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About Me
Hello,
My name is Daniel E. Kemp. I live in Follansbee, West Virginia. A small town in the Northern Panhandle.
I graduated from Brooke High School in 1982. Go Bruins. My favorite class of course was Machine Shop.
They called it Industrial Maintenance. Got a job at a Tool and Die Shop my senior year but hated it. Spent
most of the time cleaning and cutting the owners grass. Went to some other non industrial jobs after that.
Got my Associates Degree from Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics (P.I.A.) in 1991. After a brief marriage,
I moved to California in 1992 to spend some time with my Pop. He lived in a resort town on the Northern
end of Napa Valley. Had a great time but couldn't find any work. Came back to WV and got my CDL
license. Drove truck for a while and saw lots of Interstate. Mostly hauled steel coils to mills east of the
Mississippi. Didn't like being on the road all the time, never had time to do anything. Since then I've
worked for a large manufacturing plant in WV. Started out in the Machine Shop, worked my way up to
foreman. Took a job as the Prototype Machinist for the R & D Dept.for a few years. Now work in the
Tool and Die Dept. We have a large CNC mill and Lathe but Dave and Pete run them. I wanted to learn
how, so I decided to build my own Mill and teach myself. So far so good. My little lathe is next.
