This garden belonged to John Fawell who passed away the winter of 1994/1995. He was very proud of his garden which contained hardy and tender perennial beds, ornamental and fruit trees, different species hedges, bulbs, hanging baskets, planters, rockery, climbing vines, flowering shrubs, raspberry canes, turf grass, and annuals. I was fortunate to have him teach me how to take care of his garden from fall of '87 till spring '95. Rest in peace. 

This tree lives in the Japanese Garden at Park and Tilford. It has been there ever since the gardens were established. Its common name is a Japanese Cutleaf Maple but is more properly identified by its botanical name Acer palmatum 'Dissectum Atropurpureum'. This tree is over 80 years old. It was brought over from Vancouver's sister city in Japan as a gift. This tree has about 50 hours spent pruning it per year. If it were not pruned so much it would be over 50 feet tall by now.

These red Japanese bridge railings I made the summer I worked at Park and Tilford gardens. They are 17' long. They are made up of 14 layers of 3/8" plywood laminated together then wrapped in fiberglass and painted to match the "Tea House" railings. The ends of the railings are flared an extra 2" to imitate traditional Japanese garden bridge railings.

I developed this carbon-fiber/epoxy snowboard binding for Invasion snowboards as a development project for BCIT.  The binding consists of three parts: a base plate, a high back and a disk.  There is a different base plate for the right and left feet.  They are wet layed-up over a plug mold then a glove mold is placed over top and the reinforcement materials squeezed to release access epoxy.

These are one set of molds I used to make the base plate of the snowboard binding pictured above.

This aluminum sword and aluminum battle-axe were made for Halloween costumes.  The hatchet I made as I learned to arc-weld one summer in Fort Nelson.

Here are some woodwork items I have made.  A Piggy bank and picture frame I made in grade 8, an adz I made in my grandfather's workshop in high school, and an adjustable scribe. 

These are skill building metalwork projects I did at BCIT.  The items are a ring mandrel with stand, a machinist's clamp, a steel scribe, a machinist's jack, and a large screw to practice threading on a lathe.

Here are two more projects I did at BCIT.  One is an electronics power supply which has a 110 V AC input and a variable 0.1 V-24.0 V DC output.  The power supply can also work as a 0.1 DC voltmeter.  The second project is a headset for a costume inspired by the "Borg" characters from the T.V. series "Star Trek." It incorporates several plastics including polythene, ABS, acrylic, nylon, rubber, vinyl, and hot glue.

This is a wall-mounted stage/display.  It has two hidden black light tubes in each side which illuminate what's "on stage".  The backdrop for the stage is a piece of glass which has white light tubes shining into its edges so that when etched, the "scratches" will be emphasized.  The black lights are on a different circuit than the backdrop so that they can be on at different times.  The final finish of the "structure" is a speckled spray-on paint which has a worn metallic look.

Here are two wake-boards I made at home, they have been tested and I still use them during the summer on Shuswap Lake .  They consist of a high-density foam core wrapped in fiberglass.  They also have stainless steel threaded inserts imbedded in polyethylene plates inside the foam core for binding retention. 

This is a hydraulics/robotics working model I made with some classmates at BCIT.  Syringes pump water to and from other syringes to make the parts move. 

This "treasure chest" is a woodwork project I made at BCIT. It is made of black walnut and maple. It also has an aromatic cedar interior bottom.  It has a brass handle on each end, brass hinges for the lid and a brass latch.

I made this beautiful belt buckle in Fort Nelson when I was working for Westcoast Energy. It is made of different sized stainless steel tubes welded together then cut on an angle to form the double parabolic shape.

I made this TTED symbol of a flaming hoop out of peutre as a cuttlefish bone casting activity at UBC.

These are a few of the 25 snowboards I manufactured in my basement the year I took off school.  I called them basement snowboards since my workshop is conveniently in the basement of my parents' house. I made the entire board from wood core to base graphics. I even made my own presses, jigs, and templates.

These are the bases of the boards above.

This is a stabile that I made for a class activity at UBC.