Who am I? I'm not a professionally trained craftsman or artist, what I know and the skills I have are self taught. I'm just a person who loves to work with his hands and with wood and metal and computers and anything else I can get my hands on.  Someone who loves to figure things out. I constantly research for new ideas when I already have more ideas and projects than I can possibly complete in a life time. I enjoy creating beautiful things in wood and metal and other medias and if someone likes my work then that makes it all worth wild.Taking a design idea and turning it into a finished piece is a journey with a beginning and a end.  First the idea hits you. Then you write it down, sketch it out and work on it until you think you have exactly what you want.  Then you start to create it with the knowledge and skills you have knowing full well that the finished product will not look like the drawing you finally decided on, your hoping for what you see in your head.  It's a constant changing, seeing a new angle, changing again, seeing a new finish, changing it again, backing up and redoing it a little here and there, changing it again, finding a nicer grain of wood and either changing it again or starting over from scratch, learning a new technique and changing again.  Finally after countless redos  changes and afterthoughts you end up with a completed piece. You stand back, look at it a little, take a picture or two and say to yourself.   Did I achieve what I intended?  Does it look like what I saw in my head? If I did it over, what would I change. Then I realize, whether I like what I see or I don't, I know the journey I took to make it was a great ride and a lot of fun, and that is the best and most important part of it all. So I offer it up and if someone else likes it enough to purchase it, then that makes the trip that much better and affords me to make additional trips.  Then there are times when you like a piece so much you can't sell it and you end up giving it away to someone dear to you.  In looking back, I have had a lot of those.  I hope you like what you see of my work.  Each piece was a terrific journey for me and I hope it brings you just a fraction of the joy it brought me.