With over forty years experience as a professional woodworker, artist and musician I have never viewed any of these activities as a hobby.

 I started woodturning in my father’s shop at age thirteen, while still in high school, worked full time in the summer finishing and repairing wooden boats where I learned  woodworking skills and

fine finishing. I attended Columbus College of Art and

Design and continued private study of drawing and painting with local artist Andrew Sanders which has given me a keen sense of design, proportion and color.

 I learned sign painting and started my own business before taking

a job  building  pipe organs where I spent three years  learning cabinet making  and construction of  mechanical action  tracker organs. At the pipe organ company, I was apprenticed to  skilled craftsmen  who taught me the mechanics of woodworking. In my next job, I was a pattern  maker at a one hundred year old wooden chair factory advancing to shop foreman  of  assembly  and eventually  to overseer of all operations which included drying and steam bending  of lumber, all aspects of  machining, machine design and product development.. Then I opened my own wood working business,“Universal  Woodworks”, where I have been self employed for over twenty years.