It all starts with an idea. 

For more then a decade, my initial and singular goal has been to create a well made, handcrafted product.  Through the years I have been able to combine my engineering experience with my artisan approach to the items I craft. I firmly believe that my high standards have been a bit easier to achieve because I do work alone.  I have no apprentice and employ no outside help, from beginning to end, I do it all. 

I'm not very fond of talking about myself simply because I prefer to show my caliber of work through actions not words. To make a long story short, when I was a teenager I was a road cyclist on the US National Cycling Team, I lived at the Olympic Training Center on Colorado Springs, during those years, I raced against the best in the world. I was a category1 senior racer on the road & track. It was from that experience that helped mold me into the type of person I am today. I believe in working smart, paying attention to detail, not cutting corners, and careful preparation is vital to achieving success. My parents also instilled into me several very important life lesson; one of them was in the form of a simple question: if I knew how to count?  ( in Polish: Umiesz Liczyc? ..I speak fluent Polish btw)...the answer is simple: you better count on yourself because no one else will. I live my life by a very simple yet powerful saying: to do ordinary things in very extraordinary ways!

By the way, I still ride...for fun, I should have about 5000 miles ridden by the end of the year.

After the cycling ended due to injury, I continued with my education which included mechanical engineering and an MBA degree thrown in for good measure. I worked for a number of different industries, everything from pierogi & pizza making equipment to hi-tech vision and motion control equipment, I even worked in HVAC R&D and was instrumental in designing several medical devices (confidentiality agreement prevents me from elaborating further on those devises).

Some of you have asked what experience I have in the product development cycle since I offer the ability to fabricate custom designs in the work I do. Honestly, it is not that easy...you need to have a good grasp of wood working, metal working, polishing, finishing, inlay work, interpreting design intent all while maintaining 3 very important variables:

• It must last
• It must be well balanced
• It must be functionally beautiful

Just like cycling, the engineering work I have done thus far has lent a hand in what I am capable of today. Mind you, it is a never ending process, there are always newer techniques, different exotic materials, different client requested applications...the list goes on and on! This is exactly what I like: the challenge! Anything less and I would close up my shop and eat Doritos while watching Wheel of Fortune.

As for my list of accomplishments, I have several US patents and a few other foreign patents in new product development (some of which I achieved before I was 30), so in a way I can confidently state that I know what I am doing when I create your next masterpiece. For the record, there was no collaboration on these projects, funds were limited, deadlines were tight, I was the sole project engineer. 

Patent number: 6032561 & 6070509 was for an ultrasonic food cutting machine when I worked for Colborne Corp. Forget waterjet cutting, too much cross contamination potential, ultrasonics eliminates those pitfalls.

Patent number: 6668574 was for a Kwik-Charger refrigiration manifold for Emperial Tool. This concept was a complicated mess: how do you change freon from a vapor to a liquid state within a small manifold? The solution was brilliantly simple.

I also was credited by changing the look of their existing brass manifolds. You could say I took their design out of the dark ages and into the 21 century. It has to look good, function and be reliable in the field. Exactly what I did.

Another product that you probably see on a daily basis is a pan and tilt mechanism. These are used on all the major news vehicles around the world as well as imaging and communications monitoring for private, marine, aerospace, and military applications. The challenge I had was to take an existing pan and tilt and make it better, more reliable, and cost effective from a manufacturing standpoint. The QPT 20 (Quick Pan and Tilt) actually uses less parts then it's predecessor. When I was with Quickset this is what I developed to accept a variety of payloads:

These are just but a few of the hundreds of products I have worked on. At the end of the day I apply many years of engineering know-how to create a product just for you. I take great pride in what I do and that is evident when you experience the caliber of my work.

Actions not words tell my story.