I enjoy working with my hands.  I have since I was a kid helping dad in the wood shop.  And like they say, "If you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life".  So I'm trying to earn a living doing what I love.  A large part of that is woodwork; boxes, jewelry and maybe larger pieces like desks and tables.

To support the woodwork I've also learned a bit of blacksmithing.  The primary purpose was to build hand tools that the commercial versions commonly don't work well or don't fit my hand.  I can also do some custom work at the forge, but I don't have the means to do large pieces in iron. 

I also do some other metal work such as silversmithing.  My initial interest in silversmithing was to be able to embelish my woodwork, but I have done some jewelry in silver as well.

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