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MAKER: Jason Radcliffe

AGE: 41

BUSINESS: 44Steel

HOW IT STARTED: 鈥淎s soon as you know how to weld, anybody who has something metal-oriented will come up to you,鈥� he says. 

Friends have come to him with broken car bumpers or a dangling exhaust pipes.  He鈥檚 also come to the rescue of belt buckles and trampolines.

FURNITURE IN MUSEUMS (NOT HIS): Radcliffe says he can appreciate the intricate carvings on historic furniture.

鈥淭he look and the amount of work it took to do that is pretty impressive,鈥� he adds.  鈥淚 love going to museums that have actual furniture.  It鈥檚 not something I would do.鈥� 

HIS FURNITURE: 鈥淢odern work is my thing, very minimal,鈥� he says.  鈥淚f I can get rid of anything on a piece of furniture, I will get rid of it.  Flashy is not how I do things.鈥� 

SOME OF IT ISN鈥橳 VERY PRETTY: He often likes to leave in the unpainted natural colors that occur in the steelmaking process.  Sometimes you can even see the welds.

鈥淚t fits really well with the industrial look of Cleveland, all this rawness,鈥� he enthuses.   鈥淪o, that鈥檚 why I try to make everything out of raw.鈥�

HE SAVES 鈥淧RETTY鈥� FOR HIS ARMS: He favors softer images of birds and flower in his tattoos, such as magnolias, a scarlet tanager and a peregrine falcon.  And a few lightning bolts.

GOES HOME DIRTY, BUT HAPPY: 鈥淓verybody wants to go to a tech job, not get themselves dirty.  I come home at the end of the day, and I鈥檓 an absolute mess.  But, I love it.  I wouldn鈥檛 have it any other way.鈥� 

鈥� Making It鈥� is a series of profiles highlighting Northeast Ohioans who make stuff.