Ron Brown has built over 1,000
pieces of custom furniture and many thousands of smaller “Craft” items including
folk art signs which can be found in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Japan,
Australia, England and Spain.
Teacher, Speaker, Instructor
He has personally taught more
than 300 woodworking classes including special woodworking classes for a local
college. Ron has taught numerous classes for Highland Hardware in Atlanta and
served as the keynote speaker for the Woodworkers Guild of Georgia on three
occasions.
He achieved the prestigious
title of Millwork Specialist for Home Depot.
Author
Scroll Saw Work Shop Magazine
published a five-page feature article on his pioneering methods of scroll saw
work. A second article was published in the summer of 2005 titled “KeyChain
Names” and was voted best article in a reader survey.
Television Appearances
Ted Turner’s TBS Superstation in
Atlanta, Georgia retained Ron as its “Woodworker Extraordinaire” on four
different occasions to appear on its television series “The Man Made Movie”. He
completed eight featured woodworking projects including two sets of custom old
time western Saloon Doors with louvers, the Man Made Movie Logo inlaid into the
floor of a bowling alley, a replica of the “Man Made Movie House” as a mailbox
and a custom coat rack.
Professional Tool
Demonstrator
The DeWalt Power Tool
Corporation regularly retains Ron to demonstrate their DW788 model scroll saw at
trade shows. His broad knowledge of all types of woodworking power tools is also
often utilized as a professional demonstrator for Delta and Porter Cable.
Founder, Organizer,
Administrator
Ron began what would eventually
become the Gwinnett Woodworkers Association in 1998. Membership now totals over
160. Combined with two Special Interest Groups (SIG’s) they offer 7-9 meetings
per month, a total of 108 meetings per year. They cover all topics related to
woodworking including all types of furniture plus scroll sawing, turning and
carving. They have meetings on Saturdays and more during the weekday evening
hours. These groups also participate in trade shows, parking lot tent sales,
exhibitions, county fairs, woodworking picnics and many other woodworking
demonstrations in the area.
Consultant to Industry
Ron has presented several
in-house "Power Tool Safety Seminars" for the largest wood pressure treating
testing laboratory in the USA.
“The Cool Hammer Man”
Ron’s custom Cool Hammers
(Hammers with names cut clear through the handle) also have a very impressive
customer list including U.S. President George W. Bush, Georgia Governor Sonny
Purdue, television’s The New Yankee Workshop host Norm Abram, The Wood Wright
Shop’s Roy Underhill, radio’s Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, WGST’s Kim
Peterson and, Colonel Oliver North. He has made custom baseball bats for the
Atlanta Braves Baseball players Javy Lopez and Greg Maddox.
Polychromatic Lamination
System
Ron’s latest accomplishment is
his system for making eye popping Christmas ornaments using domestic and exotic
hardwoods along with very sophisticated icicles. Using a special invisible
plugging system which allows hollowing through a 1-1/4” hole (instead of the
usual ½” opening) these hollow polychromatic works of art have a huge “WOW!
Factor” by all who see them. Ron’s ornaments can be found in the private
collections of Dale Nish, Bruce Bell and Don Russell, to name just a few.
Contact:
Ron Brown, 1341 Wellington Cove,
Lawrenceville, Ga 30043
