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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.