What started as a desire to make furniture turned into a love of turning and the creating of unique wooden vessels. I like to focus on the shape, color and design of the vessel. The primary technique used is called "segmented" turning. This is a process of precisely cutting and assembling small pieces of wood and turning them to a final shape. The use of this technique allows me tremendous flexibility in designing shapes that would be extremely difficult or impossible to create from solid wood. I also obviously enjoy using colors normally associated with blown Wood and not wood.