While ​working in Australia in 2000, I took a weekend course in wood turning with a friend.  That was all it took; I was hooked.  For the first few years I mostly made pencil holders and experimented while I learned what not to do.  However, there was a excursion into crafting  Harry Potter wands for my kids.  Imagine my disappointment when in the movies wands were not lovely turned objects but twigs. ​

    

When my supply of woodturned objects was exceeding the shelf space in the living room, my wife gave me a choice - stop doing woodturning or start moving it out.  So Rotational Matters was born in 2019.

 

Now I mostly make small bowls and spindle based implements like dibbers (planting sticks), muddlers (for mixing drinks) and spurtles (stir sticks) in my small workshop in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. 

    

I love how with turning you can take a hunk of old wood, that furniture builders would reject, and create beautiful (and useful) objects.