The Salty Sitkan

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The Salty Sitkan

Lifelong Sitkan, third generation shop teacher, love to help inspire others to create and make.

Mike is a lifelong Sitkan and a third generation High School Shop Teacher. Mike, his wife, two daughters and Springer Spaniel call Sitka home year-round. The Salty Sitkan teaches Woodworking, Residential Construction and Digital Fabrication classes during the school year and offers his expertise to visitors during the summer in the Salty Sitkan workshop. Take advantage of Mike’s decade of experience making students successful in projects of all kinds by taking a class from the Salty Sitkan.

08/08/2026

It was an honor to welcome back Boy Scout troop 248 from the Tacoma area today! Fun story in my first year of business, troop 248 pushed me just past the profitable point and gave me the encouragement to keep this thing going. As a former scout of Troop 44 here in Sitka I am grateful for their Troop leader Dave Matzen and his crew for investing in this awesome group of kids! Thanks for coming back!

07/26/2026

Painting with 🔥! These guests from the Oceania Cruises did amazing work! We loved hosting you and can’t wait to see pictures of your beautiful metal art hanging on your walls!

07/24/2026

From beginners to masters these guests did great work grinding, polishing, shaping and applying a torch patina to these chunks of cold rolled Alaskan themed 18 gauge steel!

07/20/2026

We are in the endless summer phase! Had so much fun in the shop this week we almost forgot to post! Thanks to all these guests for coming in and putting their creative talents to work on some metal art. We love to see these critters in their final display spots - if you have taken a course with us this summer please share!

07/13/2026

What. A. Crew. The vibes were high with this creative, fun crew from Virgin Voyages . Sparks were flying upstairs and down. 🐳, 🦀, puffins were the choice of the day. Thanks for visiting the Salty Sitkan!

07/11/2026

I had the honor of creating a piece of Metal Art for retiring USCG Air Station Sitka Commanding Officer Rand Semke. I was approached by Rand’s wife Ivy to create something to capture Sitka and I was honored to do so. The Semke family have been guests in our shop and I had the good fortune of working with Commander Semke to introduce a work based learning internship program at the air station this year for high school students. Sitka will miss this family and I was honored to get to play a part in honoring his service today.

07/07/2026

We mostly host visitors from across the country, but every once in awhile get to host some of our favorite locals! We had a great time watching this sweet crew get salty in the shop today!

07/03/2026

What a joy to have these guests in today from the Norwegian Cruise Line making metal art! These crew brought the fun and creativity with them and walked out with some awesome pieces!

07/01/2026

Our guests from the Royal Caribbean are always up for a good time in the shop. We had makers from Massachusetts, Texas and Nebraska making family memories together and they produced some beautiful souvenirs to remember their Alaskan adventure by.

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120 Jarvis Street
Sitka, AK
99835

Website

http://www.saltysitkan.com/

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