My wife bought and old craftsman lather at a yard sale thinking I might enjoy it. One of my first friends introduced me to woodturning, gave me lesson, a few tools and took me to a Strait Turners meeting. I built a small woodshop for a growing collection of tools. Equipped with a new lathe I have turned hundreds of bowls and assorted other lathe projects.

I got involved with the organization and eventually became the president of the club from 20018-2019. Woodturning for me is a serious hobby. I learned through watching demonstrations and taking numerous woodturning classes through the club and at Arrowmont Arts and Crafts School in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. My wife and I moved to Port Townsend in 2019 and I joined the Strait Turners. I am now the Vice President and Program Director of this club. It is my intention to organize interesting demonstrations for members, as well as schedule small group shop sessions and ’sawdust’ sessions where members are able to observe several demos simultaneously.

I have a large shop for furniture building. I started wood turning in 2019 studying with Yakima native John Barany. I am new to the Sequim and Peninsula area. I joined the Strait Turner club so I could meet like minded people, promote the hobby and improve my skills. I look forward to serving as club secretary.

I am a retired accountant for banks, a receptionist/accountant for a gas company, I worked for an accounting firm doing simple Income Tax preparations/monthly accounting for clients and an accountant at First Federal Bank for almost 30 years.

I did not pick up wood turning until a few years ago, when I took a class in Seattle. After moving to the Peninsula, I found Strait Turners, and have been fortunate to be mentored by two amazing women in the club. I still consider myself a beginner – I just bought my first lathe and am quickly collecting tools and wood.

I currently live in Port Townsend with my cat Natasha, where I teach crochet classes at the local yarn shop and volunteer with the Main Street Association.

I married my current and only wife in 1974 and we have two grown sons.

I was a network engineer and then worked for 23 years at The Boeing Company as a System engineer

Worked doing “System Design and Integration” – whatever that is

Retired in 2014 and moved to Sequim in 2016. Worked doing “System Design and Integration” – whatever

Served on Strait Turners Board

• Member of at Large
• Vice-President
• President (2 years)
• Previous Past President

I am a Ham radio licensee – WA7HDY

Presently my wife, Penny, and I chair the Food4Kids program in Kingston; last year we delivered over 12,000 generous and nourishing meals to food deficient kids in the Kingston area.

I love the feel, smell and appearance of wood. Woodturning occupies a large part of my time that is not tied up in other matters. I am still a pretty basic turner on a constant endeavor to see what I can find inside of the piece of wood that comes into my attention. I usually look for bowls and unique spindle turned items. I hope to get into resins and start learning how to make hollow figures.

My goal for Strait Turners is to infuse a growing training program that considers beginners through expert turners, in a socially enjoyable atmosphere. A key aspect of this is to attract more members and hopefully some new members with of a younger age than many of us.

Moved around quite a bit as an adult. Did many different things to keep body and soul intact.( be kind ). Became interested in art at a later age. Attended college and ended up working for the art department. I am a painter, fabric arts, will try most everything person, so when my daughter became a turner I became interested as well. Love being around people. Photo is at F.O.T. Gala, yes I do trees as well.

I consider myself a production woodturner. I believe I bring to the club years of life experience and truly enjoy everything about woodturning. I would love to have more youth in the club and the energy that they bring. I am a combat veteran of the war in Vietnam and proudly served in the U.S. Coast Guard.