Due to the political unrest in Honduras our mission trip was postponed.  We were  supposed to leave on the 17th and fly into the capital, Tegucigalpa, but since they won’t let Zelaya land I doubt they’ll be interested in me touching down either. I’m a little torn at the moment on how I feel about [...]

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This past Tuesday at 11:30 I was laid off from a job I had stuck with for 6 years 3 months.  Needless to say, it was a shock to the system and I’ve been a little anxious for the past few days about getting my resume out to my network.  Luckily between all my friends, [...]

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I don’t care who you vote for (I do but this isn’t a political blog), I just want you to go stand in line like I did this morning and cast your vote.  The world will be a better place for it and you get a cool sticker and everything.

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It’s got a great personality, but it ain’t that pretty.  My latest guitar sounds great and has a lot of volume compared to my last but I’m not as fond of the tear drop shape as I am the round bowl. To get the shape I turned a hollow vessel then cut it in half [...]

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I was in New York this week and I ran across a store, maybe you could even call it a gallery, that had everything from glass to bandsaw boxes to woodturnings plus a lot more artistic craft style items.  It’s at the corner of 52nd and 7th right across the street from Rosie O’Gradys Saloon [...]

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“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein ——- I can definitively say that if clutter, discord, and difficulty is where you should start looking for simplicity, harmony, and opportunity then you should start looking for it in my studio.  I’ve [...]

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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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