About Me
Name: Tom
Age: 48 (05/62)
Born: Mt. Vernon, NY.
Live: North Carolina (moved here when I was 8)
Occupation: Southeast Woodworking Specialist for Freud America
School: Machinist degree, Wake Tech Community College 1992. I feel that my machinist schooling lends itself, very well, to my woodworking.
Hobbies: Woodworking (of course) cooking, target shooting (pistol and rifle), traveling when we can.
Woodworking Awards, Recognition, & Related Items:
1) Woodsmith magazine, Featured woodworker 10/03 - Jewelry Box
2) NC State Fair - 10/03 Blue ribbon small furniture division (same jewelry box)
3) Attended American Sycamore Retreat - Learned hand-cut dovetails with master cabinet maker Frank Klausz (see picture below)
The very first wood project I built was a wooden front bumper for my 1971 Volkswagen super beetle when I was seventeen. After that I got a job installing car stereo systems. This included building speaker boxes. These boxes were made of 1/2" particle board glued and screwed on all sides, edges rounded over with a router and then carpet glued on. My tools for this were a Craftsman circular saw, router, belt sander and jigsaw. My tools now have names like Freud, Delta, Porter Cable, DeWalt, Makita, Record, Lie-Nielson and Milwaukee, My woodworking skills have grown since then. I am happy to say that I do not always look at a power tool as the answer to woodworking joinery. I really enjoy when ever I get the chance to create something with my hands. I love the look on someone's face when ever I present them with something I have made, whether it is a gift or a commission piece.
Below, me at 7 and me with Frank Klausz, and family
picture.
(click to enlarge)
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