After 25 years as a welder, Dave now uses his metalworking skills full time in creating metal art.

Dave always dreamed of having his own welding shop, he wanted to have his own plasma-cutting table and he wanted a "great big" enclosed sandblaster.  But he would continue working in industrial shops, operating a cutting table, building overhead cranes, driving truck or modifying the trucks to make the job easier - but he kept on dreaming of his own business.  He would occasionally create art pieces, his friends would buy them and encourage him to make more art.  Now he's whistling every day while working in his own shop.

New product ideas often develop amid laughs and jokes over the dinner table with family and friends.  Dave will mention an idea, Elaine will make a suggestion or someone else will say "Would you make...?"  Dave, his wife Elaine, her niece Rachel and other family members hand-draw the original designs.  Dave then puts his heart and soul into creating the pieces, always interested in pleasing his family and future customers, too! 

Dave, a native of Columbus, Ohio, and his wife, Elaine, born in West Virginia (raised on a dairy farm in rural eastern Ohio) now make their home in Rochester, New York.  While they live in the suburbs, their heart is in the hills - the Adirondacks, the Blue Ridge Mountains and the hill country of Appalachia.  - Thus their first art pieces bring the warmth and coziness of rural life and the wilderness into the home.  

When Dave and Elaine pause from their new metal art business, they are busy in community volunteer work or off on 2,000-mile journeys on their Honda GoldWing. Other times you'll find them busy at flower gardening or relaxing with their Himalayan cat, Trouble.