Dr. Josh received a Health professional scholarship

Dr. Josh received a Health professional scholarship from the US Army and lived in Hawaii, Texas, Louisiana and Germany over the course of five years. During each of those stays Dr. Josh learned how each culture used the wood available to them to create furniture and accessories special to them. Each military base also had its own woodworking shop and Dr. Josh Brower was able to become accomplished with a large number of tools which I couldn’t afford on my own. Each woodshop had a dedicated woodworking instructor assigned to it, and he took every opportunity to try woods native in that region while learning the specific way each region fabricated their pieces. He received honorable discharge before moving back to the Midwest, where he grew up, to begin my career in dentistry and woodworking. In the process of moving back Dr. Josh Brower carried a large truckload of red oak, cypress and sweet gum along with my furniture on my way home from Louisiana. Shortly after moving back, He and a couple of other gentlemen started the Siouxland Woodworkers Guild which he was president of for a number of years.

During the same time, Dr. Josh Brower attended a formal apprenticeship in woodworking with a master woodworker, who had previously been foreman of National Woodworks. Dr. Josh Brower continued to make pieces that he liked or other people needed. He went back to Europe shortly after that and learned woodcarving and sculpting in Austria at their National school "buildhauer" program. His education blossomed and he started writing under the "Guild of Master Craftsmen" and published multiple times in American Router, Wood Magazine and American Woodworker. One of the most memorable times with teaching and writing was being invited to Wood Magazine headquarters to teach their staff about the many figures of wood with my children watching. Josh Brower gained love of precision woodworking and fine pieces. With space at a premium everything had to be "special" or it just wasn’t worth taking up the space in your home. Each family would have one plate, fork, knife and cup which were cleaned after each meal. The plate was made of wood and he loved the simplicity of their life and design ideas. In 2006 Dr. Josh Brower received the most technically accomplished award at the Northern Woods Woodworking exhibition through the Minnesota Woodworking Guild for the piece shown. Fine Woodworking Magazine judged and presented the awards. The piece has turned feet, a base carved to appear as a tree with branches holding the top, and a twenty one piece bookmatch of burl veneer that he harvested himself in ash from yard. For more info :- http://www.joshbrower.com/

Dr Josh Brower the dentist, woodworker, tennis player, and father of four.