PROFESSIONAL
BACKGROUND
After graduating from Lane Technical High
School in Chicago, Illinois, Bill Giese entered the military, serving as a flight
instructor and helicopter pilot for the U.S. Army Air Corps and for the Illinois National
Guard.
Following his military service, Giese found
employment doing precision tool and grinding work. Later, he changed his occupation to
carpenter.
For seventeen years, Giese worked as a
carpenter, building numerous home and commercial buildings from the ground up and doing
custom interior cabinet work. He left the Chicago area in the early 80's and settled in
Northern California where he built his retirement home and a spacious woodshop.
Not long after, Giese began turning bowls.
He's turned more than 500 bowls since he started and his enthusiam for turning continues
to grow.
His bowls are turned from solid blocks of
wood or, in the case of segmented bowls, from pieces of different wood. He uses hardwoods
and softwoods from all over the world, combining color and grain to produce artistic work.
The handsome, finely finished bowls
frequently win first and second place ribbons in the juried shows that he enters.
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