One person, solid wood, and a laser. Furniture-shop habits, at keepsake scale. Built one piece at a time, in Ohio.
I build things out of solid wood, and I mark them with a laser.
For years that meant furniture — dressers, tables, cabinets and built-ins. Full-size pieces that have to fit a real room, survive a real household, and still look right years later. That kind of work is unforgiving in a useful way: a drawer either runs true or it doesn't, and a finish either holds up to being lived with or it doesn't. It taught me which parts actually matter and which are just showing off.
Timber Trace USA is where that work gets smaller. Side tables, shelving, boxes, toys, boards and keepsakes, built with the same joinery and the same care, at a size that fits in a home without a delivery truck.
Alongside the woodworking I run a laser. I engrave wood, metal, leather, slate and acrylic, which means a piece can be built and marked under one roof — a name on the underside of a table, a date inside a box lid, a logo across a run of gifts. It also means I can engrave things I didn't build, when the material and the shape will take it.
Almost everything here is made to order, and that's deliberate. If a piece is going to be made one at a time anyway, you may as well choose the wood, the size and the finish. I'd rather build the thing you actually wanted than a near miss.
It's a small shop, and it stays small on purpose. I take a limited number of commissions at a time so each one gets proper attention, I give you an honest timeline before you commit, and I'll tell you plainly when something isn't a good fit for my shop rather than take the order and let you down.
If you have something in mind, send me a message. A photo, a sketch, or a single sentence is enough to start.