Three eggs. Left: bleached fiddleback maple, walnut, ebony, holly. Center: maple burl, Honduras mahogany, ebony, Celon satinwood. Right: Yellow cedar, bubinga, boxwood.

"Robin's Egg" Center is maple burl, bleached and sprayed with transparent blue lacquer, black walnut top and bottom sections are carved to resemble a gazebo covered with morning glory vines and buds. Morning glory flower base is turned and carved acrylic. Wall thickness is 3/16", height is 12".

It seems that for the last fifty or so years, most everything I’ve done has had something to do with fitting, assembling, or finishing things made of wood or metal. From cabinet making to racing engines, fish tanks to tube steel racing chassis with hand shaped aluminum bodies; the involved project always kept my attention.

In 1982, I scaled down my race car fabricating business and began looking for ways to channel all those years of input into something interesting and creative. After seven years, several rocking chairs, jewelry boxes, and other etc., I took an interest in segmented turning. Since then, my lathe work has evolved from small lidded pots to classical and neo-classical shapes and on to my present egg shaped, carved pure art form with a little impressionism thrown in. From technical, creative, and design aspects, it’s been an interesting journey and I’m anxious to see where it’s headed.

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