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Kirk and Connie
Kelsey,
Kelsey
Woodworks
, Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Kelsey
WoodWorks is a husband and wife team, each with over 28 years of
extensive engineering and woodworking design experience. We started our
own studio furniture shop about 20 years ago.
Kirk is a
Mechanical Engineer, with 8 years experience at Puget Sound Naval
Shipyard, who spent many years working as a lead engineer. After
spearheading the effort to acquire and install CAD workstations at the
shipyard, Kirk secured a position with one the Northwest's leading
Architectural and Engineering firms working to support their CAD system.
While in Seattle, Kirk started designing and producing furniture in their
basement shop, and thus Kelsey WoodWorks was born.
Connie is an
Engineering Technician with 15 years design experience for the Puget
Sound Naval Shipyard. Upon moving to the Oregon Coast, she spent a few
years teaching AutoCAD drafting at the local Community College and doing
independent CAD consulting.
Connie then worked 5 years for McRae and Sons, a woodworking specialty
manufacturer, doing CAD design, CNC program development, and component
manufacturing. After Paint Brush handle manufacturing went overseas, she
has spent the last few years doing independent CAD design work using Alibre Design and MasterCAM.
"The day our
grandchildren moved in, they were given safety glasses and their own
toolbox, and have now becoming skilled woodworkers themselves. They are
doing their own design work using Alibre's Xpress software."
Now located
on the scenic Oregon Coast, Kelsey WoodWorks has a new custom furniture
studio, and dedicated office space for our design workstations. We now
specialize in woodworking design for ourselves and other woodworkers,
using Alibre Design parametric solid modeling software along with our
design and manufacturing expertise.
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