Robert Altig is a retired Video Tele-Education Coordinator in Los Angeles, California. He was introduced to woodturning in 2003 by his brothers in their homeworkshops while on vacation. He fell in love with the beauty of exotic woods and purchased his first lathe shortly thereafter. Since that time he has sought new opportunities to create artistic woodturnings of all kinds.

In 2007, he turned over 100 wooden ballpoint pens which were donated to the Freedom Pen Project. The project sends approximately 16,000 to 20,000 handmade pens to our military members in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Christmas season. The pens are distributed to US military personnel by Chaplains also serving in the area.

Mr. Altig is member of the American Association of Woodturners and the International Associatioin of Penturners.