Jim Parker is the retired financial officer for a medium size company headquartered in central Virginia. His corporate career spanned over 4 decades. Throughout his life, he has enjoyed all forms of woodworking projects – building decks, sheds, boat docks and furniture. Initially after retirement, he worked out of his shop in North Carolina – making Adirondack style furniture and small wooden gifts for friends, including wooden bowls. He also apprenticed with a local fine furniture workshop to learn techniques and processes relating to the building and finishing of custom fine furniture.

 

Currently, he creates unique turned wooden, wood/resin bowls, pepper mills and custom woodworking pieces in his shops in Northside Richmond VA and Littleton NC.