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A Little About Me

          My wife Donna and I maintain our modest home in Pueblo West, Colorado where I have a small woodworking shop. My grandfather, Sida O. Miller, was a long time carpenter, cabinetmaker, furniture builder and woodturner. My father, Forrest Miller, certainly acquired his father's abilities to work with wood and made a living for his family by it for many years.
                I am retired after a 34-year career in Manufacturing Machining & Instructing and am looking forward to pursuing many other interests including my woodworking, which I learned from my father and grandfather. I learned several skills as a machinist but I am especially thankful that my initial training and time spent working was on the manually operated machines though later using automatic CNC machines. As a young 4H-club member, I learned and built various wood projects, which earned me several awards and ultimately championships in wood working at the State Fair. I built many pieces of furniture for my family through the years. I supplemented my regular income by doing remodeling work on homes and building and reconditioning furniture for many years.
                Recently though I am enjoying a renewed interest in woodturning, which I only previously tinkered at once in a great while. I joined a local organization of the AAW (American Association of Woodturners), of which I am currently the club President. I inherited my grandfather’s old Craftsman bench-top lathe, which I reconditioned and made use of frequently in order to learn more of this fantastic "wood art form". It wasn't long before a JetVS mini lathe and then a much larger Jet 1642VS, reversible lathe, replaced the old Craftsman lathe.
                I may have grown up in a family of woodworkers but woodturning was not a very strong part of the environment and it was just recently that I learned that this craft was actually enjoyed by such a large community. I discovered that there were actually schools where one could attend and learn to be skilled craftsmen and women! I do not fully regret that I missed out on this world of beautiful woods and schools of learning, but believe I learned so much in the field of machining to be able to transfer my talents into this great new world of woodturning now in my retirement.

Please visit my original web site, ArtsByDan, where you will see my art paintings that I had been creating for the past several years. This was another latent ability, which I developed and now enjoy in retirement. I hope to somehow meld my painting techniques with woodturning.
                I hope that everyone who browses through this site will find something that interests them. I currently have some of my woodturnings for sale through and you can view them in my "wood-art gallery".

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