Jeff
became interested in woodworking and
wood turning about 35 years ago. After moving to NC onto a wooded lot 11 years
ago, he built a 1500 square foot shop.
In completing the second floor office of the shop, he manufactured and
put down a parquet style floor made from over a dozen woods. His older son,
Jon, joined him in the woodworking business and handles the marketing and sales
and is a fine woodworker in his own right.
Both have had some
outstanding wood turner mentors over
the years including Alan Leland, Bill Wallace, Michael Thompson and Jim
Duxbury.We have concentrated in the
last few years to improve our skills with each new piece.Selling in many different venues has also led
us to realize what the purchaser of our wood pieces appreciates and how to better
our design. Recently we have started to sell on-line through EBAY, ETSY and
Facebook internet connections.
Our primary goal is to use domestic hardwoods, along with eastern red cedar, in accent
and contrasting colors to create beautiful and useful items.
Video demonstration of wood turning with Jeff Clark
Woods include exotic varieties such as
bubinga, padauk, mahogany, morado, tiger wood, purple heart, lacewood, wenge
and many others and the domestic hardwoods
such as ash, black walnut, oak, hackberry, hickory, poplar, cherry, ambrosia
maple, sweet gum and sycamore.
We
especially like to include woods that contain spalting, fine figuring, unusual
grain
characteristics or wormholes which Jon fills with stone, resin or metal inlay.
Examples of such pieces are included our website www.jncwoodworks.com and on the online sales venues.
We complete our wood works with various finishes to bring
out the best in the woods. For items
that come in contact with food, we finish with salad bowl (General Finishes) or
butcher block oil (Watco). Other pieces,
such as lamps, are finished with rub-on polyurethane. Our shaving items are finished with a sanding
sealer to help protect the wood from water.
To date, we have not used stains or dyes and let Mother Nature bring out
the beauty of the wood with enhancement from the clear finish. Pieces finished with the oils can be
maintained by periodically re-finishing the wood with the oil after either
light sanding (400 Grit) or steel wool (0000 grade) treatment. None of our woodworks should ever go through
the dishwasher. For this reason, pizza cutters,
bottle openers and ice cream scoops are constructed so that one may remove the
metal tool from the wooden handle for easy cleaning. It is recommended that food cutting be done
on the back of the cutting board to preserve the top surface. Lamps can be periodically re-finished with
rub on polyurethane after steel wool treatment.
Please do not hesitate to contact us through our
JNCWOODWORKS website to find out more about your new wood product, buy our
products or answer any other question you might have.
Both Jon and Jeff belong to the Chatham County Artist Guild, and Jeff is also on the Board and is the Treasurer for this
organization.
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