Bio
Before retiring from my faculty position at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 2019, I was a Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology. By 2002, my wife and I had a woodworking shop in our basement that included a planer, jointer, table saw, bandsaw, drill press and router table, which we used for outdoor carpentry projects in the summer and home furniture projects during the winter. Inspired by photographs of modern woodturning in Fine Woodworking magazine, I had decided to add a lathe to our shop. Since I did not know how to use a lathe, I took a 10-session, 3 hour per session beginning woodturning class at the Worcester Center for Crafts. After completing the class I bought a small lathe, a nice set of turning tools and I joined the Central New England Woodturners chapter of the AAW. Several years later, my wife bought me the newly published Dale Nish-Ray Allen Segmented Woodturning book, and we purchased Malcomb Tibbetts book when it was published a years later. The few segmented bowls we made per year typically had 12-18 segments due to the difficulty of assembling rings. I was first exposed to the concept of tangential segments rather than radial segments, in segmented woodturning by a 2008 demonstration by Will Hunt, a member of the Central New England Woodturners. Will made bowl that had 8 tangential segments per ring with 4-8 spacer strips. While I was eager to incorporate tangential segments into segmented bowls, I did not try this until I had more time for woodturning when I retired.
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