I am a father of a three-year-old daughter, Naomi and husband to Jamie. We are a proud, multicultural household in Farmington Hills, MI. My dad is a carpenter and handyman extraordinaire who had a dream of restoring mining houses in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, where I am from. I frequented his woodshop and learned how to woodwork at age 10. In college, I used my woodworking and engineering skills to build an electric guitar and a set of high fidelity speakers. Today, I have acquired a powerful woodworking shop and tool collection in my backyard barn. I can not wait to pass down my passion for woodworking to my daughter as my father did for me.
Family, function, tradition, and sometimes modern technology all serve as inspiration for my woodworking designs. If it were not for my father teaching me how to use his tools, I wouldn’t have learned how satisfying it is to make a long shaving with a traditional sharp hand plane. Now that I have my woodshop, I have discovered my preferences. I love to build functional pieces of wooden art that look beautiful and serve a long-lasting purpose. In addition, I love to make furniture that embodies more than one function. My educational background is in audio technology, so I constructed a TV stand that features an integrated high-fidelity sound system. This marriage of form and function really excites me about the future projects that may enter my woodshop.
If you can dream it, I can make it a reality.
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