I have been a wood worker for most all of my life, when I was a little boy I remember getting a little yellow handled pocket knife from my Dad. I started whittling little things and have continued to love wood.

As time went on I worked my way into larger projects and better tools. Along the way I took shop classes and was introduced to the wood lathe. Those first little projects in the late 1970's got me hooked on the lathe.

After I graduated from high school I joined the National Gaurd, then went into the active Army for 4 years. While I was in the military I bought a Shopsmith that Iused for many years. Again I had a lathe, but never used it much as I was to busy with the Army and doing mostly flat work.

The years past by and my Dad and I opened a small wood working shop and we kept busy building cabnets, display cases, recipe boxes, cutting boards and repairing furniture when called upon to do so. One day my Dad came to the shop with a generic cast iron lathe made in China and again I rekindled the love for wood turning!

I still have that old lathe but have added a VFD and a 1hp 3 phase motor so it now has infinite variable speed. I use it for turning tool handles and smaller spindles and lots and lots of ornaments! I did upgrade to a Powermatic 3520B about 4 years ago and that has been a wonderful large machine to turn anything I can put on it! Last year I bought the new Delta 46-460 12" lathe for demos and for its versatility as a midi lathe.

Who knows what is next for the "Woodennicol" only time will tell.

Seeing the happy, smiling faces of customers and those who recieve my turnings as gifts or for charity events!

More atistic interpretation and embellinhments and carving on some of the finished pieces.