Page 2 - Biography


I graduated from Hollywood High School in 1957 and promptly moved to Catalina Island where I operated a boat overhauling moorings and commercial fished.  After losing my lobster boat on the back side of Catalina, I decided this wasn't happening and ended up at USC studying marine biology and doing research on marine animals in Antarctica.  The USC (National Science Foundation) sent me to collect for them for four months.

After returning to the U.S. I got married and explored a number of different jobs.  My last job in America was as a fireman in Huntington Beach, California.  After being injured and no longer able to do the job (with no disability in those days), we decided to go west!

In 1970 we went as far west as one can go in the U.S. without being cold; Kauai, the Garden Island. Then after living there for 20 years,traffic went nuts, lines got longer and I bailed out to Old Hawaii, Molokai in 1990.

I've spent over 45 years bouncing from one job to another; commercial fisherman, operating engineer, real estate broker, carpenter, restaurant manager, charter boat captain and many more. An old friend, Danny Derohan, one of the woodturners on Kauai came over to Molokai to help me cut some milo and koa trees and "turned me on" to woodturning. Since then that's about all I do and I love every minute of it! Except when I blow one of the translucent Norfolk pine bowls, as they all don't make it!.

I do live in "paradise" now as paradise for woodturners is when you live where there's more exotic wood than you can turn in a lifetime!!!!

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Milo Platter



Norfolk Pine Bowl


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Norfolk Pine Lamp