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My shop is located on a quiet rural setting in Minnesota, just 35 miles North of Minneapolis/St.Paul. My goal is to provide a relaxed learning environment where you can have fun, make new friends, develop new skills. I believe that the best way to develop your skills as a woodworker is to immerse yourself in the craft with skilled people to guide you along the way. I have worked as a house carpenter and in millwork and fixture shops, run my own cabinet and furniture shop, and worked as a restoration furniture maker on 18th century American furniture. I am the chapter secretary for The Minnesota Chapter of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers and a member of the Minnesota Woodworkers Guild.

Techniques that I use making arts and crafts reproductions and some thoughts on the style itself.

A diary about making stringed musical instruments

A blog about hand tools

A gallery of handmade woodworking tools

I’m an armature woodworker, with a growing interest in hand tools.

I have been specializing in seventeenth-century reproduction furniture for about 20 years. My work follows techniques and methods from the period, all work is done exclusively with hand-tools.

.....witterings from the workshop and other unrelated stuff

Canadian hand tool woodworker.