About me
I've been a woodworker practically my entire life. More precisely I should say I've been around woodworking practically my entire life. My dad was a patternmaker who owned his own business and my first job at about age 12 was to clean the shop. Sawdust is in my blood. Well, not really, but I've certainly had enough in my hair, eyes, nose, throat... even in my lunch. "That's fiber... It's good for you!"
After all the years of precision plans and meticulous attention to dimensions the "do it by eye" freedom of woodturning is an exhilarating change of pace. I never know what magic shapes, patterns and textures lie undiscovered inside that next piece of lumber.
When building furniture a piece cut too short goes back into the scrap bin. In woodturning that becomes a "design opportunity." Only when that doesn't work out does it become "designer firewood."
I have achieved Master Artisan status in the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and am a member of the Lancaster Designer Craftsmen chapter. I am a member of the Lancaster Area Woodturners chapter of the American Association of Woodturners.
In the fall of '16 I was fortunate to be able to retire from my "real" job as a Database Administrator and software designer for our local county government, allowing me to spend much more time in the wood shop.
When I'm not in the shop or riding my bike on rail trails I am sometimes found doing lead guitar and vocals for the Kracker Beez, a local classic rock band.
I've been a woodworker practically my entire life. More precisely I should say I've been around woodworking practically my entire life. My dad was a patternmaker who owned his own business and my first job at about age 12 was to clean the shop. Sawdust is in my blood. Well, not really, but I've certainly had enough in my hair, eyes, nose, throat... even in my lunch. "That's fiber... It's good for you!"
After all the years of precision plans and meticulous attention to dimensions the "do it by eye" freedom of woodturning is an exhilarating change of pace. I never know what magic shapes, patterns and textures lie undiscovered inside that next piece of lumber.
When building furniture a piece cut too short goes back into the scrap bin. In woodturning that becomes a "design opportunity." Only when that doesn't work out does it become "designer firewood."
I have achieved Master Artisan status in the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and am a member of the Lancaster Designer Craftsmen chapter. I am a member of the Lancaster Area Woodturners chapter of the American Association of Woodturners.
In the fall of '16 I was fortunate to be able to retire from my "real" job as a Database Administrator and software designer for our local county government, allowing me to spend much more time in the wood shop.
When I'm not in the shop or riding my bike on rail trails I am sometimes found doing lead guitar and vocals for the Kracker Beez, a local classic rock band.
