East Canal Creek Fabrication and Design is the culmination of my many years of experience as a metal fabricator and designer. 

 I first became interested in design after a trip to New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Design museum while studying history at the University of Texas at Austin in the early 1990's. To that end, while finishing my history degree I enrolled in the Art Metals courses at the Austin Community College where I welded my first bead with an oxy/acetylene torch. After graduating I decided to pursue a design career and moved to Brooklyn and finished a Master's in Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute. Upon graduation I naturally drifted back into metal fabrication. 

After working at a succession of metal fabrication and design firms in Brooklyn, Oakland and Switzerland, my German wife Nina and I settled in Waldport, Oregon in 2016. After several years of running a German food cart with Nina and doing general construction I felt the urge to pick up the torch once again and set up my shop in 2021. 

While I enjoy the challenge and satisfaction of helping a client realize a design vision, I am also a happy member of the greater community and consider no job too small; I'd be glad to weld up your boat trailer or tractor part. 

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