#stephen milton

[haverwood]

Aftermath: Population Zero Stephen Milton USA/Canada, 2008 ★★★ Very soothing.

[haverwood]

Aftermath: Population Zero Stephen Milton USA, 2008

[joekennedy]

Colocation Northwest Expands Bellevue Data Center to One Megawatt

Colocation Northwest Expands Bellevue Data Center to One Megawatt

Bellevue’s Only Public Colocation Data Center Undergoes Significant Upgrade for Multi-Billion Dollar Video Game Publisher

Colocation Northwest, a division of IsoFusion, a provider of Internet access and IT services in the Puget Sound region, announced today it has completed upgrades to its Bellevue data center to allow for one megawatt of service capacity.  The data center, located in Bellevue’s…

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[theportraitureproject]

“If you’re going to build something, build it right.”

Name: Stephen Milton Location: King City, Ontario Occupation: Master Gunsmith

Stephen Milton is pretty sure his parents thought he was a proper nuisance as a child. He always took anything mechanical apart to figure out how it worked.  Before he put it back together he would always make at least one adjustment to improve it. Besides fiddling with mechanical things, Stephen drew, painted and had a passion for shooting.  Growing up in the U.K. countryside, he often hunted birds and rabbits.  He was also fascinated with the inner workings of fine shotguns and rifles. 

His appreciation for art led Stephen to admire the beauty of fine shotguns and rifles.  As a mechanical engineering apprentice, he amazed many of his mentors with how quickly he could solve problems.  But Stephen missed working with guns, so he took a five-year apprenticeship with a gunsmith and eventually decided to branch out on his own as a freelancer. 

He made parts and repaired shotguns and double-barrel rifles for established companies before he emigrated to Canada to start his own business, Precision Arms & Gunsmithing Ltd.  His quality craftsmanship quickly earned him customers. There’s fine detail in every piece that Stephen uses to build the guns – there’s no “close enough” – everything must be precise down to the moisture content in the wood.

It doesn’t stop there. Stephen doesn’t just care about the mechanics of the gun, it has to be built beautifully. Form and function are married together in Stephen’s guns. He loves seeing the finished product and the appreciation of it in the faces of his customers. 

Stephen can’t imagine doing anything else, and he believes that everybody should love what they do. He believes that doing something that you don’t love that pays more is wasting life, and in life sometimes you just have to create your own benefits.