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By FRANCES BISHOPP
Time*-Democrat Staff Writer
WARRENTON — Harold Gaddis and Tod Copper throughout their long careers with IBM shared more than just a basic knowledge of IBM products and how to sell them.
Beneath the corporate exteriors, the conservative suits and ties and white collar images, were two craftsman who loved to work with their hands and build things out of wood.
Today, who each took early retirement packages from IBM in recent years, have opened up their new business, Taliaferro’s Craft House at 9 N. Fifth St., based on skills carefully honed in their home workshops over the years.
Needless to say, like anyone who opens a business based on a well-loved hobby, they are delighted and enthusiastic about their new venture.
Taliaferro’s Craft House specializes in handmade custom furniture, wall systems, kitchen cabinets, countertops and crafts. The small showroom on Fifth Street has a few of the pieces the two men have made. ' In reality, they can make anything out of any wood in any style. Both men have their own workshops in their homes where they stay continually busy building furniture.
Using woods such as cherry, walnut and oak, both men prefer the colonial style that ranges from Early American to Queen Ann and Chippendale.
It is obvious from the work that both men are perfectionists. Every piece is beautifully crafted and refmished in an antique mellow style, soft to the eye but durable to the touch.
Both are designers as well. Gaddis’s custom kitchen cabinets built out of cherry offer amazing design details that cooks and kitchen users universally would appreciate. He also built an innovative computer desk out of oak, combining various aspects of his computer knowledge into the design. The printer and keyboard
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