One of my larger projects was working as one of the chief designers of the new East Kingdom gates for Pennsic.   A group of us worked together for many months laboring to put together the new gates to replace the older and far heavier ones.

My first carving project was a single sided sign with a fairly deep relief carving of a sword and pretzel for the Battlefield Bakery.  The Bakery was a wonderful place to get pasties, and cookies at the Pennsic War. 

I cheated on the salt crystals, and carved the pretzeld smooth, dilled holes and inserted small round toothpicks and the sanded them off just above the surface.

The H.E.S. Reverance, occured when Catrin O’rhyd For turned to me one day and said, “Have you ever thought about building a boat?” It seemed that she was planning a mumming that called for Hope and Desire to ride in on a boat that would be viewed in the round. In order to build it and get it out of the basement, that I was building it in, it was necessary to build it in two pieces, and bolt it together once out of the basement. In addition I learned that it had to move through a door that was several feet shorter than the masts. This was solved by rigging the masts, as for a ship in a bottle.  There is a rope running from each mast to a pulley in the bowsprit that when pulled, will lift all three masts up off of the stern to a full upright position, where they will stay due to friction.