Richard got started in woodworking as a youngster when his paternal grandmother gave him a wooden birdhouse kit to assemble – he was about 6 years old and she made the kit herself.  

There are four basic tenets to Richard’s way of woodworking today.  Each and every piece that he personally creates, designs, and constructs must be able to satisfy all of these basic founding principles which are:  form, function, figure, and finish.  

Simply put, a piece must have the correct design (form) for its intended use and/or purpose (function).  It must also have the other two higher level tenets of some type of eye-catching grain or “figure” and lastly a great finish.