I’m going to take a little road trip down to Columbia, SC on February 6th to Mann Tool & Supply for a demonstration with the Palmetto Woodturners Club.  I’ll be demonstrating turning a teapot and looking forward to meeting some new turners. See ya’ll there at 9:00 AM ready to go.

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This past weekend I met with Carla Garrison of Green Rice Gallery in the NoDa section of Charlotte, NC.  She accepted eleven pieces including two new teapots.  Green Rice will have a new artist’s opening on Friday, February 6th featuring “Art of Foreign Lands” by artist Matt Hooker.  My work will also be displayed and [...]

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2008 has been a good year for me and my art and I appreciate everyone’s help and support.  Here are just a few things that I’m thankful for this year.  In February, I was featured on a local television show called Face to Face with Andrea Sebastayn.  I appreciate Andrea’s help and allowing me to [...]

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I had to take an overnight trip to the Big Apple today and when I got finished with work I decided I’d swing by the Museum of Art & Design.  I’ve been to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on the past couple of trips and came back thoroughly inspired.  MAD was no different but [...]

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You may notice the new graph to the right.  My father has been going to Honduras in support of a Baptist mission for five years.  His goal has been to provide an activity for the men of the community to bring them to the church.  He’s done this through teaching  woodturning and wood working as [...]

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This is the latest in my teapot series.  I started this at the Charlotte Woodturner’s club during a demonstration on April 17th and finally finished it this past week.  The main body and finial is cherry and the feet and cube is blackwood.  The handle was pieced and carved to be part of the body [...]

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To get the piece out of his truck that is.  This is Anatoly Tsiris’ latest piece that he brought to the Charlotte Woodturner’s club meeting.  It stands a little more than 6′ tall and weighs in at a little more than 100 lbs. This is what you can do with a custom Nichols lathe. He [...]

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Last night I did the demonstration for the Charlotte Woodturner’s club. It was the fourth demo I’ve done for the club. John Benton, the club president, asked me a couple of weeks ago if I would be interested since we didn’t have anyone on the schedule and I said yes. I had a couple of [...]

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It’s always interesting to look at the statistics generated by the logs of this blog. What I don’t understand is in an overview of where people are coming from, why is there a holdout of New Mexico woodturners visiting? I realize that a large majority of New Mexico is arid and treeless but I’ve hiked [...]

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