woodcarver.