About ...
About Max: Max
retired after 25 years of service with the U.S. Navy in
December 2006. Ignoring his multiple degrees
(MS-University of Wisconsin-Madison and MBA University of
Rochester) he was eager to pursue his love for fine
woodworking and take on a challenge that he thought
might have potential to become a small business. He married
his unquenchable appetite for fine woodwork and his lifelong
attraction to all things mechanical to launch Hardwood Clocks.
He has no formal clock training, only a fascination and passion
for wooden clocks that began when he visited a museum store at
Cape Cod in 1982. That is
where he first saw a
six-foot skeleton clock constructed entirely of American Walnut.
The impression that this one-of-a-kind work of art made on
him was so lasting that he decided to dedicate his first post-navy career woodworking project to designing his own version
of that beautiful clock, albeit 25 years after the fact! It
took the better part of six months to design his first
working, all-wood clock, from the ground up. He has since
perfected an all-wood gear drive train and is now dedicated
to improving the aesthetics of his numerous designs.