One day, while my wife and I were running the weekend errands, I saw a sign advertising a wood carving class. Like most people, I didn’t believe that I had any artistic talent but decided “What the heck, I’ll take one class.” That was in 1995 and I’m still as excited about carving as the day I bought my first tools and put them to wood.

In my early carving days, I registered for all the local classes and traveled out-of-state to take advantage of instruction by nationally known carvers.  Each class gave me a wealth of information and a good wood carving foundation.   I now enjoy designing my own carvings and have been teaching for the past ten years.