About Mr. Spinozzi

I did not grow up in the trades. Nobody handed me a hammer. What I had, in my senior year of high school, was an idea and some curiosity. I bought a few second-hand tools and some cheap boards from the local home improvement store and tried to build a key holder. It was not pretty. It held keys. I was hooked.

I was not very good for a long time. Confidence came one project at a time: measure, cut, miss, measure again. Years later the skills were there, and I understood that the thing worth passing on was never the key holder. It was the moment you decide you can figure something out.

Now I teach carpentry to high schoolers, and I am CTE certified in Carpentry. I built this site so younger kids could start the same way: at a kitchen table, with a parent or teacher nearby and Mr. Spinozzi in their corner.

Here is my why. Every kid should be able to look at a problem, come up with a solution, and use the tools at hand to carry it out. That is the whole sequence. Add confidence and it works everywhere: in the shop, at school, and long after. I know of no better way to train it than through the trades, where the board tells you the truth and the fix is in your own two hands.