About Marc

My earliest memories of working with wood are when I was around six years old. I grew up at a time when every dad had their man cave in the garage with all of their tools and projects. My dad was no exception and I spent many hours in the garage watching him work on projects, sometimes I would help him out. I have a vivid memory of the time my brother and I thought it would be a good idea to help dad out while he was at work. We very enthusiastically re-organized his work bench and boy was he surprised when he got home but not in a good way. It was around that time that I built one of my very first little wood projects, a tiny replica of my dad’s workbench. I probably built it to try and re-gain his favor after the workbench incident. I still have the little workbench in my box of memories somewhere.

As I got older my projects got a bit more involved and then the real revelation came when I was in junior high and took Mr. Henry’s shop classes. It was an awesome shop with a wood shop in one large room and a metal shop in the adjacent room. I took both classes and really started to excel with my wood working.

When I got to high school I took Mr. O’Neil’s wood shop class. His shop was even bigger than Mr. Henry’s shop and with more tools too. I have such fond memories of my time in that shop and it was in this shop where I built my first electric guitar, a Gibson style Explorer. By my senior year I was taking five periods of shop and making guitars for Artie, the owner of one of our local music stores called Front Porch Music. I got pretty good at routering the neck slots and pickup cavities, so good that I was doing it freehand without patterns. I really liked the router and it was one of my favorite power tools.

After graduating from high school I found my way into the emerging world of car stereos. I was doing them on my own at the time and then was encouraged to apply at one of the stereo shops in town called Trans Lex. I worked there for a couple of years and then worked at another shop called Audio Plus. While working there I did a lot of very custom work because they were a pretty high end shop. After leaving Audio Plus I continued to do stereo work on my own as American Installations, which I ran out of my garage at my house. I built speaker cabinets, custom consoles and other fabrications as well as overall stereo installations.

Along the way I’ve done many different vocations from media production in television, films, commercials, music videos and training videos. I spent five years working for the Numetal band Korn, worked for Apple in their Genius Bar for a while and now am pursuing my passion for wood working and fabrication full time. It has been an interesting journey so far and I look forward to seeing where this path will lead me in the future ahead.

My ultimate goal for Tucker Industries is to build a one stop shop where we fabricate, renovate, invent, repair, design and dream up ideas that can be brought to market in order to help our fellow inhabitants of this planet. We all are given the gift of life, the real challenge is what are we going to do with it before our time to leave arrives.

Carpe diem