Flashback to 1980

A newborn craftsman gets hooked by a Miami mall show.

See the potential!

I was first bitten by the “show” bug back in 1980, when my aunt Judy, who free-hand routed redwood signs and painted Cypress clocks, needed a flunky to heft and tote. By then, I had been working for her on and off for 2 years, cutting blank patterns for her signs and preparing and pouring [resin] on the Cypress wood slabs, on which she…