My Story

I started woodworking by learning from my father when I was young. We’d tackle various projects around the house and I fell in love with being a maker and a craftsman. Growing up in my family, if we didn’t have it, we’d try to make it. And that creativity I still try to incorporate every day.

As I grew older, the projects became bigger, and the quality improved. Through college and into my career, I picked up new techniques and worked with new materials from set design and construction, to plumbing and exhibit fabrication. While working in an industrial warehouse, it became clear to me just how much wood is scraped in the shipping and day-to-day productivity of society. I started salvaging pallets out of the dumpster and pulling old furniture off the street corner. Underneath those items was beautiful hardwood, just waiting to be reclaimed, upcycled, and put back into service. Much to my benefit, my girlfriend (and now my wife) loved the woodworking I was able to produce, and some would say the early projects I was able to gift her (i.e. reclaimed chestnut winerack) may have helped seal the deal when it came to the proposal! She continues to inspire me and even lend a hand in the shop when projects call for extra sanding and polish!

Today I use the skills and projects I’ve gathered over the past decade or more to make unique woodworking products as sustainably as possible from recycled and reclaimed wood, to live edge pieces that celebrate what nature does on its own. We only have one planet, and everything we have, we owe to it. The least we can do is tread as lightly as possible while we are here.