Art has worked in wood for over 20 years and has specialized in custom furniture and fine wooden boxes. He has taken coursework at the internationally reknowned Penland School School of Crafts in North Carolina where he received training from some of America's premier woodworkers.

Art also is an avid wine enthusiast whose non-commercial website - Strat's Place
( http://www.stratsplace.com ) is now one of the largest, non-commercial wine information websites on the Internet with over 2 million hits per month.

Jack started woodworking 30 years ago, making craft pieces for family and friends. This hobby soon developed into a part-time business designing and building handcrafted furniture and cabinets.

For 12 years, as the facilities manager of a local college, he was involved in all types of renovation, restoration and new construction. One of the campus buildings, "Old Main", predated the civil war and was built using techniques of joinery and materials that are seldom seen in modern construction. To maintain this building required that he and his crew hand-make many decorative and structural pieces to match those on the original structure. "Old Main", developed in Jack an appreciation for the skills and craftsmanship of its 19th century builders.

In 1999, Jack retired from the college to open his own shop and pursue his love of woodworking full time.