Throughout my life and careers (first as a luthier and then as a high school wood work teacher) I have worked with a variety of exotic materials: gold, silver, bronze, legal trade antique ivory, baleen, bone and abalone. However, it was at the age of 13 that I discovered my true love was working with wood. I spent the next 43 years of my life acquiring the skills and knowledge I needed to create the things that once only existed in my dreams.