WORKSHOPMAKIN’ MAN
Ross Shafer is a busy man. When he’s not working in his machine shop, he’s working in his woodshop. When he’s not woodworking, he’s practicing guitar or playing in his band, South Bend (named after a machine in his shop). Or he’s riding one of his bicycles (that he made), or riding his Ducati through the winding roads of Sonoma County in northern California. Or taking his Ducati apart to replace the lifters. Or refurbishing old amplifiers and old guitars. Or taking metal scraps and making birdbaths, candlesticks, and nightstands for his wife.
“I’m always making something,” he says. “I’d rather make something that I need than buy it. If I don’t know how to make it, then I learn how.”
Right now, he’s just finished a steel staircase ...
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